How To Draw A Siren Greek Mythology

The Sirens were unsafe, still cute creatures, portrayed every bit femme fatales. The three Sirens that were written about the well-nigh in Greek mythology were Pisinoe, Aglaope and Thelxiepi, all daughters of the river god, Archelous. They were sisters that lured sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky declension of their isle. All locations were surrounded past cliffs and rocks and the song of the Sirens was irresistible. Sailors would canvass their boats beyong the unpassable reefs to reach the Sirens, which destroyed their boats.

The Greeks portrayed the Sirens in their 'meadow starred with flowers' and not every bit bounding main deities. I of them played the lyre, 1 played the flute and another one sang. Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility, turned the Sirens into half-women, half-bird creatures when the three failed to salvage Demeter's daughrter, Persephone. Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld, when he was seekign a wife.

Sirens were believed to combine women and birds in diverse ways. In early on Greek art, they were represented every bit birds with womens heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Later they were represented as seductive women with bird legs and with or without wings. In the 10th century, there was a mixed view. They were portrayed equally birds from the chest up and women from the chest down and were also viewed equally lilliputian birds with womens faces. Later on, Sirens were depicted equally beautiful women, whose bodies and voices were seductive. Birds were chosen because of their cute voices.

Odysseus was tempted by the Sirens, just Odysseus ensured that his crew filled their ears with wax to cake out the sound. They tied Odysseus to the mast of the boat and so he could hear the vocal, but exist unable to swim to them. Jason and Argonauts were also saved considering they had Orpheus, a talented musician, on lath with them. He played music that was even more cute, so the sailors hardly heard the audio of the Sirens.


Art and Myth in Ancient Hellenic republic past T. H. Carpenter. Folio 240 - 241

Sirens were blighted to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to laissez passer by them.

Paintings:

Championship: Fisherman and the Siren
ARTIST: Knut Ekwall
DATE: Approx. 1870

This painting shows a beautiful Siren luring a fisherman into the h2o, to his death. She has very long, ruddy hair and is another creature who appears to be naked to assistance with seduction.

ARTIST: Viktor Vasnetsov

This painting shows 2 Siren's who are singing their beautiful song to lure fisherman to their deaths. This epitome shows ii birds with large female heads. They both seem to be wearing crowns, showing they are of wealth or importance. They are also wearing jewellery consisting of a necklace and earrings which also helps to portray themselves as cute creatures.

Films / Television Series:

Pic - 'Siren'

2022

This film is about friends who go sailing through the sea for a relaxing weekend and come up beyond a lady trapped upon an island. They desire to rescue her, but do not realise that she is, in fact, a Siren. They do everything they can to get off the island, but her sugariness song has the power to hypnotise them.

Motion-picture show - 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'

2022

During the Renaissance era, there was belief that Siren's were actually mermaids. Beneath is a clip from Pirates of the Caribbean area, where they visited an island and were attacked by, Siren similar, mermaids.

Books:

TITLE: The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Twelvemonth: First volume which tells the myth. Unknown date due to age.

Championship: Surface (Siren's Lullaby #ane)

AUTHOR: Jody Morse & Jayme Morse

Twelvemonth: 2022

TITLE: Siren's Storm

Writer: Lisa Papademetriou

YEAR: 2022

Photography:

TITLE: The Siren
Photographer: Ryan Bater

This photo shows a beautiful lady sitting by water. Her legs are painted brown which symbolises the bottom bird half. Her eye makeup is blueish, notwithstanding looks very eerie and strong. Her hair is long and sleeked back with h2o. This model is besides topless, showing off a lot of flesh. The eye makeup and brown legs alloy nicely with the colourings in the water.

Championship: Song to the Siren on Behance

Lensman: Zhang Jingna

DATE: 2022

MAKEUP: Dewi Mahoney

Hair: Wai Fun

Conjugal shoot for Singapore Brides

This photo shows a beautiful lady effortlessly dressed in a hymeneals gown on a shore. The blue jewellery contrasts well with the thought of an sea behind her. She has long, moisture, wavy hair with quite natural looking brown eyeshadow.

Over again, this photo shows two women dressed in wedding gowns on the shore. There is lots of mankind on show, sticking to the seductive theme. The original Siren expect is to have pretty girls singing a beautiful song to lure men. I actually feel that this shoot works nicely with the overall look and conept of the original Greek myth.

I accept conducted a test shoot where I practical makeup and hair skills to create my own first version of a Siren. I firstly wanted to recreate her paradigm without use use of wings and feathers, which i practice like. And then again, it's non obvious that she is a Siren without these. I feel that the center makeup works nicely with her character as it's very pretty and enticing, and works well in h2o scenary. Where a Siren'due south head is a woman and the body is a bird, I do not observe it necesary to apply bird like makeup to her face. I wanted to stick to the gunkhole theme with her outfit, so she is wearing rope around her neck equally a prop. I have chosen for her to wear a blackness sequined top, as i feel sequins are one of the better ways to resemble water in a modern style. Due to Siren'south being very seductive, I want to keep lots of flesh on show.