Brett's FAEbruary Art Challenge

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Sketches I did for an Instagram challenge created by artist (and probable Fae) Brett Manning

Please excuse the image quality, as these were pencil drawings and I don't currently have a scanner.


1. Changeling: the baby has horns, a glow, and is levitating slightly


2. Wood Wives: they left their husbands for each other


3. Sluagh (turning into dead leaves)


4. Pan


6. Sylph, in the style of the ballet Les Sylphides. I loved this as a kid because I am probably a changeling. Vengeful spirits of spurned women dance men to their deaths.


7. Redcap who gave up his life of violence to run a nice death-free hat shop


8. Ghillie Dhu


9. Cailleach


10. Selkie (two selkies actually, in their different forms)


12. Fynoderee getting a haircut at the pixie salon


Bonus: a pixie knitting a fynoderee fur jumper. It is a little known fact that as much as 3% of “wool” jumpers contain fynoderee fur!


13. Faerie Funeral

A mouse pulls the coffin cart while miscellaneous Fae mourn: A shade, a girl with an umbrella who is a reference to Katherine Harbour's Night and Nothing series, a trow, a naga, a pixie a forest spirit, the undertaker and a fynoderee.

Comments

  1. Debra She Who Seeks2 March 2022 at 00:43

    Yay, Wood Wives!

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  2. Sheila3 March 2022 at 13:08

    These are so fun!

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  3. Magaly Guerrero4 March 2022 at 15:35

    Ooh! I've never heard of Wood Wives. How very intriguing...

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  4. Bracken Crafts- 100 garments12 March 2022 at 03:43

    I like these. I do not know about No 3. Sluagh - will be looking it up. How interesting!

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  5. Victoria14 March 2022 at 18:31

    I love all your enchanting sketches..such fun and so magical. I had never even heard of Faebruary till I saw your Ig posts..how enchanting!

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