Flight of Fancy

So this took a while. Okay understatement. The sketch for this I made about two years ago. I have made several attempts to paint it since then but somehow I never saw it through. Few weeks ago I started it again and now it's actually finished! I'm pretty satisfied with it, hope you like it too!

Completely painted in Adobe Photoshop 7.0
regular hardedge round brush

EDIT: uploaded a slightly smaller size, noone likes too much horizontal scrolling