Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

13thc Scottish legend: a man who stole a taste of broth made from a magical white snake became a great healer & gained the ability to foretell events, read minds, understand the speech of animals. He became known as Michael Scott the Wizard #FaustianFriday
🎨Jeff Pfeil (b.1981)

🌟Happy anniversary #FairytaleTuesday🌟
H.C. Andersen’s The Wild Swans inspired some favourite illustrations: swans carrying their sister Eliza in a net; Eliza literally knitting for her & her brothers' lives; the transformation from swan to human.

Mermaids, mermen & alchemical mysteries from the "Clavis Artis" held in Trieste's Biblioteca Civica Attilio Hortis & published in Germany in the late 17thc. The manuscript's title page claims it's a translation of Zoroaster written on dragon skin in the 13thc #FairytaleTuesday

(And two more uncanny inkwells for extra owlish inspiration as I couldn't choose.)
#Victorian #owlishmonday

Lucky Black Cat teapot and tea set c. 1950s, Shafford redware made in Japan #Caturday

Vintage valentine's... with owls. Who mostly mate for life. 🦉🦉
#OwlishMonday #ValentinesDay2022

"Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement and wonder and delight. She was standing inside the secret garden."
(The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett)
#BookWormSat

“In great King Arthur's reign,Tom's history first begun; A farmer's wife had sigh'd in vain to have a darling son, A fairy listen'd to her call & granted her the same;
But being very small,Tom Thumb she did him name.”
🎨 Cock Robin Series, McLoughlin Bros (1888) #FairyTaleTuesday

A trio of medieval dragons for #AppreciateADragonDay

Photographs of glamorous felines from Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales (1911) by Eulalie Osgood Grover.
#Caturday