Black Swan

Black Swan
5x7 watercolor, gouache,pencils for details on Arches artist paper.

In the Swan Lake story/ballet Odile the Black Swan is the evil twin
of princess Odette (White Swan) she seduces and tricks prince Siegfried into being
unfaithful to Odette,when the prince realizes Odile is not Odette
it’s too late and he has cursed Odette to be a swan forever.</i>


I wanted to paint her in water as well to go set with my swan lake (white swan) painting,transforming herself in a swan/evil black bird.I'm not one to paint really evil images or characters
but i wanted her to have a bit of a gothic look to her.




My second painting in the swan lake story/ballet you can view
Swan Lake here
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Beautiful pose reference my friend Lena who i used for swan lake as well, her pool shots were perfect for what i had in mind.Thanks Lena