This is my entry to the wintercontest hosted by:     

The theme was:

• Winter: Make an Art Nouveau work based on the season of winter
  
  I decided to portray Yuki-Onna or Snow-Woman.
  Since she is a snow and winter-demon-spirit!

Yuki-onna appears on snowy nights as a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair and blue lips.
Sometimes she is said to wear a white kimono. Some legends describe her as nude, with only her face and hair standing out against the snow.

What Yuki-onna is after varies from tale to tale. Sometimes she is simply satisfied to see a victim die. Other times, she is more vampiric,
draining her victims' blood or "life force." She occasionally takes on a succubus-like manner, preying on weak-willed men to drain or freeze them through sex or a kiss.

Some legends say the Yuki-onna, being associated with winter and snowstorms, is the spirit of someone who perished in the snow.
She is at the same time beautiful and serene, yet ruthless in killing unsuspecting mortals. Until the 18th century, she was almost uniformly portrayed as evil.


  


I hope you like it, tell me what you think!

I added in some winter berries too, Juniper berries and those red things


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Black fineliner, watercolor, gold, black & white ink.