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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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~NemotheDreamer Aug 16, 2007  Student Traditional Artist
Wow.. this is BEAUTIFUL! I especially love how you use the expressions.. but poor tiger... :(
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~graceia Jun 25, 2007  Student Digital Artist
Its all beautiful! The background is terrific, and I love the little frog. n_n
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~jjferrit Jun 10, 2007  Professional Filmographer
i've read a version of that. the bloody chamber by angela carter. she also wrote one called 'the tiger's bride' but its a different story. i recomend her, she rocks
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~cilsketch Aug 26, 2006
Very adorable. Oh what's this! A frog I see? xD
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~akagi-chan Feb 24, 2006
a black tiger... interesting choice in coloring of him. usually people use orange or white, white if they want to be more regal. makes me wonder if there's some sort of hiden meaning behind the coloring.
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*FuzzyYak Jan 12, 2005  Hobbyist Photographer
teehee... and, of course, there's a frog in it! :D
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~byrnstar Dec 1, 2004
Lovely! I adore the jungle background - it's fantastic, gives a real feeling of depth. And a black tiger isn't something you see a lot, given how many black-othercritters are done in art. He has the same distracted expression my cat gets when he's either going to make his 'ewww' face, or start nibbling. :laugh:
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~IrishRose85 Sep 16, 2004
my god this is beautiful I love the black tiger and her dress is so vibrant against the back ground your work is amazing!
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~Evil-Urd Aug 29, 2004
as in all your pictures, this takes my breath away, aww the tiger I want to hug him and cuddle :glomp: but I dont know if his bride will allow it :XD:
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~DeathStorm Aug 22, 2004
Beautiful pic. I love her outfit (the folds and colors are great) and the expressions are perfect, the chick looks like she's plotting. Love the description too, because when I picture "Tiger" I don't necessarily picture yoga-meditating-soccer mom-vegan. That's just a strange mental image...
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