Marie Antoinette French Stamp

Hello! Finally able to upload this! I just turned this into my history class. We had to pick a topic from the syllabus and design a stamp for it. I chose the French Revolution and picked Marie Antoinette for the subject to be displayed.

I wanted a sense of irony. Obviously with the tricolor flag in the background the doomed queen shouldn't be looking so calm, beautiful and alive. I lack the experience to paint gore so I went with the symbolism of the red choker to symbolize her decapitation. I got the idea for the red choker from one of the openings to Nip/Tuck (it's an awesome opening sequence if you haven't seen it). The red rubies along the choker is supposed to symbolize blood.

I used a French stamp as a reference for what proper verbiage should be displayed. I apologize if any errors remain.

I would have loved to have had more time to paint more rubies cascading down but I simply didn't have enough time to do so due to working fulltime and going to school full time. I'm surprised I'm still sane. Anyways! I hope you like it!