Is this Netjer the encircling Nut, Mut? Sekhmet? Or Nit (aka Neith)?
"Sharpie" pen on 8.5 x 11in sketching paper, all the flaws left in!
Julia looked at this drawing and thought of Nit (aka Neith). Wikipedia notes: Proclus (412–485 AD) wrote that the adyton of the temple of Neith in Sais (of which nothing now remains) carried the following inscription: I am the things that are, that will be, and that have been. No one has ever laid open the garment by which I am concealed. The fruit which I brought forth was the sun.[5]
I had quite a process deciding how to color this. I first experimented with cool tones, as an inscription from the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Iunyt/Latopolis says:
You are the watery expanse,
But the watery colors didn't please me. So I tried a fully warm toned version, and liked that better. But I wasn't sure. So I tried a mixed version, but didn't really like that. I asked around for opinions; some liked the warm, some liked the mixed.
I realized that what I really liked was the warm sunset (or sunrise) toned sky, so I made a mixed version, keeping that. Better, but still not quite right. I played with the colors a bit more and then finally had a template with which I was pleased!
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