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In a Pre-Raphaelite mood a while back, I cooked up this image, based on an Indian version of the Bluebeard story. (You know Bluebeard. He tells his new wife: "Don't open this door. This door. Right here. See this door? This one. With the bright...shiny...handle...Oh, by the way, I'm leaving town, here's the key. Don't open it, now. Remember." To no one's great surprise, she opens the door and find the bodies of the six previous wives.) In the Indian version, however, a woman marries a tiger, and I always thought the tiger got the short end of the stick. Gee. He eats people? Well, he's a frickin' TIGER! What did you expect?! How many vegan tigers do you know? Idiot. So when I painted this, my sympathy was entirely with the tiger, which is why he has a sort've besotted expression, and there's something a little malicious in the woman's smile.

Painter, photoshop, pencil.
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~Guilrel Feb 25, 2013
So this is the very first picture of the "tiger wife."
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~shift1085 Jul 6, 2011
i love the forest background!
a black tiger? hmm....a little bit of a dark side to him, huh? lol
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Mood: Delighted ~PaulEberhardt Mar 31, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Heh! Cool! I'm doing a webcomic with a very similar theme - although it's got nothing to do with Indian legends.
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=xxStolen-soulsxx Oct 19, 2010
it's a melanistic tiger!!
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~Medlilove Jul 24, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
stunning!
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!Asha1974 May 31, 2010
LOVE the whole concept!!!!
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~Aeslynn676 Sep 13, 2009
Reminds me of a story I heard of a tiger winning a bet with a poor gambler, and in return the gambler had nothing to give but his daughter's hand. The story went that the daughter fell in love with the tiger, and instead of the tiger turning into a prince or eating her he instead slowly licked her skin, and every lick turned her skin into a tiger's pelt.
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~Olaunis Jun 3, 2008
Oooh! Alma Tadema revisited!!! O_____O Amazing!!!
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~Ankhorite Feb 21, 2008
::: all swoony for the besotted tiger :::

Oh, tall, dark, and handsome...

Her gown reminds me of "Flaming June."
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~str4yk1tt3n Jan 1, 2008
Gorgeous. And the expressions are fantastic.
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