#folktaleweek — Public Fediverse posts

Another 2025 print for #artAdventCalendar, here’s one I made for Folktale Week: My 8” x 10” hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print illustration of the beloved fairytale East of the Sun, West of the Moon shows the bewitched polar bear prince holding the charm, a magic silver bell along with his bride with the aurora in the night sky beyond them. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #fairytale #illustration #polarBear #EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon #aurora #folktale #folktaleWeek #mastoArt

Better late than never so... my #FolktaleWeek2025 entries all gathered together, telling the story of the night the Princess Moon learned how to swim.

#kidlit #kidlitart #childrenslit #illustrations #Folktaleweek #shortstories

#FolkTaleWeek Day 7: Dawn

7. The stars and the Princess Moon dance to welcome the new day, and Brother Sun says a quick hello before the others go to bed.
In the Princess Moon's crown a gem shines. It tells of the adventures to come, once they all go swimming in the dark of the night sky.

#KidLit #kidliart #digitalart #illustrations

#FolkTaleWeek Day 6: Storm

5. "Come get me, my Sisters!" the little Fallen Star calls.
A storm of bright light transforms the night sky.
Fallen Star, charm in hand, repeats the spell she's uncovered.
Soon, the Princess Moon will join them, swimming, diving, & splashing the hours away.

#KidLit #kidlitart #art #illustrations #childrensillustration

#FolkTaleWeek Day 5: Charm

5. Treasures are weird things. They hurt you if you trip over them, but they can also surprise you.
"What a strange thing..." The little Fallen Star say, while casually flipping through pages. "To find such a rare gem, and in a book of spells nonetheless!"

#KidLit #KidLitArt #illustrationsations

#FolkTaleWeek Day 4: Book

4. Strolling around, feet on soft sand, has its advantages. You see lots of new things, and if your lucky, you can even find a long lost treasure.
"Ouch!" the Fallen Star tripped over something flat and hard. "Who can have left this here? Reckless, that's who."

#KidLit #kidlitart #digitalart #folktaleweek2025

Day 5 of #FolktaleWeek2025 prompt is charm. My 8” x 10” hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print illustration of the beloved fairytale East of the Sun, West of the Moon shows the bewitched polar bear prince holding the charm, a magic silver bell along with his bride with the aurora in the night sky beyond them. Printed in dark blue ink, with fluorescent green northern lights, pink cheeks 🧵1/n

#illustration #polarBear #aurora #folktaleWeek #mastoArt

#linocut #printmaking #fairytale

#FolkTaleWeek Day 3: Rain

3. An angry cloud breaks the quiet into tiny loud pieces.
The Princess Moon jumps startled.
Big drops plunge into the sea. Bigger waves to come out to play.
"Oh, no!" The Fallen Star's fins are carried away. "Well, no better place to be than the bottom of the sea."

#KidLit #kidlitart

For Day 4 #FolktaleWeekBook my hand-tinted #linocut illustrates the English #fairytale ‘The Master and His Pupil.’

A learned man of the north lands who knew all the languages of the world and mysteries of creation, had a big black book with iron lock chained to a table and forbidden to all others which contained the secrets of the spiritual world including details of angels and demons.
🧵1/n

#illustration #printmaking #folktale #magic
#mastoArt #folktaleWeek

#FolkTaleWeek Day 2: Echo

2. In the quiet of the late hours, the Princess Moon sleeps.
Far, far away from the sky, the fallen star bobs in the waves.
Up and down she goes, listening to the bubbling echoes of the passerby fish. Pop, pop, pop!

#KidLit #KidLitart #illustrations

Starting a little late but trying to catch up #FolkTaleWeek
Day 1: Night

1. The Princess Moon, who have never learned how to swim, envy the little stars, who dive, splash, and float in the endless sea of the night sky.

#KidLit #KidLitart #illustrations #digitalart

Working on several new prints for #folktaleweek2025 …

A hint: a good place to find echoes is in the mountains. This first layer I made with a gel plate for the second prompt #FolktaleWeekEcho. Next up will be a #linocut.

The story of Echo and Narcissus is lovely but I wanted a more unusual story so I found a story about echoes from Japan.

#printmaking #wip #gelPlatePrinting #folktaleWeek #illustration #MastoArt

There’s always a lot of magic submissions and it’s open to all. Post your work during November 17 to 23 and tag it with #folktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek25 so we can see and share what everyone has created. This mainly occurs on Instagram but many, like me, will also be posting here. You should join!

#printmaking #washi #illustration #fairytale #folktale #childrensIllustrations

I made a Playlist on MakerTube for all the livestream recordings of my work in Procreate for this year's Folktale Week.

https://makertube.net/w/p/uyqsgLyZkgABdFiGUj5r3r

It's all the livestreams I made on Twitch and Makertube around the seven prompt words for this year: Mist, Gate, Blight, Trail, Depth, Bone, and Blossom.

#FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek2024 #MakerTube #Twitch #Art #Illustration #Procreate

Going live today, 1-4:00pm PST (UTC-7) on MakerTube and Twitch, where I’ll be wrapping up the Folktale Week event with the final prompt word: “Bloom.” I’ll be doing some illustrated page backgrounds inspired by the style of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

Soothing music, chill vibe, and tea! Lurkers welcome!

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

#livestream #MakerTube #Twitch #Art #FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeekBloom #Procreate

Today's 2024 Folktale Week word prompt is "Depth".

I turned to the work of Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh for inspiration, and came up with this. Little Red's cloak is billowing out around her in a stylized water-scape.

I then made it a greeting card!

https://goimagine.com/depth-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope

AND a free phone wallpaper! Enjoy!

You can see the livestream of when this piece was completed here:

https://makertube.net/w/iNU3Wp5fvPu1YphDn6wK1Y

#FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeek #art #MastoArt #greetingcards #indieartist #FediGiftShop #Wallpaper

Made my Trail image for my prompt word, "Trail", then three alternatives for #FolktaleWeek sorta (?) inspired by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

Adapted them into phone wallpaper versions, and riffed on the style. Some were better than others. Haha!

#FolktaleWeekTrail #FolktaleWeek24 #art #artnouveau #wallpaper #GlasgowFour #illustration

Today's #FolktaleWeek2024 prompt word is "Blight". I'm not sure how to make that pretty, personally, so I just used it as an opportunity to create a background image that frames a piece of text by living in the gutter of the page spread... I think it'll be quite useful and evocative when actually used as intended.

But here's a phone wallpaper version for you, just in case you like this particular tree on your phone! 😊

#FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeekBlight #art #MastoArt #illustration

Going live tonight on MakerTube and Twitch tonight 7-9:00pm PST (UTC-8), doing the prompt word “Bone” for #FolktaleWeek. Referring to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh for inspiration.

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

Soothing music, chill vibe, tea, and lurkers welcome!

#FolktaleWeek2024 #art #illustration

Here's my image inspired by the #FolktaleWeek prompt word, "Gate".

I thought about making it a picket fence with a gate, but they weren't popular until about a century after the period I'm setting my story in.

They were originally wooden tree trunk pikes. Yoicks. Brings whole new meaning to "good fences make good neighbors".

But then settled for a more magical mysterious sort of portal gate. It helped me imagine my variation of the Little Red tale in that sort of setting. Not sure this ultimately would end up being used, but it was a great exercise!

#FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeekGate

Here's last year's #FolktaleWeek images, as well as this year's first entry for the new one.

Last year's words were Lost, Ink, Sea, Sleep, Underground, Illusion, and Found.

I incorporated them into an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood I'm still developing in my head. Lots of great story twists and turns, and it was really useful.

This year, for #FolktaleWeek2024, I'm using the new prompt words to create background imagery to place underneath text. I'm happy with how they're turning out.

I probably won't be able to complete all seven new words by the end of the week, but since it's primarily an Instagram challenge to drive traffic to specific host accounts (and I left Instagram a long time ago) I'm not worried about deadlines. I took my own sweet time last year, and will do so this year, too.

So here's a phone wallpaper version of "Mist," originally for a page of text.

#FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeekMist #LittleRed #art #illustration #MastoArt

Today, I’m diving off the deep end as I develop an image for the #FolktaleWeek prompt word, “Depth”.

I’ll be attempting to use Scottish Art Nouveau’s “Glasgow Four” art as stylistic inspiration, fusing it with the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. In Procreate on my iPad Pro. Ahem.

1-4:00pm PST (UTC-8), on MakerTube and Twitch.

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

Join me for a chill vibe, soothing music, and tea! Lurkers are always welcome!

#livestream #art #GlasgowFour #Makertube #Twitch #illustration #FolktaleWeek2024

The penultimate prompt for #FolktaleWeek2024 is bone, and I immediately thought of Vasilisa the Beautiful carrying the skull lantern away from Baba Yaga’s hut (famously on chicken legs with a fence made of bone). Here’s the first block as carving begins.

I’m sure this story will be chosen by others for #FolktaleWeekBone too. It’s a popular one every #FolktaleWeek.

I was first introduced to the story by one of my best friends …🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #wip

I’m live-streaming tonight, 7-9:00pm PST (UTC-8) on MakerTube and Twitch, continuing work on Folktale Week. Chill vibe, tea, soothing music, and lurkers welcome!

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

#art #livestream #MakerTube #Twitch #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2024

Today on my livestream I’m doing more work inspired by the Scottish Art Nouveau movement of the Glasgow Four for #FolktaleWeek.

1-4:00pm PST (UTC-8). MakerTube and Twitch.

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

Soft music, chill vibe, & tea! Lurkers welcome!

#art #illustration #procreate #MakerTube #Twitch #streaming #livestream

I’m streaming live tonight, because it’s my happy place. 7-9:00pm PST (UTC-8) on MakerTube and Twitch. I’ll be doing the prompt word “Trail” for #FolktaleWeek. Join me for soothing music, tea, and a chill vibe!

https://makertube.net/w/ww2zPQGGtEL5qSWxjAYNnd

https://www.twitch.tv/coreyartus

#art #illustration #Folktaleweek2024 #streaming #livestream #MakerTube #Twitch