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NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer🎨Mary Evans, A human girl is fed night mist scented with flowers; Rackham #FolkloreSunday
@cookhard87 Thanks! I referenced a piece by Rackham, I copied it for a painting exercise while trying some different things with it :) He's definitely a master and it's fun to try to reproduce his work.
✨Goodnight Twitter folk! May your dreams be magical.✨
🎨 Undine, Arthur Rackham 1909
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens illustrations by Arthur Rackham
But blowy? It’s 24mph winds here in Scotland today so up & away with windswept Fairies by Arthur Rackham for this week's #MagicMonday along with a sketch by Millais in which he jostles with the weather whilst painting at the Brig O' Turk in 1854. Hold on to your hats (& easels!)
Les jötnar Fasolt et Fafner s'emparent de la déesse Freyja. Illustration d'Arthur Rackham, 1910.
Iris, goddess of the rainbow (1921) by Arthur Rackham (English artist, lived 1867-1939). Iris carried messages to and from the gods. #Mythology #Greekmythology
Long before true crime and blood spatter evidence, there were singing drops of blood, summoning people to the crime scene♥️
"Where are you?"
"Here I am! On the stairs sweeping," answered one of the drops of blood.
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#FairyTaleTuesday
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin, a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Set in the Middle Ages about a rat catcher hired to rid Hamelin of its rat infestation. The citizens refuse to pay him, so he retaliates by luring away their children forever.
🖼Arthur Rackham
@Mythica_X Yoshitaka Amano, Nobuteru Yuuki, Satoshi Urushihara, Hayao Miyazaki.
Not that there aren't plenty of non-Japanese artists I like, but I think they've all been mentioned here. Frazetta, Rackham, Druillet, for instance.
Iris, goddess of the rainbow, by Arthur Rackham, 1921. #MythologyMonday
‘Girls Night Out’ aka Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries premiered #otd 1870. Illustration by Arthur Rackham.
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‘O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ The Stolen Child, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham #BookWormSat
"Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died" ~ Lewis Spence
#InternationalFairyDay
#bookwormsat
🎨 Arthur Rackham