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FUSELI'S PUCK (c.1790) has bat wings rather than butterfly wings; his enchantments are far from innocent. The other fairies flee in this image where he is full of movement. He boasts he can 'put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes' (MSND)

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2019-07-23

Yuri Fateev's illustrations for The Russian Fairy Tales Book (1987)

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2019-07-23

-I love water faerie folk 🌊💦
So, I'm continuing my theme this week with "The Messenger," -a pond Naiad illustration from books.
Thanks

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2019-07-17

It's --Sea Horses in the Ocean waves!
Can you smell the salty sea air?
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2019-07-17

We all know dragons love treasure and fair maidens. Here are some great examples of classic dragons by Erin Kelso. Beautiful artwork♡

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2019-07-16

I loved the beast with a young woman’s heart, pure and true, and in return he loved me with a heart more human than any that beats inside the chest of a man.

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2019-07-16

Looking at Fairy images of old today, I came across https://t.co/U6JzB6HtPc with wondrous by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman. This image titled Woman of the Bones is incredible... as is the that goes with her: https://t.co/kJtcLfXFTF …

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2019-07-16

Some charming classic illustrations from various books telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood and that Big Bad Wolf.

J. W. Smith
M. Tarrant
Tom Browne
Walter Crane

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2019-07-16

"Pond Lily"
Sharing some of my Flower Faerie art for
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2019-07-10

Edward Frederick Brewtnall (1846-1902) - Little Red Riding Hood

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2019-07-09

Sweet-scented, like a dream
Of Fairyland they seem...
Jasmine 

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2019-07-02

Hey I'm donating all PDF sales of Beauty and The Beast to to help facilitate the release of migrants held in American concentration camps. 750 pages of fully illustrated, award-winning fairy tale angst https://t.co/BTlY8DO6KN

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2019-06-26

Betta refuses to marry, unhappy w/her choices. Using large amounts of sugar, sweet almonds, scented water, musk, amber, jewels, gold thread, a trough & a silver trowel, she makes a statue of it, prays to the Goddess of Love, and the statue becomes a living man.

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2019-06-25

Elisa saves her enchanted brothers in the Wild Swans, illustrated in exquisite fashion by Nadezhda Illarionova 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢👸🏾

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2019-06-25

For comes "Allerleirauh" - a princess flees from her father, who wants to marry her and disguises herself as a poor girl in an ugly fur. After found by another king she lives in his kitchen, until she conquers his heart in a Cinderella like story.

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2019-06-25

The brilliant Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite died 1960. Her Waterfall Fairy and both beautiful bat- & broomstick-riding are from “The Enchanted Forest” (1921). Her Witch on a hill surrounded by familiars is from “Elves & Fairies” (1916).

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2019-06-25

A few of the fairies/mythic creatures from Scotland. Researching my latest WIP these became my favorites.Water creatures from Scotland's northern islands.
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Selkie by Torrance
Undine by Rackham
Nuckelavee by Torrance

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2019-06-19