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#folktaleweek2025 day 6 storm

Most of the tales she reads are about adventures and wild storms. The one raging outside isn’t so bad especially not when Nasty can stay here, safe and warm, with her friends. Then she likes to imagine a sky heavy with clouds, with leaves and lightning swirling across it. Her mind always spins the wildest tales.

#neonftw

An illustration depicting a stormy scene with dark, swirling clouds and a red neon moon at the center. Lightning strikes are shown in purple, while winds create swirling patterns. A mouse character wearing a white hooded outfit, with a round face and big eyes and ears looks in the sky.

My cover page for Folktaleweek with all the prompts. It shows a piece of wall with a mouse hole, partially illuminated by a beam of light. Two eyes glow from the darkness of the hole.

Earlier stage in the process with lots of wild colours on the page. Really, this doesn’t look like anything just a dark splotch of muddy colour 😂

#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."

#KidLit #kidlitart #digitalart #folktaleweek2025

The little Fallen Star, looks at a book somebody forgot at the bottom of the sea.

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

#illustration #polarBear #aurora #folktaleWeek #mastoArt

#linocut #printmaking #fairytale

My 8” x 10” Lino block print ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon.’ It shows a standing polar bear facing forward with one arm around a girl with braids in a dress and a bell between his paws. It’s printed in a dark blue-black. The girl has round pink cheeks. There’s a hint of silver for the bell. Behind the bear the aurora glows green.

#folktaleweek2025 day 5 charm

To remember where she left off the night before, Nasty uses a charm as a bookmark. She received it from Magpie, Hawk, and Sparrow. Three beautiful feathers that mark her place and guide her back into the story.

#folktaleweek #folktaleweekcharm #mixedmedia #sketchbook #illustration

Abstract artwork featuring feathers in blue tones, with hints of coral and soft textures. The word "Charm" is prominently displayed, alongside hashtags related to Folktale Week.

Process pic with the stencil I used to add some texture

the boy climbed onto the table. The water continued to rise higher and higher and would have flooded all of Yorkshire had the master not recalled that he had left the book unlocked and he returned home as the water reached the boy’s chin. He spoke the right magic words and banished Beelzebub back to his fiery home!

#FolktaleWeek2025

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Word: Night

The longest night in the wolfmarches is a festival.

Here's the text for these who want or need alt-text.
Winter Festival
The winter festival in Wolfmark is held around the midwinter, and reaches its climax on the longest night in the Wolfmarches, in the lighting of the bonfires.
Preparations usually begin alongside the general preparations for winter, extra wood and food are stored away for the festivities. Clothes are mended, and small gifts prepared for friends and family. Gifts are handed over once the fires are lit, presented in little cloth or leather bags, neatly decorated with woven ribbons. Often the decoration and artful stitching takes more time and dedication than the creation of the gift inside. Common gifts are sweets, fruits, and good-luck charms for the new year.

The celebration begins the day before midwinter, when people gather to decorate their village with ribbons and fir tree branches. In the evening people gather for drinking, feasting and storytelling. At night the fires are lit and presents are exchanged. The fires are kept burning for two days.

The original tradition of the festival comes from the goblins native to the Wolfmarches. The goblin tribes have a tradition named Public Praising by the humans. They honour the deeds of one another and celebrate them. The humans adopted this tradition albeit a bit differently, they too praise their fellow humans, but since they are not as open about their feelings like goblins, this can lead to silent resentment or feeling of being treated unfair and unseen. A saying is:"There are many quarrels after the bonfire's last night, but the wind carries the ashes away." meaning that by Public Praising and also fuelled by the alcohol drunk, there are many arguments, sometimes even brawls among the humans. Still, everyone usually wishes to start into the new year without holding a grudge, thus reconciliation is common as well.

On the second day it is the time of the storytellers to shine and tell many a tale about the Wolfmarches, the recent events or funny fairy tales. For an unknown reason it is believed that telling fairy tales or tales with a fairy inside at noon is bad luck, so people tell these early in the morning when the children are awake or they share the more cautious or gruesome tales about the fairy folk late at night, once the children are asleep.

On this day people begin slowly to tidy up, the fires are left to burn low, but each person lights a torch on candle and takes it home to light their hearth. Guests who will travel home on this day are presented with a candle lit at the fire, or a pot with still-glowing ash to carry the shine and warmth to their homes.
By evening only the fir-tree branches decorated with ribbons remain, they are left hanging until the first melting of the snow, the beginning of spring, as a reminder of the warm and bright fires to carry the people through the harsh winter nights ahead.

Thanks for reading! If you spotted a grammar or spelling error, please tell me so I can improve my English! 🙏

#folktaleweek2025 #fantasy #wolfmark
#writing #writingCommunity #worldbuilding

#folktaleweek2025 day 4 book

Nasty loves the library and even more so when it rains. That’s when all her friends come to visit, to read and dream together. They light tiny lamps and dive into the pages of their favorite books.

Played a game with some friends and they had some really fun ideas, what do you think they‘d read?

#folktaleweek #folktaleweekbook #illustration #sketchbook #mixedmedia

An illustration depicting a whimsical booknook scene. A mouse character balancing many books is at the center, surrounded by a grasshopper reading, two birds engrossed in a book, and a cheerful wyrm, a spider and ladybird. The backdrop features bookshelves and warm lighting, enhancing the cozy atmosphere.

#FolktaleWeek Day 3: #Rain

#MastoArt #folktaleweek2025 #FolktaleweekRain #Watercolor #Painting

Watercolor of what it looks like when you glance outside on a day so rainy everything is reduced to blurry blues, greens, & pinks.

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

My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.

Thick streams gather on the windowpane, and the rain slides down leaves, bushes, and trees in a swirling, restless dance.

#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #sketchbook #mixedmedia #illustration

A colorful illustration depicting a rainy window with vibrant autumn leaves visible through the glass. Water droplets streak down the surface, and the word "Rain" is prominently displayed. A silhouette of a mouse is seen in the foreground, adding to the cozy atmosphere.

An open sketchbook on a wooden table features two pages. One page displays a whimsical illustration of a mouse character with glasses and rosy cheeks, and the other page showcases a colorful design of leaves and flowers in vibrant hues.

#FolktaleWeek Day 2: #Echo

#MastoArt #folktaleweek2025 #FolktaleweekEcho #Landscape #Watercolor #Painting

Watercolor landscape mountains silhouetted against a purple-blue sky full of stars. The base of the mountains are covered in mist, which stretches out onto the water below.

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

my 8”x10” linocut shows a Yama orabi, a mythical bird like creature with an exceptionally large head and sharp pointy teeth hopping off a brown branch with green leaves in front of a grey and blue-grey mountain at sunset in a gradient of orange, yellow and green sky. The Yama orabi is yellow with an umber beak, red mouth and red plumage on its head.

Day 2 #folktaleweek2025
Echo

Then Nasty listens to all the sounds whispering beneath the old wooden floorboards, the rustling of leaves outside the window, and tonight, to the raindrops tapping against the glass. That soft echo trickles slowly into Nasty’s ears.

#MastoArt #folktaleweek #folktaleweekecho #sketchbook #illustration

An illustrated character with closed eyes, big ears and short hair and a dreamy expression, wearing glasses and a cozy sweater. The background features soft colors and abstract shapes of waterdrops. The words "Echo" and "tropf" are incorporated into the design.

An illustrative drawing of a character with glasses and rosy cheeks is displayed on a white page, accompanied by a sketch in pencil on a nearby page. Various colored pens and pencils are scattered around on a wooden surface.

#FolktaleWeek is here again! It surprised me this year, I missed the announcement
Day 1: #Night

#MastoArt #folktaleweek2025 #FolktaleweekNight #Sky #Watercolor #Painting

Watercolor of a full moon glowing in partly-cloudy night sky.

For #FolktaleWeek2025 I wanted to once again make sure I included some Canadian #folklore. So for Day 1 prompt Night I knew what to illustrate!

This hand-carved, hand-printed linocut on lovely Japanese paper illustrates the famous French Canadian folktale of the Chasse-galerie, or the Flying Canoe. The tale tells of some hardworking voyageurs in their timber camp, who miss their sweethearts back home, 100 leagues away. 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #FolktaleWeekNight #NewYearsEve #mastoArt

My Lino block print shows a night sky with moon and clouds and flying canoe full of paddling voyageurs over rolling countryside with fields and trees covered in snow and a church steeple in the foreground. The moon is covered with grey craters and shadows. The sky with scattered clouds is in a range of golden-green near the moon to minty bluish-green away from the moon. The foreground, canoe and its occupants are in black. The numbered 11”x14” print is titled “La Chasse-galerie” and signed Ele Willoughby 2025.

Folktale week 2025 - Night 🌃

This time I tried to create a dark fantasy comic based on the folktale week themes. I hope you like it 🧡

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #comicartist #comicart #illustration

Nasty is not an early riser. Her days begin when the last streak of light slips beyond the horizon and night settles over her library.

#folktaleweek #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleweeknight day 1 Night #MastoArt #sketchbook

A whimsical illustration featuring a tall window with a stained glass design, casting a bright neon like glow. The interior includes bookshelves on either side and a small black mouse sitting by the window. The scene is set in a dimly lit room with a starry sky. The stars reach into the library

A workspace featuring a colored pencil and watercolour drawing in an open sketchbook and a smaller version of the same scene in just pencil of a large arched window with a view of a library interior.

I’m almost ready… #FolktaleWeek2025 starts tomorrow! I’ve only got a sketch for the last prompt. I’m going to do my best to complete a print for the final day and I am excited to post my #folktale and #fairytale inspired new work and see all the gorgeous illustrations from everyone!

#illustration #art #myth #legend #polarBear #aurora #mastoArt

This image shows my framed circular artwork with text. The artwork shows a hand painted polar bear in Renaissance garb with a large white coat made from multiple collaged white patterned Japanese papers and a silver ruff on a snowy landscape made with collaged papers on a nautical chart of the Arctic Ocean. Above is the Aurora made with flowing cut translucent washi. In curved blue text it reads “Folktale Week 2025”. Surrounding the pale gold frame is a circle of silver text reading: 1. Night 2. Echo 3. Rain 4. Book 5. Charm 6. Storm 7. Dawn

Time to give this # some Bluesky love 🧵by @debrastyer.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing all the #FolktaleWeek2025 contributions from the community #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday #BookologyThursday #MythologyMonday @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social

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I decided I wanted to include some Canadian folklore again this year for Folktale Week, do I knew that for the prompt #FolktaleWeekNight, I wanted to depict New Year’s Eve.

Many Canadians will recognize, especially in Québec, la Chasse-galerie in this block in progress!

#FolktaleWeek2025 #ChasseGalerie #flyingCanoe #wildHunt #folktales #folklore #Canada

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