And finally, the third and last installment to my Cupid and Psyche Roman Wall Paintings Chipping Off In Strategic Places papercraft series. What’s been going on since the previous installments…

After Cupid left her in the lurch, Psyche tricked her mean sisters into jumping off a cliff and then wandered around moping. The other goddesses all tell her to go and talk to Venus, see if she can’t smooth this whole disagreement out. Venus is more interested in making Psyche do nonsensical, impossible, or deadly chores like sorting out grains of rice or getting fleece from homicidal sheep. Every time some kind animal or somesuch comes to Psyche’s aid, and what should have been impossible is done in no time. Venus finally is tired of Psyche always mysteriously triumphing, and tells her to go down to the underworld to gather some of Proserpina’s beauty in a box. Psyche is about to jump off a tower to kill herself and get the one-way ticket down when THE TOWER tells her “DON’T JUMP YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR also I know the secret non-deadly way to the underworld and also here are all the handy tips you’ll need, bring double fare for the ferryman, double treats for Cerberus, and don’t eat anything ok you go you crazy lovebird.” What a knowledgeable pile of stones. Anyway Psyche does everything perfectly and is on her way back with the box when she gets CURIOUS. She peeks into the box but OH NO it isn’t beauty at all, it’s an instant sleeping spell and Psyche is out like a light. Cupid has meanwhile gotten over himself and swoops down to wake her up, gently chastise her for her insatiable curiosity, and whisk her off to Olympus. He demands that Psyche be made a goddess and Jupiter is like “well she’s certainly been through a lot, hey sure okay why not.” So Venus finally has to get off her high-horse, Psyche grows oddly-drawn butterfly wings, and she gets to be Goddess of the Mind/Soul. THE END.

This one only took eight hours as opposed to the first two, which took ten hours each! Woooo my neck hurts… I based the landscape off a wall painting I saw in one of my reference books.