Cu Chulainn

(Death's Harbinger, C.nick Arach, 2012)

This is a depiction of the death of the Irish hero Cù Chulainn, Cù Chulainn was a feroucious fighter so much so that no one believed him dead until a raven appeared. Cù Chulainn's name comes from an incident in his youth when he killed a gaurd dog belonging to Culann, to make up for the death the then Sétanta changed his name and became the hound (Cù) of Culann gaurding Culann's house until a replacement could be trained. Because of that name sake Cù Chulainn has a geas (a taboo) placed on him forbidding him from eating dog meat, it is the breaking of this geis that marks the beginning of Cù Chulainn's death.

 C.nick Arach

The Weighing of the Brain

Your brain is made up of two hemispheres a left and a right, these sides of the brain control different functions. It is the difference between literal and contextual, exact and approximate, optimism and pessimism.

Why have I opened a post this way? Because my sketch depicts a judging of the hemispheres. It's bare bones right now but when I paint it, I hope to base the figures off the different gods and goddesses that control logic, wisdom and creativity, inspiration.

(The Weighing of the Hemispheres, C.nick Arach, 2010)

C.nick Arach