Monday, 9 December 2013

fairy tales

Artsy Craftsy is a website that showcases art work based on myths, fairy tale and legends. Most of the pieces are hand drawn and later transformed in to illustrations. It introduces tons of artists but you can't avoid the small similarities between their styles. 

Flora Builds Her Summerhouse by Kay Nielsen 
from The Pot of Pinks

Flora Builds her Summerhouse, The Pot of Pinks - Kay Nielsen

The Sugar Plum Tree by Maxfield Parrish
from the poem of the same name by Eugene Field in Poems of Childhood


It Was Their Last Hour by Emma Florence Harrison
from Guinevere by Tennyson

Guinevere and Lancelot

Medea by Edmund Dulac 
from the Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur


The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Dore
from Plate 6: The Ice was All Around

The Ice was All Around - from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - by Gustave Dore (Jonnard, engraver)

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