10″ × 10″ … Oil on stretched canvas. The reference is from a fellow artist on Deviantart … She’s from Romania and usually does surreal art using photoshop to put together various photos when she’s not taking striking photos of herself.

She titled this shot " Fearless "

but when I saw it ….. even though I’m not a religious man …. all I could envision was the story of Mary in the Bible after she had been visited by the Angel Gabriel and told that she would conceive a son … but not any son, the son of God. Hence the title.

Ironically …. Her name is Maria