My favorite sort of thread has a barely controlled randomness. That being whatever delightful thing pops into your head.
The focus, broad and perhaps fuzzy, is animals: actual, mythical, imaginary, allegorical, and so forth. . .
Three examples:
My favorite sort of thread has a barely controlled randomness. That being whatever delightful thing pops into your head.
The focus, broad and perhaps fuzzy, is animals: actual, mythical, imaginary, allegorical, and so forth. . .
Three examples:
Jon Szanto (December 20th, 2021), Sailor Kenshin (December 26th, 2021), Yazeh (December 17th, 2021)
Chip (December 17th, 2021), Cyril (April 29th, 2022), Schaumburg_Swan (December 24th, 2021), Stands on Feet (December 17th, 2021), Yazeh (December 17th, 2021)
I'll take a chronological approach, with a newly-discovered species of extinct felo-reptilian: the Kittysaurus.
Yazeh (December 17th, 2021)
Happy Holidays!
When we visited Great Blasket Island, off the Dingle in Kerry, there were seals frolicking in the breaking waves. Kept my eye out for a wee selkie, but no luck.
If you don't know what a selkie might be, here's a clue:
Jon Szanto (December 20th, 2021)
Hope you like it. It's a sweet-natured film that treats a legend in a matter-of-fact way, free of hocus-pocus and CG awfulness.
Instead of thinking about Christmas, elves, reindeer, etc. I've been thinking about unicorns.
There are many images of the beast in artwork over the ages, leading up to the sparkly-pink kiddie verions of the present day.
One old story has it that the way to catch a unicorn is to take a virgin into the forest and have her wait, holding a mirror. When the unicorn approaches, it will be hypnotised by its mirror image.
my own interpretation of a therizinosaurus.
catbert (December 20th, 2021), Chip (December 20th, 2021), Sailor Kenshin (December 26th, 2021)
Lovely concept for the thread, Chip - thanks! Here's a drawing done by a friend of mine (with a fountain pen) when he found out I was happy with a new instrument:
Last edited by Jon Szanto; December 20th, 2021 at 12:30 AM.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Jon Szanto (December 20th, 2021)
Jon– that is brilliant! Heaps of thanks.
Last edited by Chip; December 20th, 2021 at 05:39 PM.
Jon Szanto (December 20th, 2021)
Christof– Great drawing. Here's another phantasmagorical reptilian—
Sailor Kenshin (December 26th, 2021), Yazeh (December 22nd, 2021)
More about the unicorn.
The Vikings sold and traded the tusks of the narwhal, an arctic sea mammal unknown in medieval Europe. The tusks were seen as proof of the existence of unicorns.
"In all likelihood, the Vikings initially got the horn they traded from the Inuit, though they themselves would have hunted the whale for its horn as well. At one time, it is surmised that a Viking traded a horn with a European trader who assumed that it came from a unicorn, and thus the myth was born. As this whale lived only in the far north, the Vikings were able to exploit the legend of the unicorn and the belief that the narwhal’s horn held magical properties. By Medieval times, people firmly believed that unicorn horn had magical properties. It was said that a cup carved from unicorn horn would protect the person drinking from it; they could never be poisoned, as the cup neutralized any poison placed in it. The horn was also supposed to cure melancholia or depression."
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/...unicorn-horns/
How about a Goldfink?
...or the Groucho fish?
catbert (December 21st, 2021), Chip (December 21st, 2021), eachan (December 21st, 2021), Jon Szanto (December 21st, 2021), Yazeh (December 22nd, 2021)
A favorite illustrator, Chiara Bautista, has done a series of imaginative unicorn drawings.
I make up stories to go with her drawings. Feel free—
Stands on Feet (December 21st, 2021), Yazeh (December 22nd, 2021)
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