Lorelei - Ich singe dir ein (leidvolles) Lied

This is my entry for My fav myth, fairytale, legend-CONTEST at myths-and-fantasy

The myth about Lorelei goes that in Germany at the river Rhein these sits a beautiful woman on a high rock and she sings a song so sorrowful, lovely and enchanting that all the sailsmen in their ships and boats cannot help but look up and be entranced by her. Therefore they do not see the sharp rocks in the river and the shallow bits, and their ships crash and sink and few survive.

More about the myth of Lorelei en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei



My goal here was to make Lorelei seem one with nature, because in the tale it suggests that the singing of her actually just comes from the wind and a waterfall that rushes down the rock.
So I let her hair flow in the wind and become to a waterfall.
I also wanted to work with contrasts and make the landscape look peaceful but the river somewhat stormy and dangerous. I'm not entierly satisfied with the river there (it still looks too calm in my opinion), but well...

Some more of my thoughts about this picture can be read here: svalaw.deviantart.com/journal/…