Mercury Rising

Title:	Mercury Rising
Genre:
Mediums:	Photoshop
For Sale:	NFS
Views:	2026
Posted:	3/13/2014
Status:	Unpublished

Location: Germany

Long time no talk here, meh - the past weeks were really busy with commissions, convention preparations and workshop preparations...

About this piece:
Mercury, Latin: Mercurius is a major Roman god, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves he is also the guide of souls to the underworld.

Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes (talaria) and a winged hat (petasos), and carrying the caduceus, a herald' s staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo' s gift to Hermes.

This is a piece I did for the " Ten-by-Fotolia" competition. Learned a lot and was so much fun to do.

It did not win, was probably not mainstream enough - even though I thought " girl-with-wing-on-heads" is such a mainstream topic over here that it at least has a chance... However, that was the best piece I could get out of the stock images they´ ve given out to use. (At least 3 had to be used)

The rest of the used stock is from my own and fractals rendered in Mandelbulb3d. Photoshop, Cintiq, 15 hours.