Kristen Maslanka's Fantastic Realities

Recently, I purchased " The Whole Seed Catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds 2018." Every page is filled with colorful and detailed photographs of fruits and vegetables galore. I decided to challenge myself and create a creature a day inspired by one photograph a page. I started a little timidly, with more loose sketches, then honed  into creating one creature each challenge. This has been an inspiring challege, and something I intend to continue and learn from. (( As an added bonus I'm learning more about Botanics!))

October 20th was Jackal and October 21'st was Demigod, which I thought quite apropos! Firstly, I adore jackals, and secondly, I adore the jackal-headed god Anubis. When I was younger a friend of mine had a birthday at Universal Studios where they had just put in a Mummy walkthrough haunted-house type thing. My friends and I decided to dare to tackle going through it by playing our roleplay characters and making a game of it.  W e were young and thus very easily scared. The 'spookers' jumped out at us and chased us down the hall, lights flickered and screams from people we'd never met echoed down the halls.  However, we had an obsession with dogs and mythology and frequently brought her pups as characters in our roleplaying. Because of that we looked to the Anubis statues to "guide us" we larped our way out of that haunted house, following Anubis as our guide. What would have been a maze, fortunately, wasn't for us because the Anubis statues appare...