Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Blu Moonwall’s [Msblu Moonwall] Yennefer has all the bright, happy colors I associate with a “Manic Pixie Dreamgirl” but Yennefer has none of those qualities. Her gaze is intense and powerful, mesmerizing. She is fierce, a warrior, and just the opposite in every way from the fragile flowers of manic pixiedom. I love that Blu Moonwall is using bright and bold colors with fierce and powerful characters. She really commits with each and every picture.
Blu is bullish on Second Life. To see why, click here:
OK, so maybe that was a bad pun, but I love “Toreador.” It’s another example of going all in on an idea. The hair, the fan, the pose. It’s the Paso Doble, the dance of the matador and cape. For a great introduction to the Paso Doble, this scene from Strictly Ballroom is a must. In this picture, she seems to be standing on a path in the Retiro in Madrid, where autumn color comes alive. I’ve only been there in the spring, but I can imagine the rich fall colors that bring a rich golden light behind her.
Commenting on “Helvete” Blu wrote “sometimes you just want to look like a scary badass.” Mission accomplished. Helvete is Hell in Swedish and Norwegian, so I am guessing this is Loki’s daughter Hel. I love that she gives us a barren landscape, the trees dead or dormant. Snorri Sturluson wrote about Hel in the Gylfaginning. Blu, I think, captured her well.
Hel he cast into Niflheim, and gave to her power over nine worlds, to apportion all abodes among those that were sent to her: that is, men dead of sickness or of old age. She has great possessions there; her walls are exceeding high and her gates great. Her hall is called Sleet-Cold; her dish, Hunger; Famine is her knife; Idler, her thrall; Sloven, her maidservant; Pit of Stumbling, her threshold, by which one enters; Disease, her bed; Gleaming Bale, her bed-hangings. She is half blue-black and half flesh-color (by which she is easily recognized), and very lowering and fierce.
Blu Moonwall’s photostream is fascinating. It seems as though every avatar is new and unique with a background that perfectly complements the idea or story she conveys. She is a blogger and provides credits directly in her picture descriptions. If you love new and unique avatars, definitely click her Follow button.
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