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I've long admired the work of Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), so continue this theme here's his woodcut depicting a scene from the life of St Brendan the Navigator, used to illustrate Helen Waddell's 'Beasts and Saints' (1934) #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/MYjFKJbNgo
Perseus rescuing Andromeda, who was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to the sea-monster Cetus, sent by Zeus to punish the kingdom. A Greek myth still popular in the Middle Ages: Christine de Pizan: Epistre d'Othea: BL ms Harley 4431 f.98v #monsters #FolkloreThursday
These two tiny paintings are available as prints at https://t.co/YJBJ1cWERN
Both framed originals are also available for sale!
#art #traditionalart #fantasy #folklore #horse #mabinogion #artforsale
The Celtic Reed Month - 28 Oct to 24 Nov. The yellow iris has reed stems & thrives by marshes, ponds, fens etc. In Greek myth one of the goddess Iris’s tasks was to carry water in a ewer from the River Styx when any god had to take a solemn oath. #FolkloreThursday Img: C. Barker
@ka1nfso1 @StreetFighter It's like a Japanese Turtle-like monster in Japanese folklore: https://t.co/aKCPSdxJ9m
#oldgodsinktober Day 18 - #Swan
The sacred, cosmic bird was said to be the messenger between worlds, carrier of souls, a traveler that flew along the Milky Way to rest.
#mythology #folklore #inktober #inktober2019 #finnishmythology #paganart #traditionalart #art
WILD HUNT In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of #ghosts of the restless dead, which ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises; reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve #31DaysOfHalloween
Myths, Monsters, and Folklore Day 22: Ghoul
#inktober #inktoberday22 #Inktober2019 #monsters #horror #Folklore #illustration #digitalpainting #art #ArtistOnTwitter #Procreate
Day 22 of 31 Days Of Halloween: TWISTED FAIRYTALE: Goldilocks and The Three Bears👩🏼🐻🥣
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Every year the twisted Disney Princesses is a really popular makeup. I’ve even done a few! I’ve been thinking about doing twisted fairytales/folklore for the last couple years. Enjoy!
#inktober2019
22 - Dark
Here Darkrai eternal nightmare form, The incubus and horse's head refer to contemporary belief and folklore about nightmares.
#madieink19 #fakemon
#fakevolution #megaevolution #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #Galar #kensugimoriart #darkrai #kensugimoristyle
Cette semaine place au folklore japonais avec un concours #KenEn et #MesVoisinsLesEsprits chez @dokidoki_manga ! Trois gagnants auront la chance de remporter le 1er tome des deux séries.
Pour participer on RT et follow @dokidoki_manga @Naka_manga et TAS le 28/10 ! #EasyPeasy 🤞
Drew my OC character Yato (Yato no kami) which is based by the Japanese folklore.
@GaijinGoombah btw you should watch GeGeGe no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!! (from 2007)
I believe Yato might return to the new series of Gegege -.o (at least hope so)
@peeblo_r I'm the basement fairy! BEWARE! I appear in dirty basements to haunt the household! In ancient Samer folklore, parents would tell this story to children in order to scare them and make them clean the basement of the household.
ceremonial songs & soviet folklore from Maria Beltsikova & Tatiana Dordzhieva, Kalmyks from the western shore of the Caspian Sea, the only traditionally Buddhist people whose homeland is located within Europe >>
https://t.co/cfeUQX2JHI
Another tiny painting- twrch trwyth and cavall
Gouache and acrylic
#illustration #painting #mabinogion #art #folklore
I've had like 30 free minutes the past several days and I spent them on making a very absurd San'layn who's a furry
( He's based on various vampires and undead things from many folklores, namely the pricolici among others)
Ashinaga y Tenaga 足長-手長, yokai 20/31
Ashinaga-tenaga (足長手長, "Long Legs Long Arms") are a pair of yōkai in Japanese folklore. One, Ashinaga, has extremely long legs, while the other, Tenaga, has extremely long arms.
#inktoberday20 #inktober #inktober2019 #illustration
Day 18 of #inktober is grand ball! It’ll take a while to reach but I’m looking forward to this scene! 🙌
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Read the comic here!
https://t.co/osTeTjKbqA
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#inktober2019 #ink #inkdrawing #illustrator #englishfolklore #webcomic #illustration #inktoberday18 #dailydrawing
My novel THIS SACRED ISLE was inspired by Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic myths and legends such as Beowulf and tales of Merlin and King Arthur
THIS SACRED ISLE
https://t.co/yqk7f2IcvO (Kindle)
#AngloSaxon #KingArthur #Merlin #Beowulf #dragons #mythology #Kindle #folklore #ebook