This painting was also edited for Digital Art annual book entry.

A wife of a Finnish land slave. To her and her husband the sunset can bring but only temporality relief. Inspired by "Under the North Star" by Väinö Linna (the book is considered a classic in Finland with print runs into hundreds of thousands).

Personal piece, done as a critiqued work for my school.

For more background information and the making of, please see my WIP here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=4772667#post4772667

Separate photo references used for the face (some of her features modified), body, hands, pendant and the background. Composition, theme and the colours are all out of my own head. My work process did not include tracing, manipulating or painting over photos.

Please enjoy :)