A co-worker and I have started having monthly artings, where one of us picks the topic, and we both produce something. This month's (well, last month's) was "Poetry." I decided to show all 9 muses, since they've all to do with various flavours of poetry.
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Calliope - epic poetry - conferring over tome with Clio [wolf, female, gold crown]
Clio - History - conferring with Calliope [horse, male, scroll, laurel wreath]
Erato - love poetry - Lute/lyre [cow, female, lute, crown of roses]
Euterpe - lyric poetry - flute [deer, male, flute]
Melpmone - tragedy - singing, tragic mask leaning against wall behind [donkey, male, tragic mask, cypress crown, knife in hand]
Polyhymnia - sacred poetry - sitting on wall, serious, finger-to-mouth in thought [rhino, male, pensive expression, long cloak]
Terpsichore - dance - dancing (slowly) [fox, female]
Thalia - comedy/pastoral poetry - holding comic mask, waiting for turn [goat, female, comic mask, bugle or shepherd's staff]
Urania - astronomy - holding globe to ear, listening, head cocked, looking up [crow, male, globe in left hand, star-embroidered cloak]
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This is the first sketch I did of all of them together.