White Nine Tailed Fox

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Jiu Wei Hu (Nine-Tail Fox) is a creature spoken of in the ancient Chinese mythological bestiary, the Shan Hai Jing. This creature resides upon the Green Hills Mountain, amid the jade and cinnabar, and is a fierce man-eating beast. The commentary also mentioned a story of Yu the Great (the founder and progenitor of the legendary Xia Dynasty, China's supposed first dynasty over 4000 years ago). Yu sought an omen that he would marry, and as he rode through the hills, he caught sight of a white nine-tailed fox. This was the sign that he had been searching for, and he took it to mean success. Nine tailed foxes were thought to be auspicious creatures.
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Watercolor
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Mar 6, 11
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    Stephanie Pui-Mun Law has been painting fantastic otherworlds from early childhood, though her art career did not begin until 1998 when she graduated from a program of Computer Science. After three years of programming for a software company by day and rushing home to paint into the midnight hours, she left the world of typed logic and numbers, for painted worlds of dreams and the fae. Her illustrations have been for various game and publishing clients, including Wizards of the Coast, HarperCollins, LUNA Books, Tachyon Books, White Wolf, Alderac Entertainment, and Green Ronin. She has authored and illustrated “Dreamscapes, Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds with Watercolor” (2008, North Light Books), a book on watercolor technique for fantasy, and a sequel to be released in 2010. She is also the creator of the Shadowscapes Tarot deck (Llewellyn Publishing, 2010).


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