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mmore old lamento redos-- i wanted to finish for horny day but.. froudo

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2020-04-18

Brian Froud’s faerie art is literally my biggest inspiration as an artist

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2020-04-15

Morgan Le Fay (Morgan the Fairy) apprentice to the great wizard Merlin. A beautiful and powerful sorceress.



(Art: Brian Froud)

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2020-04-07

Skeksis and Mystic ✨
I was obsessed with The Dark Crystal growing up, and with Brian Froud’s illustrations. I watched the film so many times in my youth I think it embedded itself in my subconscious, and no doubt my own art lays some of its roots there.

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2020-03-31

Most loved humans, while others would find delight in pranking Pixies, always (almost anyway) in good fun. Humans and pixies enjoyed a balanced life, based on Man’s trust and respect for nature and the pixie willingness to help when needed. Until…

Picture: Brian Froud

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2020-03-22

Concept art for 'The Dark Crystal' (1982) by Brian Froud and Harry Lange

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2020-03-19


In English Folklore, Wicked Jenny or Jenny Greenteeth is a river hag that would pull children into the water to drown.
(Brian Froud Art)

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2020-03-12

“I come from the Land of the Living, where there is neither death, nor sin, nor transgression.
We partake of feasts perpetual.
In a large hill we dwell, and hence we are called Aes Sidhe (People of the Hill)”

- Echtra Condla,

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2020-03-07

Many people have been pixy-led as they travel across the remote hills and moors of Devon and Cornwall, or even at night on familiar roads. To avoid getting lost in this way, turn your coat inside-out, or carry some bread in your pocket.
Illustration- Brian Froud

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2020-02-27

In the dim kingdom there is a great abundance of all excellent things. There is more love there than upon the earth. There is more dancing there than upon the earth.
There is more treasure there than upon the earth.


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2020-02-17

All was dark when the sun used to live as a man among the San of the Kalahari; he was unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped from beneath. Eventually he was flung into the sky to light the entire world.
Brian Froud Illustration

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2020-01-30

RED CAP Malignant Vampiric that belongs to the border country between England and Scotland. He keeps his hat red using human blood. You can repel him by making the sign of the cross – he will vanish leaving only a long tooth! 🎨Brian Froud

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2020-01-27

https://t.co/OHXqvT1NDo

Illustration by Alan Lee. From Faeries, by Brian Froud.

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2020-01-26

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Terry Jones and Brian Froud is a collection of "pressed fairies" intended to satarise the famous Cottingley Fairies. The book contains Jone's whimsical humour and Froud's beautiful illustrations..

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2020-01-23

Indeed! And his Goblin Companion and with Brian Froud too..

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2020-01-23

SKILLYWIDDEN. The wonderful name of a caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in It is one of only a few captured fey that have ever been documented and is recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England 1865 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud

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2020-01-14

On in former days, the small people, or would meet at the bottom of the deepest mines, and celebrate

Note to the producers of You missed a trick there. :)


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2019-12-25

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I painted the fairy on the left after visiting the World of Froud exhibition at artgallery and the one on the right ten(ish) years later!
🍃 https://t.co/U6wQvzzKQk

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2019-12-17

I watercolored some Skeksis and Mystics Froud-style

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2019-12-11