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My own personal style of mythical beast on a hand made Ouija board. Made of solid wood and pain mistakenly detail with wood burning.
The Yale is a mythical beast, said to be white in colour and covered in golden spots. It had the peculiar characteristic of being able to swivel each of its horns idependently. It descends to the Queen through Henry VII, who inherited it from his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. His shield shows the portcullis surmounted by the arched Royal crown. The uncrowned portcullis was a Beaufort badge but Henry VII used both crowned and uncrowned versions.
This is one of ten statues outside the Great Palm House at Kew Gardens. Each one was once used as a heraldic badge by the Queen's ancestors. The originals were made by John Woodford and placed in front of Westminster Abbey annex for the coronation of the Queen in 1953. These replicas were made by the same sculptor in Portland Stone and presented to Kew Gardens by an anonymous donor in 1956.
Multiple gables of Imperial roof decoration of the highest status, represent a building of very high importance.
Imperial roof decoration:
At the head of the procession will be a man riding a Phoenix, in-between will be mythical beasts, usually an odd number of them. The mythical beasts are set to pounce upon the man and devour him should he stray from performing his duties with faithfulness and rectitude. Lastly there will be a horned dragon (Qilin)
The number of beasts indicate the importance of the duties performed within the building or within the courtyard protected by a gate. The maximum number of beasts is nine, including evil-dispelling bull, courageous goat-bull (獬豸), wind- and storm-summoning fish (狎魚), mythical lion (狻猊), auspicious seahorse, heavenly horse, lion, and chiwen (鴟吻, a son of dragon).
-Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration)
Still not entirely sure what led me to walk back to the meeting place from Tower Bridge to Southwark Bridge along the Southwark side - but I'm so glad i did.
This sculptor by the Cornish artist David Kemp, forms the centrepiece of Hays Galleria
I always admire this grotesque on my way past. Someone tells me they have seen a similar one elsewhere, so it must have been an off the shelf item...
Still not entirely sure what led me to walk back to the meeting place from Tower Bridge to Southwark Bridge along the Southwark side - but I'm so glad i did.
This sculptor by the Cornish artist David Kemp, forms the centrepiece of Hays Galleria
Wrapped in crimson shadows, it watches from the depths of the forgotten forest.
A silent omen. A creature of myth, memory, and dread.
A picture of my Yorkshire Terrier, Danny, who just had a bath. I’m not sure if he looks like a dog or something that should be supporting an heraldic coat of arms!
At the Thurber Center; Discovery District of downtown Columbus, Ohio. USA
Jack Greaves, sculptor
1987
bronze
Smithsonian catalog: siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=...
From the tablet:
"Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses." She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. "The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; now he was browsing among the tulips. "Here, unicorn," said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. "The unicorn," he said, "ate a lily." His wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch." The man, who had never liked the words "booby" and "booby-hatch," and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. "We'll see about that," he said. He walked over to the door. "He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead," he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.
As soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye. She telephoned the police and she telephoned a psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down in chairs and looked at her, with great interest. "My husband," she said, "saw a unicorn this morning." The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police. "He told me it ate a lilly," she said. The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist. "He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead," she said. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife. They had a hard time subduing her, for she put up a terrific struggle, but they finally subdued her. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband came back into the house.
"Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?" asked the police. "Of course not," said the husband. "The unicorn is a mythical beast." "That's all I wanted to know," said the psychiatrist. "Take her away. I'm sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jaybird." So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.
Moral: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched."
"James Thurber
from Fables for Our Time"
Still not entirely sure what led me to walk back to the meeting place from Tower Bridge to Southwark Bridge along the Southwark side - but I'm so glad i did.
This sculptor by the Cornish artist David Kemp, forms the centrepiece of Hays Galleria
Detail from the Great West Window of 1891, designed by Charles Kemp. It is symbolic of the Tree of Jesse and depicts Angels, Prophets, Patriarchs and mythical beasts.
A collaborative effort by two Fe-Mell Mythical Beasts, JeanetteWifeMoMhorphin & Raeful Ladybug (Christine)
The fearsome tarasque - a mythical animal belonging to the Golden Legend tale of St Martha of Tarascon. The beast was gradually consuming members of the population when they strayed into the local woods but, according to the story, St Martha ventured into the wood alone, refused to kill the animal and , instead, fastened her girdle round its neck and tamed it.
The original tale in the Golden Legend describes it as being, 'half beast, half fish, greater than an ox, longer than a horse... a head like a lion, tail like a serpent'.
A rather different version was presented in Charles Causley's poem, 'Martha and the Dragon' in which,
'It's head is a tiger
A lion its jaw
On six human feet
Are nailed the bear's claw
As strong as a jail
Are the spikes on its shell
Its tail a stout timber
No woodman can fell'.
Take your pick or invent your own version - it seems to be infinitely transmutable.
Sculpture in Context is Ireland's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to view well-established and promising future artists from both Ireland and abroad. Each year an independent panel of selectors is invited to adjudicate this open exhibition, resulting in an exciting mix of mediums and styles.
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2008
Digital collage with digital drawing
8x10 inches
I like this one much more than the last one. Jeez Louise this thing is intense. Goodness. Anyhow, it's for the band I did the previous flier for: Johnny Buffalo and the Mutinous Noise. This is just nuts. My gosh.
Polychrome Taiheyuanqi Paifang or Gateway of Universal Vitality-Chinese architectural archway in the Temple of Confucius or Kong Miao now the Stone Stele Forest or Beilin Museum. Xi'an-Shaanxi-China.
All Saints church, Upper Sheringham has an excellent collection of C15th bench ends, some of which are very unusual.
Detail of Wyverns on the Thornton Curtis church font. www.flickr.com/photos/dhwright/291713187/in/photostream/
A stag-headed Hippocampus - one of several mythical sea creatures on a large roman mosaic in the Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.
Massive toads boasting thick leathery skin that resembles rocks. The pads are full of poisons to ward off their few predators and offer camouflage ideal for ambushing prey. They swallow unsuspecting food whole.
Lantau Island, Hong Kong, 2008
Po Lin Monastery has its own groovy little website. This dragon is one of several adorning octogonal pillars supporting "The Big Temple" (Hall of Great Hero), completed as recently as 1970.
Mythica, Dragon Girl, does not go to Monster High with all the other Monster kids. She goes to a private school for dragon girls and boys.
Being part dragon, there are special things Mythica has to learn about her abilities, skills, and powers that Monster High doesn’t teach. Nonetheless, she, Cleo, and Frankie are pals.
The students at her school just had their annual class pictures taken…and this is Mythica’s. In case you are unaware, being part dragon, since their skin looks like it has sheer top on it, clothes at Mythica’s school are optional.
For my Flickr groups…
One of the few remaining medieval pew ends. It could possibly be a dragon, but is certainly a mythical beast.
5/366
Ha! Found the first item for the treasure hunts in 366/2016 - A Leap of Faith group: #74 - Unicorn. :-)
Day 26 of my 31 prompts from 31 lists drawtober!
Today's is "Knives" from twitter artist Creature_Cave's elemental griffins list
I was going to do something dramatic, like a griffin with blades for feathers, but ended up with this derpus. I guess I have a thing for animals with knives
Chu Xiu Gong was built in 1420 and rebuilt in 1655. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was the residence of Empress and Imperial Concubines. Ci Xi once lived here in 1852 when she was created honourable person Lan. She gave birth to the Emperor Tongzhi here in 1856 when she was promoted to concubine Yi. In 1884, the Empress Dowager Cixi moved her residence to this palace in celebration of her 50th birthday
The Forbidden city, Beijing
1537