Harpies (with a soothing harpy melody) | A Mixed Media Art Project (Utilizing KREA)

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*Hounds of Zeus they were called. Dwelling on the name used to identify them, I thought it odd they would be called "hounds". Instantly, this reminded me of an animal that would patrol the bottom landscape, not the air. In Greek Mythology, Harpies were winged-liked creatures under the command of the supreme god of Mount Olympus, Zeus.

Harpies were described as birds with the heads of maidens. Their pale faces resembled fowls of prey hunting for their meals. Long claws protruded from their hands. Roman and Byzantine writers meticulously described these creatures as ugly. However, pottery art and other artifacts depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Ovid described them as human-vultures.

It appeared to me as though each civilization romanticized these creatures and adopted them into their own versions. But the name remained.

The epic and most celebrated story in which the harpies played a role was that of King Phineus of Thrace. Zeus bestowed upon him the gift of prophecy. Angry that Phineus gave away the god's secret plan, Zeus punished him.

Blinded and cast on an island, at his disposal was a buffet of delicious food. However, he starved as the harpies would come and steal the food from his hands. Depicted by later writers in alternate scenarios, the harpies either devoured the food themselves or soiled it making it inedible by cover the food with horrible smelling substances.

This harsh treatment of Phineus continued until the arrival of Jason and the Argonauts that is documented in another epic tale.

Throughout history, their appearance softened to include beautiful and alluring creatures that possessed powers to enthrall mortals.

In later literature, the reference to a harpy was meant to convey the personality of a female, whether she be an overbearing person or one with a sharp tongue and quick condescending personalities or reactions to situations.

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For my current mixed media art project, I wanted to explore the mysterious creatures named "Harpies". I loved Greek Mythology, and the harpies piqued my interest. In reading about the romantic habits of Zeus, I could only envision them as beautiful female creatures. Designing the Harpies was a fun exercise by including several of my pure fractals together with stable diffusion images and images created with KREA.

The thumbnail version of the Harpy I created in KREA.

A version I produced in Canva titled "Harpy of the Western Lands" was to share a sharper, more harsher background using the stable diffusion images. I then finished the project im Canva. I envisioned utilizing this version for filtering purposes in KREA.

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For variety, I wanted to see how a harpy would look utilizing the program KREA. As a base image, I input my StarryAI image I prepared for the mixed media art project above "Harpy of the Western Lands".

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I applied a KREA text description:
"Female brown-skinned harpy."
then,
specific KREA filters to produce various versions. I love the impact on the backgrounds in adding shading, texture, facial features, and different wing appliques.

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KREA Result:
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Other KREA filters produced the following variations:

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ENJOY the melody that reminds me of a harpy.


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Images I included in my project:

StarryAI Text input:
"Female Harpy."

Style: Portrait

StarryAI Result:
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StarryAI Text Input:
"Rebirth of a phoenix."

Style: Fantasy

StarryAI Result:
StarryAI--RebirthOfAPhoenix-Image2.webp

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Pure fractal titled "Chafing" ~ Pure fractal titled "Colorful Flower Stem" ~ Pure fractal titled "Red Crystals" ~ Pure fractal titled "Yellow Matter" ~ White flower Contributed to the #LIL by @tejimundo

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For my mixed media art project titled "Harpy of the Western Lands" I created in Canva, I uploaded the images above to blend them. I leave with you my procedures which begin with a blank, white canvas. I then add layers of elements in accordance with my upgraded Annual Pro Membership that includes tools to remove backgrounds, resize, filter, duplicate, and reposition items as required. Perhaps of all the tools, the ability to remove backgrounds thereby creating transparencies of the images is crucial to the blending process.

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Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media art project.

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Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.

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SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
h) What is Stable Diffusion? StarryAI.Com. Online at: https://starryai.com/stable-diffusion

1 What is a Harpy? Wikipedia. Online at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy

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Great 💯👍 keep it up

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Hello @moaz-sabir. Thanks for ytour visit and lovely compliment for my project. I appreciate it and the fact that you liked my design. I appreciate your engagement and support.

Take care and have a good weekend. Stay safe.

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Absolutely stunning work my friend I really enjoy what you do 🤗

I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead ✌🏾👊🏾🤗

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I'm pleased you found this project to your liking. Thanks so much @kgakakillerg for stopping by. I appreciate it.

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Yes I really enjoyed it my friend 🤗

You are always welcome 🤗

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Really beautiful work! That came out amazing! I haven't thought about the word harpy in years, and in supernatural TV shows they never portrayed like that. I did love the music, very soothing, fitting of the name. Thanks, I enjoyed your post!

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I'm pleased you liked how this project turned out. I love fantasy and all the creatures known to exist in that realm. I was hoping the music blended well with the images. Thanks so much for your visit and lovely compliment. I appreciate your support of my content.

Take care and have a good rest of your weekend.

!LADY

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Hello, @justclickindiva beautiful work you achieved, I love it

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Thanks so much @eve66 for taking time to stop by and view my project. I loved working on this one with the harpies. I appreciate your lovely compliment and support. Take care.

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@justclickindiva, I paid out 0.342 HIVE and 0.061 HBD to reward 5 comments in this discussion thread.

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Awesome. Now I see how the program works. I was wondering about the mechanics. Now, since there's only a 3 day window, I'll publish a post announcing my use of CommentRewarder and what my readers need to do to participate.

Thanks so much for this wonderful program. Much appreciated.

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