#folktaleweekbone — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folktaleweekbone, aggregated by home.social.
-
For #FolktaleWeekBone #FolktaleWeek2024 I illustrated the Slavic #fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful with the skull lantern. Before her mother’s death, she gave Vasilisa a wooden doll & told her to keep it secret & with her always & whenever she needed help or comfort to offer the doll food & water & seek her help & the doll would provide. The doll helped her with her grief after her mother’s death. 🧵1/n
#folktale #linocut #printmaking #VasilisaTheBeautiful #BabaYaga #illustration #MastoArt
-
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