#folktaleweek2025 — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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For Day 6 of #FolktaleWeek2025 prompt #FolktaleWeekStorm:
In the Gaelic mythology of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, the divine old woman, or hag, created the landscape itself and the storms and weather of winter. Known by many names, she is the Cailleach (literally the old woman or hag) or Cailleach Bhéarra in Ireland, she is Cailleach Bheurra, or The Hag of Beara or Beira, Queen of Winter 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #folklore #folktale #mastoArt #Cailleach #GaelicMythology #winter #Beira
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#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." -
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
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Day 3 of #FolktaleWeek2025 prompt is rain. My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper, 11” x 14”.
There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, 🧵
#FolktaleWeekRain #linocut #printmaking #folklore #magpieBridge #folktale #magpie #qixi #mastoArt
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Day 2 #folktaleWeek2025 prompt is Echo.
Seeking less well-known folklore about echoes I found this Japanese echo yōkai.
This hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print illustrates the mythical Yama orabi (山おらび) or "mountain shouter," a small, tree-dwelling, birdlike yōkai or spirit who shouts replies, mimicking people's voices and repeating their words creating an echo. 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #yōkai #FolktaleWeekEcho #folklore #YamaOrabi #mastoArt
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Yama orabi- the mountain shouter is a terrifying Japanese echo yōkai. It mimics people’s yells in the mountain. It looks like a little bird with an exceptionally large head and sharp pointy teeth!
Work in progress for #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleWeekEcho
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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