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Inspiration for this week's #colour_collective is drawn from the @BirdWhisperers project with shades #FrenchGrey in the plumes of the Whiskey Jack a member of the corvid family also known as the Canada Jay although for the purposes of this illustration perhaps its Whiskey Jacques
Joining rainbow snake from aboriginal Dreamtime is the rainbow fish from Hindu legend - but this one isn't a myth it's Melanotaenia boesemani from Indonesia. 🇮🇩
@AnimalAlphabets #MythicalAlphabet
#mythologyMonday #AnimalAlphabets 🌈
The god of protection & one of the four sons of Horus in Egyptian mythology joins the questing beast from Arthurian legend for the letter Q in the @AnimalAlphabets #MythicalAlphabet
#mythologyMonday #AnimalAlphabets #Egyptology
Joining Otso bear - the king of the forest from Finnish mythology is an Ogre from the first @AnimalAlphabets #MythicalAlphabet series
#mythologyMonday #AnimalAlphabets 🐻
Daniela @cariadferch fabulous #pinchpunchpost rainbow serpent prompted me to search out my own multi-coloured snake from the 2016 #mythical #animalalphabets
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For #colour_collective here's the black-hooded oriole which lives in tropical southern Asia from India & Sri Lanka to Indonesia.
#acidyellow #birds
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is folklore of forest creatures & spirits so here from the @AnimalAlphabets #mythicalalphabet series is a dryad - a tree nymph often associated with oak trees @FolkloreThurs
Joining the hippocampus from the 2016 @AnimalAlphabets mythical creatures alphabet is the #hatsadiling - a mythical bird often featured in northern Thai art
#animalalphabets #mythicalalphabet #MythologyMonday
For @AnimalAlphabets here's the each-uisge a supernatural water horse found in the Scottish Highlands. It's often mistaken for the kelpie, which inhabits streams and rivers, whereas the each-uisge lives in the sea, sea lochs & fresh water lochs #AnimalAlphabets #MythicalAlphabet
The great thing about #colour_collective is discovering colours & #birds that I didn't know existed.
The Verditer flycatcher, found from the Himalayas through Southeast Asia to Sumatra, is named after the distinctive shade of its copper-sulphate blue plumage #VerditterBlue