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A Grimm tale awaites you...

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A drop of blood bloomed on her fingertip and like a petal falling from a rose, Briar's eyelids slipped closed. Dreams, dark and tangled, ensnared her as the spindle and wheel fell to pieces, only to grow again into a thick thorny hedge protecting the sleeping princess from all who would disturb her slumber...

If I were ever going to do the cover of a book of retold fairytales, I'd want it to be something like this. Something dark, lovely, and a little twisted.

Loosely referenced from the lovely *faestock [link]

I screencapped this one, so a video time lapse may be forthcoming.
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~Hottie2cool Feb 8, 2012
THis makes me think of Spindle's End, an amazing re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, written by Robin McKinley.
It's absolutely stunning.

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"A woman's like a bag of tea, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."~~Eleanor Roosevelt
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~Safier11 Dec 21, 2011
~nods~
This reminds me of the book Green Angel.
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~Disneylyric Nov 22, 2011
Hair on thorns. This could be problematic.
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Mood: Wow! ~ElusiveDreams07 Sep 12, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
This reminds me a lot of the book Green Angel. Have you read it? I read it a long time ago so I don't remember if it was really good, but I remember really liking it and this image captures a lot of what the story was about.

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"And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
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~Abbyanna Aug 17, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Beautiful work. :)
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~minako-chan87 Mar 26, 2011
Amazing...
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Mood: Love ~TenchuKiller Jan 3, 2011
you should do a full body picture of this i just love it so much
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Mood: Love ~TenchuKiller Jan 3, 2011
most beautiful i love it a top job
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~RoguePanda81 Jan 25, 2010
Your gallery is lovely, but this one caught my eye in particular - this almost looks like her hair itself is the source of the thorny bush - lovely twist on the old story
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~Cecili-lue Nov 30, 2009
She is amazing, like coming from another planet and yet, so so human. I love her!
Great job!
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