Ktisis, the personification of donation or foundation.
The mosaic is from the 500s and it's probably of North African origin.
The concept she represents is very intriguing to me. Did they used
to put mosaics of her into buildings as a form of "thanks" to those who gave
the money to make the building? Is money ( the donation) to
the ones who worked for the buildings to be built what foundation is
to a building? There's not much information on the matter
from what I can find online.
This took me an unjustifiably long time
to finish but I can say with joy that I'm
100% satisfied with it. It's about spring.
I once again I dipped my toes into drawing folk costumes, this time with
a cypriot donkey girl from the Karpas region.The patterns used as
decoration are inspired by textiles from Cyprus.
Paraskevi (again) and that character
whose name I will change soon.
Sharing information about certain projects is hard
plus I like keeping some things mysterious
on purpose. I hope people don't think
I'm just mashing random things together
with no intentions.
I'm happy about the composition but I wish
I had used more than 1 brush to draw this.