Faeries

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Hello, all!  Just dropping by to introduce myself and share a couple pieces of my recent artwork.

I'm Amyla.  I've been creating fantasy and faery art for a good ten years or so, more recently in the medium of digital painting.  Obviously (as I'm here!) I have an immense love of the fae, and have an especial fascination for the slightly darker aspects of their stories, that blend of sinister beauty.

So, here are a couple of my latest pieces (I hope it's okay to share these here; I noticed other people sharing art so thought I would too.)  The first and most recent is called "Ocean Lord," and is a depiction of a sea spirit.  The second is called "Trickster."

Hope everyone enjoys!  (You can click the thumbnails for the full sized images)

They've updated the webpage http://www.oneillfaeries.org at last!! More information and times and prices . Plus a whole new look for the page!





Admission is $10 for Adults ($8 if you wear a costume) or $15 for both events.
Children 12 & under are free with Adult admission.
There will be live music, contests, prizes, performers, and food available for purchase.

What are YOUR plans for it?

Me I'm meeting up with some other Fae friends in Oklahoma City and we're hitting the Science museum on Saturday and the Zoo on Sunday. We'll be 'urban fae" in jeans and our wings! It's gonna be so much fun!

There will be photos!

In a month I will be doing a presentation on the history of the Fae from medieval to modern times. And while I have plenty of resources and links, more is always nice. Do you have a favorite page about the fae realm *not just fairies but all aspects of the Fae* you'd care to share? I'd appreciate anything! Thank you

The Japanese Kami are very much like the original ideas of European fairies. Indeed the two sets of beings likely come from the same traditions. At one time the Altaic peoples (of which the Japanese are a part) and the Indo-European peoples (which make up most of the peoples of Europe, including the Celts) were a single people and much of their beliefs remained similar up to the modern era. In reading Japanese Fairy tales which I have been having translated, along with the fairy tales of many of Europe's peoples I have come to find these similarities very striking.
In Europe people knocked on wood in order to wake the fairies within so that they might ask favors of these, while in Japan they clapped their hands to wake the kami. Of course the idea of waking the spirits with a clapping noise isn't unique in and of it self, but when one considers that both cultures hung cloth from trees to show their respect, that they believed that mountain and rock fairies/kami were most likely to appear in dreams while thunder and wind kami would likely appear in person. Or that mountain kami and field fairy/kami were responsible for good harvests the relationship between the belief systems of the belief systems begins to stand out a bit more. It's useful of course to have read the fairy tales of the Mongols, the Turkic people and the Uralic people which live between Japan and Europe to begin to see how the beliefs transitioned from one land to another and how they are connected. I've been working on developing this collection of fairy tales for some time and am so far as I know the first to have translated a number of fairy tales of the Eurasian steppes into English in order to achieve this.

I was reading someones post in the faerie tales group about how the trees help a form of fairy in England and I came to realize how consistent this idea was throughout Europe. Water fairies such as the nymphs of Greece or the Vila of Slavic lands and the Rusalka of Russia lived where groves of trees grew by rivers. There's a strong relationship between the two types of fairies that often combines them to make them one and the same. Further, earth spirits when angered might become the spirit of the water so they could cause a region to flood.I find it interesting because while it seems like we often divide the elements and the fairies of the elements into very differing types which war with each other it seems more as though many peoples believed that they were the same thing in different forms. In Russia fairy tales indicate a belief that Water and Earth were allied as were Air and Fire and the only real contrast between earth or water and fire.

Here are two more pictures from Fairies Tales, sort of my take on fairy tales from the fairies perspective. 

I noticed a number of art posts so I'm hopeful that its OK to post there here to see what feedback I get. These are pieces of concept art based on my research into fairies.







Due to my research into the original beliefs about fairies from the fairy tales which I'm translating or which have already been translated my artwork about them has become much more primal, thought I still hope I retain a certain amount of whimsy, charm and cuteness.

And lastly, for today, some of my actual art-work...namely, Masks.:


( Oh yeah, TONS of pics below!!Collapse )