Sun and Ice

Gouache paint rough draft of my Color & Design term project. The final version will be much more detailed in those large flat-color areas and will have writing in Old Norse all around the outside band--"ice we call the broad bridge, the blind man must be led / the sun is the light of the world, I bow to the divine decree" from the rune poem. I've always associated Isa with Hodur and Sowilo, the siegrune, with Baldur.

The painting, as it always is with me, is Baldur in death and Hodur paying ransom, in the difficult time before their reunion in Hel and Hodur's forgiveness.

The final piece is going to be on my hausaltar, when it gets done to my satisfaction.