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Being Irish, I'm a dab hand at recognizing fairy pools, so please don't question me. Clearly the wee folk bathe here.
Title : Lollipop Faerie
Size: 8" x 10"
Medium: Prismacolor Colored Pencils on Paper
Artist: Thaneeya McArdle
© Thaneeya McArdle - Please do not use this image without permission.
This whimsical artwork illustrates a young blonde Lollipop Faerie. She is poised as if ready to strike a spell with her lollipop! Curls seem to follow surround her everywhere she goes - from her curly hair, to the curly designs on her wings, to the curls on her mushroom, and of course the swirly curls of her ever-present lollipops!
I had taken three vertical shots of these bowers beneath the trees in the Faerie Glen near Uig on Skye. The vertical orientation didn't seem to communicate the tight confines within these sylvan dells. I arranged them into three panels instead, which seemed more interesting visually.
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Textures Only ~ Compeitition #147
Created for The StockYard Image Challenge
With thanks to.....
Original image with thanks to Karen Roe
Models ~ Marcus Ranum
Models ~ Faestock
Lanterns ~ JinxMim
Tree tops ~ Rubyblossom
Vines ~ She Is Pretty Stock
Wings ~ Obsidian Dawn
Mushrooms ~ Oddsock
Texture ~ Skeletal Mess
Background ~ ~Brenda-Starr~
Signpost - My own taken at Sea World, Gold Coast
Body: Maitreya
Head: Lelutka Raven
Skin: tres beau, elodie
Hair: no.match
Wings: Murder of Ravens, Avia Wings
Feet: Empty list
Umbrella: Moon Rabbit
Outfit: Zenith, LiHua dress
Claws: Contraption
Tail: Catseye
Eyes: Gloom
Antennae: CC
can be found here:
www.etsy.com/listing/46401495/faeries-sleeping-12x8-matt-...
i am starting a series for childrens bedrooms. xx
blogged: gingerlillytea.blogspot.com/
Taken at a Photography Club shoot at Stafford Castle last night. This was the first time this young lady had posed for a camera and was amazing, so natural she needed little direction.
The wings are the train of the dress thrown into the air to simulate wind.
The water, and reflection of course, are an addition.
#PotteriesPhotographyClub
123 Pictures in 2023, theme # 21 Contemplation
Mythology and Folklore of the Rowan
The rowan's mythic roots go back to classical times. Greek mythology tells of how Hebe the goddess of youth, dispensed rejuvenating ambrosia to the gods from her magical chalice. When, through carelessness, she lost this cup to demons, the gods sent an eagle to recover the cup. The feathers and drops of blood which the eagle shed in the ensuing fight with the demons fell to earth, where each of them turned into a rowan tree. Hence the rowan derived the shape of its leaves from the eagle's feathers and the appearance of its berries from the droplets of blood.
The rowan is also prominent in Norse mythology as the tree from which the first woman was made, (the first man being made from the ash tree). It was said to have saved the life of the god Thor by bending over a fast flowing river in the Underworld in which Thor was being swept away, and helping him back to the shore. Rowan was furthermore the prescribed wood on which runes were inscribed to make rune staves.
In the British Isles the rowan has a long and still popular history in folklore as a tree which protects against witchcraft and enchantment. The physical characteristics of the tree may have contributed to its protective reputation, including the tiny five pointed star or pentagram on each berry opposite its stalk (the pentagram being an ancient protective symbol). The colour red was deemed to be the best protection against enchantment, and so the rowan's vibrant display of berries in autumn may have further contributed to its protective abilities, as suggested in the old rhyme: "Rowan tree and red thread / make the witches tine (meaning 'to lose') their speed". The rowan was also denoted as a tree of the Goddess or a Faerie tree by virtue (like the hawthorn and elder) of its white flowers.
There are several recurring themes of protection offered by the rowan. The tree itself was said to afford protection to the dwelling by which it grew, pieces of the tree were carried by people for personal protection from witchcraft, and sprigs or pieces of rowan were used to protect especially cows and their dairy produce from enchantment. Thus we find documented instances as late as the latter half of the twentieth century of people being warned against removing or damaging the rowan tree growing in their newly acquired garden in the Scottish Highlands and Ireland. On the Isle of Man crosses made from rowan twigs without the use of a knife were worn by people and fastened to cattle, or hung inside over the lintel on May Eve each year. From Scotland to Cornwall similar equal-armed crosses made from rowan twigs and bound with red thread were sewn into the lining of coats or carried in pockets. Other permutations of the use of rowan's protective abilities are many and widespread. In Scandinavia, rowan trees found growing not in the ground but out of some inaccessible cleft in a rock, or out of crevasses in other trees' trunks or boughs, possessed an even more powerful magic, and such trees were known as 'flying rowan'.
Rowan has had a wide range of popular folk names, the most well-know being mountain ash. Its old Gaelic name from the ancient Ogham script was Luis from which the place name Ardlui on Loch Lomond may have been derived. The more common Scots Gaelic name is caorunn (pronounced choroon, the ch as in loch), which crops up in numerous Highland place names such as Beinn Chaorunn in Inverness-shire and Loch a'chaorun in Easter Ross. Rowan was also the clan badge of the Malcolms and McLachlans. There were strong taboos in the Highlands against the use of any parts of the tree save the berries, except for ritual purposes. For example a Gaelic threshing tool made of rowan and called a buaitean was used on grain meant for rituals and celebrations. The strength of these taboos did not apply in other parts of Britain it seems, though there were sometimes rituals and timings to be observed in harvesting the rowan's gifts (for example the rule against using knives to cut the wood, mentioned above).
The rowan's wood is strong and resillient, making excellent walking sticks, and is suitable for carving. It was often used for tool handles, and spindles and spinning wheels were traditionally made of rowan wood. Druids used the bark and berries to dye the garments worn during lunar ceremonies black, and the bark was also used in the tanning process. Rowan twigs were used for divining, particularly for metals.
The berries can be made into or added to a variety of alcoholic drinks, and different Celtic peoples each seem to have had their favourites. As well as the popular wine still made in the Highlands, the Scots made a strong spirit from the berries, the Welsh brewed an ale, the Irish used them to flavour Mead, and even a cider can be made from them. Today rowan berry jelly is still made in Scotland and is traditionally eaten with game.
Original Fairies Wear Boots ;o) but for the Renaissance we go back to the old English spelling Faeries vs the new day Disney Fairies. From the Black Sabbath album the song Fairies Wear Boots.
Kansas City Renaissance Festival, Bonner Springs, Kansas.
Edit includes a cross processing preset in Lightroom 4.
Taken on a wee wander up the Faerie Glen at Rosemarkie last week, the autumn colours were just starting to kick in, and some of the fallen leaves were caught in a whirlie pool below the falls.
I suppose if I were a water faerie, I might like to call this home. With rooms with a view and reading lights in every nook, it is interesting, pleasing to the eye and remarkably odd, all at the same time. If it isn't enough to just gaze at for a while, you might be interested to know that it opens like it was some labyrinthine sea creature recently discovered near the Galapagos. This is the stunning creation of my Daughter Jacqueline Richard. It has been said, if you build it they will come. I wonder....
Hawthorn tree
Portal to Faerie realm
April 29 2010
'Spirits and faeries had their meeting place under the hawthorn tree.'
from: Flower Power by Anne Mcintyre. A Henry Holt reference book.
I was thrilled to find this quote, as I thought of faeries when I was near this lovely tree.
I used the berries in a tea I made up for Mark when he suffered from high blood pressure a few years ago.
Was playing with mosaic creator... and of course LOL collected some faeries ... from my entire Second Life... :)
1. The Little Night Faery, 2. aspettando, 3. make a wish ..., 4. La Fata Azzurra, 5. Butterflykissed, 6. Waiting the Sun to wake, 7. Mid-Summer Night Faery, 8. Daughter of the Raising Sun, 9. i'll always come back to you..., 10. Fae, 11. Secret of the Full Moon, 12. Butterflies waiking up, 13. on the other side of the water
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
NIKON D750 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/50 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100 x 18 Frames
www.rc.au.net/blog/2015/05/15/amanita-muscaria/
© Rodney Campbell
Make It Interesting ~ Challenge #3
With thanks to...
Starter image ~ cliff1066™
Peacock ~ BY-YOUR-⌘
Models ~ Marcus Ranum
Model ~ Faestock
Lanterns ~ JinxMim
Background ~ Rubyblossom
Texture ~ Skeletal Mess
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EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge #28 - FAIRIES
Also for Marcus Ranum ~ Challenge #19
Created for The StockYard Fantasy Challenge
With thanks to......
Models ~ Marcus Ranum & Faestock
Background ~ ~Brenda-Starr~
Wings ~ Obsidian Dawn
Texture ~ Skeletal Mess