Fairy tales?

Posted on March 6, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged amusing, Brian Froud, Fairy, Funny, illustrated, Lady Cottinghams Pressed Fairy Book, Life, pressed, squished, Terry Jones2 Comments

From Pinterest Lady Cottinghams Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones, illustrated by Brian Froud.

Have you seen this book? It’s a really strange and funny book illustrated with squished fairys. The story is that a little girl who accidentally snaps a fairy in her book, and then gradually collects more and more in her book. They are the essence of the fairys, their spirits, and incredibly cheeky looking.

Each illustration has notes of the capture alongside them. As Lady Cottingham grows up her writing improves and her speculation about the fairy world and the intensions of the “wee folk” gets more involved. I really enjoyed it.

What do you see?

Posted on February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fairy, fairy swinging, Imagination, Pareidolia, Pattern recognition, Random, spill, Wings3 Comments

Today at choir someone had spilt water on the floor. Like a Rorschach test, looking at ink blots, I saw the figure of a fairy swinging. Both legs bent at the knee, wearing pointed toe boots, sitting forward on a swing, butterfly wings behind and a little pixie hat on her head. If I can I will try and draw on top of the image to see how much more I can make it look like a fairy. This is an example of Pareidolia, where the mind sees images from random patterns.

Not brilliant.. Doodle

Posted on January 23, 2025 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ballerina, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Fairy, Playing, proportions, Sketching, solarizeLeave a comment

A doodle from a few years ago. I just found it on my phone, I was playing with colour and texture, using an app to solarize areas. But clearly I wasn’t concentrating on proportions! This fairy Ballerina has very large legs and one large arm, and the other arm and the head are tiny. The body is too small too. I think its a case of looking at one part too closely instead of viewing the picture as a whole. Anyway I thought I’d share it as a bad example of doodled digital art.

Wire fairy

Posted on April 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Fairy, Garden, imp, Memories, Sketching, Trentham Gardens, Wire weaving4 Comments

Wire fairy I made 4 years ago and a sketch of it. I enjoyed making it although I would say it’s not as delicate as the ones I’ve seen at Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent, England, where there are some lovely examples. In fact looking at it again I’d call it an Imp, not a fairy!

It resides somewhere in my garden, probably overgrown by the laurel bush that is overwhelming the bottom of the garden.

Jack Frost?

Posted on September 17, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Drawing, Fairy, Imagination, Jack Frost, Life, Silly, Sketching, ThornLeave a comment

When I’m not painting or sketching, I’m doodling.

Meet Jack Frost, or the Thorn Fairy depending on the time of year? I don’t know where the idea came from. But nights are getting a bit longer and colder and today seemed really cold in our house. It was so chilly I put a jumper on! Then this evening I looked up at our bedroom window. The top pane was wide open, no wonder it was cold! Hubby admitted it had been open since this morning. We agreed heating the outside atmosphere with our central heating system is not a good idea!

So now Jack Frost is a Thorn Fairy. A useful creature to keep people out of our garden, perhaps!

Pleasant day

Posted on September 10, 2022September 11, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Day out, Fairy, Life, Sculpture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham Gardens, Wire weaving2 Comments

One of the fairy sculptures at Trentham Gardens today. She seems to be throwing leaves into the air in a wild gesture of freedom. She is standing on to of a world or perhaps a seed pod. The creator of the sculptures shows a great deal of variety and not only humour but great expressiveness.

Ivy fairy

Posted on August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bushes, Colours, Fairy, flower fairy, Flowers, Found, Gardening, Hidden, Ivy, Laurel, WoodLeave a comment

Found in the garden under a bush. She was wrapped in ivy and laurel leaves. Lost in our garden. A wood fairy or sprite, turned not to stone, but sadly only resin. Still, she slowly danced through spring and autumn, summer and winter. Slowly submerged in vegetation. I’m glad she’s rescued. Now she’s in the yard, surrounded by petals and colours. Nasturtiums, petunias, fushias, begonias, a true flower fairy. Blooming lovely.

Fairy in a tree

Posted on January 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fairies, Fairy, Metal, Sculpture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, swing, Trentham Gardens, WireweavingLeave a comment

If you visit Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent you can find various wire woven fairies dotted around the grounds. Some are easier to spot than others. One flies down to a fountain to fill a watering can, another holds onto a huge dandelion seed head as it is caught in the wind. A warrior queen fairy stands on a plinth by the lake. I liked this one, hanging down from a branch in the trees on a swing. She’s hard to spot as the tree is an evergreen pine. She’s a welcome addition after walking around the lake.

Fairy drinking

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged drinking, drip, Fairy, Flight, Flutter, Lake, palm, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, SipLeave a comment

A fairy seems to hover

Over the lake

Wings flutter

Like a humming bird

A cupped hand

Reaches out

A small pool

in her palm

Takes a sip

Watches

the water

Drip

Imagined

Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Characters, Collage, College, Doodle, Drawing, Fairy, Fun, genie, giant, Imagined, SketchLeave a comment

A giant, a genie and a fairy, (thus coukd be a joke). Pencil crayon drawings cut out to add to a collage I did for college. It came out quite well. I don’t have a decent photo of it so I can’t show you. It’s fun though coming up with characters and images from my imagination.

Mallaband-Brown

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