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St. Gereon by `ursulav:iconursulav:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Surreal

©2009 `ursulav
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The canonical St. Gereon was a martyred soldier who had his head chopped off. In the usual perverse way of saints, this makes him the patron in charge of migraine headaches (you invoke him to ward them off.)

I still don't know what this thing is, but I think its head hurts.

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Another of the uber mixed media, digital/traditional pieces. (They start digitally, get printed, sealed to board, and worked over with a variety of other media.) The original is 12 x 16 and for sale, prints can be ordered directly from Red Wombat Studio at [link]

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~NrgRush May 28, 2009, 6:54:43 AM
St.Gereon will be called on many-a-time in this household!! Hopefully you know of a saint for toothache as well?
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~Rathunta May 28, 2009, 6:59:54 AM
Hope he's not a Walrus then!

Gereon looks really cute in a weird way. A made up species?

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　 ／l、
ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７
　l、ﾞ ~ヽ
　じしf_, )ノ

Aww.
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~Servitor2152 May 28, 2009, 7:00:06 AM
Initially I thought St. Gereon was rubbing his eyes, like he was crying or something. Then I realized he was actually pulling on his face.

... These things are still both adorable and profoundly disturbing.

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"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those that prosper truly judge what is sane." -- Anon.
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~lhhog May 28, 2009, 7:01:17 AM
Why are his ribs showing?
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=Karithina May 28, 2009, 7:02:08 AM
Oh just in time, I have a headache too xD

That's such a curious technique, creating them digitally and then applying the traditional medium... Maybe I just don't think outside the box enough but before then I assumed all mixed media pieces were digitally edited after traditional creation xD

I love it :heart:

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Sten, Dragon Age: Origins, 2009
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=ignavius May 28, 2009, 7:15:14 AM
specifically looks liek his eyes hurt, or he's trying to find them...

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~Apollyna May 28, 2009, 7:17:07 AM
Dude. D;

I know, pointlessa comment, but that's all I can say.
x_x

I dig the way he's pulling at his nonexistant eyes. :'O

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~bootheel May 28, 2009, 7:29:26 AM
This one is profoundly less disturbing primarily because I look at it and go "YES I HAVE FELT EXACTLY LIKE THAT."

Which may say more about migraines than about the piece itself.

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--Leslie
Two-Bit Jeremiah in Chuck Taylors
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~DarkElfMiFaien May 28, 2009, 7:44:36 AM
Oh I'm quite familiar with this saint. On good days he gives my Naproxen pills an extra boost...

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The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued

~~Robert Frost, "Dust of Snow," 1923
:icontherealmizua:
~therealmizua May 28, 2009, 7:54:10 AM
if you're thinking what I'm thinking... LOL

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"If you ever get reincarnated as a puppy, I'll kick you." -- Darryl
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