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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Here’s the latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children & coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom & comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved and ridiculed. 🧵

My 8” x 8” linocut print with 4.5” x 6” printed area in dark blue ink shows La Befana, a crone or which standing on an tiled Italian rooftop by a chimney, carrying a large hamper of toys on her back. She’s wearing a dress with patched apron and patchwork shawl and pointed witch hat. She has scraggly hair, wrinkled face and large eyes that look directly at the viewer. The night sky behind includes stars and crescent moon.
#linocut#printmaking#Epiphany
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The Alchemist

As some of you may recall, it was this October that I decided to relaunch my website and try to give the pottery a go.

A month later, our postal service decided to strike. Things were going well till then, but today I accept the fact any holiday sales are lost, and we won't be getting our Christmas box from home.

If you can boost this post and follow so that more people can see my work, it'd mean a lot at this stressful time.

A dark green raku pottery vase with some hints of gold, metallics and reds.
A light blue raku vase with red and golds
A raku owl with greens, red and iridescent effects.
A red and white raku vase. 51st state... No thank you.
#art#pottery#raku
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Rachel Wright

Another sunny day for the #ArtAdventCalendar.

I'm frankly astonished by this one. It's absolutely not a subject I would choose - it involves painting people, eek! - and I did it as part of an online workshop, all of which would normally result in something that would go in the bin, and certainly not be shown to anyone!

But this is atmospheric, I think, and if not actually accurate, it is at least lively.

A watercolour of the terrace of a restaurant. The tables are shaded by awnings, and the deep shadows beneath them show it's a bright day.
#Watercolours#AlwaysLearning
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar post!

Next in my series of somewhat darker holiday folklore cards is Mari Lwyd, a traditional Welsh hobby horse in a field. As part of a wassailing tradition from south Wales, a hobby horse made of a horse skull on a pole, decorated with buttons and ribbons, with sack cloth shrouding the poll and porter is carried through the local area at Christmas time. 🧵1/n

My linocut is green and reads “Season’s Greetings” above and “Mari Lwyd” below and shows the hobby horse with horse skull, bedecked in flowers and ribbons. There are fields behind.
#linocut#printmaking#holidays
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: The first in my series of somewhat darker holiday folklore: my linocut Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn of Iceland, a gigantic monster cat looming over a tiny cabin, with a wreath on the door, in a snowy, nighttime woodland scene.

The first written accounts of Jólakötturinn, enforcer of good behaviour leading up to Christmas, date to the 19th century but the stories of the monster cat likely date 🧵

My linocut Yule Cat, a giant cat on a tiny snow covered cabin in a pine forest is printed in dark blue with “Yule Cat” above & “Jólakötturinn” below.
#linocut#printmaking#Yule
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 2: my hand-printed aluminum foil lithographic print of a wolpertinger, a composite creature from German folklore. A mythical deer-hare hybrid, something like a jackalope, often described as a fanged hare with antlers, bird parts (like wings or feet or even beaks) and other small mammal parts like those from a fox, pine marten or, as in this case, a squirrel body. 🧵1/n

Detail of my wolpertinger (fanged, winged hare with antlers and squirrel tail) print made with kitchen litho in black, green and yellow on cream coloured washi paper with bark inclusions. It has a black outline, green fur and yellow striped open wings.
#printmaking#wolpertinger#kitchenlithography
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