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| Wendigo in the Snow Acrylic Painting by Alex Ariza 2023 |
The Wendigo is a creature from Native American folklore, specifically the Algonquians. The Wendigo represented insatiable greed, winter, and famine. It is traditionally depicted as a gaunt giant with icy features, which this painting captures by elongating the creature's limbs and placing it in a gray and snowy winter setting. In this acrylic painting by Alex Ariza, the Wendigo has just killed a deer biting down on its neck. The Wendigo has a sickly appearance meant to represent famine. It has antlers similar to a deer. The body of the Wendigo is dark and covered in a brown fur. The snow has small drops of blood spilled from the deer. The frost covered evergreen trees surround the scene peacefully below a mountain. The sky is overcast and snowy.
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| Detail of Wendigo Painting by Alex Ariza |
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