When I came across the smirking picture on the cover image of cobweb-stock's black prince pack [link] , it struck me as very conniving and sneaky. And that in turn reminded me of the character Iago in Shakespeare's play "Othello."

SO I made a manip based on the story of Othello. There is color symbolism in my image: Othello (played wonderfully by ) is kinda green because of his raging jealousy. Iago (from the talented ) and the image of Desdemona "cheating" on Othello with Cassio (the couple is from ) are red because in the play Iago is a cruel and plain evil man, and the story about Desdemona cheating is a lie. And Desdemona herself (played by the exquisite is gray and white, because she is pure: she's an innocent victim of Iago's cruelty and her husband Othello's horrific temper.

(I think this entire play could have been avoided if Othello had ASKED Desdemona if she was cheating on him. Then they could have cleared things up real quick and the only one who dies would be Iago. I mean COME ON! lol Good marriages are built on communication. If you don't have any it's no wonder Othello's and Desi's marriage fell apart so quickly! I mean, Othello offed his wife with only some well-placed lies and a well-placed hankerchief as evidence! Dude, he may be a general, but man. Can anyone say anger management? haha Sorry if that went too far: I do love my Shakespeare stories. I'm just playing around, but I do find it amusing.)

There are lines from the play in the image too. I got them from a verision of the play I found at this cool site: [link]

AND the curtain-like background is from and the wonderful brushes are from [link] and [link] , both by the amazing brush-meister