Session 13- Mythology!

Our sketching session on Mythology produced a wide range of creatures including fairies, elves, a giant, goddesses, medusas and a melange of Minotaurs! I think the official collective noun for Minotaurs is a maze of Minotaurs. But that's too obvious! I prefer a mob, a mellifluence or a menace! Or for the Star Wars fans how about a Mandalorian of Minotaurs. Anyway, here are the results of this fabulously interesting challenge! And Emily has chosen the subject for Wednesday- The Roaring 20s!

Dan Lish starts us off with a beautiful watercolour and line image of a giant in the forest with some tiny creatures looking on. I think this is part of a forthcoming book by Dan.

Then Alan Bartlett comes thundering around the maze with three versions of the Minotaur and a legend of the Firebird!

Next we have a lesson in Slavic mythology from Anna Lindenberger over in Uzbekistan! She says. "The Fiend or Bes is a demon from Slavic mythology who, after the Christianisation of the Slavonic nations, is often associated with the devil.
Whispess or Sheptucha (in the middle) demanded tribute in the form of human ears! These she hung from trees and through them, using primeval magic she could hear all that happened in the forest.
Noonwraith or Poldenica (at the bottom) is a ghost who appears int eh fields when the sun is at its highest. These creatures can kill humans who venture into the fields at noontime therefore the farmers run home or seek shelter in the shade at this time of day."
Wow! Don't say you never learn noffink from these sessions. gang!

And from the downright sinister to the charming! Elsa Lish painted these delightful images on pebbles during the one hour challenge! That unicorn is so good I can see it moving! Well done, Elsa!

Back to the horror now with Emily Woolf's beautiful drawing of  Perseus beheading the Medusa. Because the gaze of the gorgon Medusa turned all who looked at her to stone, Perseus guided himself by her reflection in a shield given him by Athena and beheaded Medusa as she slept. 

Ana Ripoll also couldn't make the live session (had Love Island started again or something?)  but sent this lovely watercolour later. I asked her if it was St. George and the Dragon but she said she didn't know! Something from the nether regions of her imagination then! Love the horse!

Julia Xandru couldn't make the live session but sent these gorgeous images to me later depicting a mirrored Medusa and John the Baptist in an earlier painting. Great colours as ever, Jools!

From Morocco Khawla Sdour wasn't able to join us on Zoom but she sent this lovely fairy design later.
Is she a  moon-fairy, Khawla? What is she reaching for? I wanna know! An intriguing image!

Another later edition from Annalisa Renee who sent us these elegant Celtic designs which he hopes to use in a later painting. Celtic design is stunning and can be seen in the famous Book of Kells (800AD approx) which is an illuminated  religious manuscript in Latin considered a masterpiece of Western calligraphy.

This is my Minotaur. I wanted to try and do a sculpture of the beast in clay but I knew it would take me a lot longer than an hour so I started early and finished before the session. So during the session I drew the horny fellow on the left.

Marina Renee-Cemmick also couldn't make the live session but did this gorgeous drawing of the Egyptian goddess Isis later. I think the colouring was done in Photoshop. Is that right, Mimi?

Rory Walker also nearly didn't make it to the live session but arrived ten minutes before the end and still managed to draw this hunky, hairy Minotaur chap! Is he wearing leopard skin pants? What a trendy fellow!

Sophie Birritta cos this fascinating subject and instead of drawing some horrible monstrosity gave us this utterly charming acorn-elf! What a sweet face! A nice antidote to the mass of Machairodontic Minotaurs!

Some of the participants! See you on Wednesday I hope gang the the subject is
The Roaring 20s!
Paul
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We have a late addition from Anne Alderson who couldn't make the live session either but has sent me this spectacular and fearsome dragon which she drew from her spectacular and fearsome imagination plus a lovely watercolour study of a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.Thanks, Anne!
Paul
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