Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️さんのイラストまとめ

I love a good visual pun & Deborah Hocking has outdone herself with this one. I think Darwin would love it! Have a cozy evening. Good night, all ❤️

Circe, the enchantress, magician, & goddess of Greek myth, will always fascinate us. She was comely & brilliant: she knew herbs, potions, magic, botany, & could turn humans into animals if they offended. Famously Odysseus’ lover, she also turned his crew into swine

For everyone who feels like this adorable Basset Hound today because of work, here you go ❤️

(Gretchen Ellen Powers)

The sailors of ancient Rome used to say that the sea’s beautiful sea glass, nature’s oceanic jewels, were born of mermaids’ tears after they had wept from Neptune’s latest, jealous wrath. A sad origin myth embroidered with beauty…#MythologyMonday
(🎨 Pyle, & uncredited)

The old archetype of the Green Man was long seen by ancient cultures as symbolic of spring & fecundity. In British cultural history, he can be linked with the Gawain Poet’s Green Knight, Bath’s Romano-British hot springs, medieval churches, & Jack in the Green 🍃#FolkloreSunday

When there’s a quick sun-shower so you grab your mushroom umbrella, of course! Molly Brett’s details stitched together her magical, miniature worlds so beautifully 🍄☂️

Some fairy enchantment for your afternoon. Gustave Doré’s Les Fées (The Fairies), of 1873, offers layers of lore, while alluding to secret fairy worlds, tiny & large, that thrive magically 🌕✨ #FaerieFriday

One of my favourite things about fairy tales is their focus on the miniature. Hans Christian Andersen had a gift for creating small worlds, like that of Thumbelina’s natural realm, penned in 1835. She slept in a walnut shell. I always loved that (🎨 Boyle) #FairytaleTuesday

Afternoon, all. I hope your Monday is going ok? I know times are hard right now, but here’s a spring robin to cheer us on, by Lucy Grossmith. The work is called “Listening.” I love that 🥰💚

Here’s to spring with these lovely Kate Greenaway prints. As a Victorian, Greenaway loved to mine 18thc, Georgian sensibilities for her art. The 1700s were delightfully pre-industrial to her 🌷🌼