FickiFickiPanamaCity02

This is a piece I did for an exhibition at a party (which explains the title of the deviation), but mainly for fun. The original idea to do some kind of russian orthodox icon painting came from a friend of mine, who wanted to then screen print this on wood. He still wants to do it, but not in time for the party, so here's the digital version for now.

There's a whole back story to the character, which one might be able to read off of her tattoos, if one is familiar with russian prison tattoos. Or, at least as familiar as one can be after doing some research on the net.

The print format is quite large, so here are some close ups of the tattoos:
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Done in Photoshop.
I used a stock texture by for the cracked effect on the background, as well as a gold texture by .