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#TBT #FolkloreThursday #Folklore
'She bade him leave his horse with her and ride on her own two-winged horse'
Illustration for 'The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth & the Water of Life', from _Myths & Legends of Russia_, published by @foliosociety, 2009.
Sometimes, Pudgy is all I have.
#SelfPortrait #PudgyHorse #Depression
I must have shared this scores of times for #WorldElephantDay previously, but perhaps there are still one or two of you who haven't seen it. 🙃
Illustration for 'The Elephant's Child' from Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories', published by @foliosociety, 2013. Watercolour.
Wishes unrealised are no more substantial than air.
The Wish Vendor ~ Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hot pressed watercolour paper, approximately 138 x 210 mm.
Please see this post for larger image and more details: https://t.co/qfMm2syRdp.
_Olympia_
Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 135 x 215 mm.
Olympia, from Offenbach's opera, _Les Contes d'Hoffmann_, is a mechanical doll with whom the titular Hoffmann falls in love, thanks to a pair of magic spectacles which makes her appear human.
Repost! Sorry! Better scan! Exclamations!
@TiffanyTurrill's Fairy Portrait!
Perhaps if I eat something, I might feel a little better. Or just more savage. I don't know. 🤷♀️