Happy Imbolc. I'm drawing fairies.

I didn't start this art challenge -- this one comes from artist Brett Manning, who on Instagram does lots of Brian-Froud-ish gnome-type persons I enjoy very much. (I feel like there's another, closer reference, but I can't think of it.)

Every year Manning posts a list of prompts from fairy lore -- today's was Daoine Sidhe, who seem like a fascinating convergence of mythology and deep history, confabulation and cosmology.

I know very little of their story (so feel free to refine my understanding), but they are both the people of the barrows -- the burial mounds -- and half-angelic or divine children of the goddess Danu. They have a lot going on, is what I'm saying.

This was going to be a more elaborate painting, with more signs of her fairy nature, but then it just seemed done. I added the creepy green fingers, which were not in the reference photo.




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