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Keeping a folklore sketchbook: a practice
A research-led sketchbook practice for folklore artists: copy real sources by hand, draw from primary art, and track provenance so the cliché…
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Category: <span>Fantasy Art</span>
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Colour and symbol in folklore illustration
How palette and motif carry meaning in folklore illustration — grounded in what the sources actually name, with a caution against inventing…
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The Victorian fairy painting tradition
Richard Dadd, John Anster Fitzgerald and Joseph Noel Paton and the Victorian fairy-painting craze — a 19th-century movement, not a window on…
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Drawing Cú Chulainn and the Táin: a reference for artists
Drawing Cú Chulainn from the Táin's own words — the ríastrad, the Gáe Bolg and the three-coloured hair — not the familiar…
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Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic art revival
Jim Fitzpatrick's Book of Conquests and The Silver Arm gave Irish myth its modern face — a "Celtic" style that is a…
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How to Feature Folklore in Illustration Without Flattening the Culture
A craft-and-ethics guide to illustrating folklore with specificity — research, sourcing and crediting — using Rackham, Alan Lee and Jim Fitzpatrick as…
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Where to Find Public-Domain Manuscript Art for Folklore Work
A working map of the real digitised manuscript collections — the Book of Kells, ISOS, the British Library — and an honest…
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Drawing the Morrígan: A Folklore-Accurate Reference Guide for Artists
What the Irish sources actually describe about the Morrígan — the washer at the ford, the red charioteer, the shapeshifter — versus…
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Folklore in illustration: from Arthur Rackham to now
A tour of folklore illustration from Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen to Alan Lee, Charles Vess and Jackie Morris: real artists, real…