This week was
#folktaleweek 😊, here's my piece for day 3 with the prompt star. It's a Greek mythology tale, about Gaia, Scorpius and Orion.
Orion the hunter slayed many animals, he boasted that he was going to kill all the animals on earth, this angered Gaia, the goddess of nature, so she sent a giant scorpion called Scorpius to stop Orion. A big battle comenced, Orion laughed with arrogance, thinking nothing could stop him, but everything he tried could not defeat Scorpius. Orion panicked and went to flee, this allowed Scorpius to take his chance and sting him with his tail, killing Orion and saving the animals. Too show gratitude to Scorpius and to show Orion's shame, Gaia put them in the stars for all to see.
Orion and Scorpius are at opposite sides of the celestial sphere, when Scorpius rises in the east, Orion sets in the West, these two enemies are never in the sky together and making it appear that Orion is always fleeing from Scorpius for eternity.
There are many tales about Orion and Scorpius, some say Artemis sends the scorpion, some say Orion stepped on a scorpion, but I quite liked the Gaia story.
I was only able to join in with two prompts this year, but hopefully I'll be able to do the whole week next time 🤞😊. Thank you
@folktaleweek , I look forward to joining in next November 😊💚.
Happy creating and have a great Sunday 😊💚.
P.s a little tip, I used canson moulin du Roy paper for this piece, it's very good for holding a lot of water and is quite tough i.e you can wipe paint off etc, but it will tare if you use watercolour masking fluid. I used the Winsor and Newton masking fluid and unfortunately it took the top layer of paper off, so it was then very bitty when applying paint, so not a paper to use with masking fluids.
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