Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

When time began the #snow had no colour, & the flowers of the earth refused to help. It was only the #snowdrop that took pity & offered up its colour. In return the snow has always protected the snowdrop from the harshness of #winter. #German #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker

#WilliamBlake, visionary #poet, painter & printmaker, was born in #Soho #London on 28th November 1757. He first published his poems as illuminated plates. #Artlovers #art #symbolism #arte #FolkloreThursday

Claude #Monet was born on 14th November 1840, in #Paris. He began his #waterlilies series in 1899, based on his own #garden in #Giverny. #artist’s #birthday #arte #art #Impressionist #ThursdayThoughts

“The teeming #autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow’d wombs after their lords’ decease.”
Sonnet 97, lines 6-8
#ShakespeareSunday
#Monet #arte

The Blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from #Samhain. It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins in a poppet, its wands used for cursing. A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. #FolkloreThursday Img: C. Barker #halloween2019

The Celtic Reed Month - 28 Oct to 24 Nov. The yellow iris has reed stems & thrives by marshes, ponds, fens etc. In Greek myth one of the goddess Iris’s tasks was to carry water in a ewer from the River Styx when any god had to take a solemn oath. #FolkloreThursday Img: C. Barker

White Bryony (dioica) - English mandrake - has been used since Medieval times in place of the mandrake root in image magic. Carved to resemble the human-shaped mandrake root, it is used to draw a lover, induce conception, & bring wealth & power. #FolkloreThursday Img: C. Barker

#NationalTeddyBearDay #WinnieThePooh

A #NewMoon conjunct Mars & Venus in Virgo, on 30 Aug. 6:37 am EDT, 11:37 am BST, 20:37 Aust. A #BlackMoon as it is the 2nd new moon in a month, & a #SuperMoon, being very close to the earth. The magical energy of the new moon will be ramped up. #FolkloreThursday Img: Waterhouse

Luna: A Panel, c. 1879, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, born 28th August 1833. #Stainedglass made by the #design company of #WilliamMorris. #Victorian #art #birthday #newmoon #night #Artlovers