Only a week now to Christmas Eve, and I promised some more images from Hosan Nadolig, so here you are.
First up is a detail of one of my favourites from the book, illustrating the story of Papa Panov. The version in the book is actually a retelling (by Cynthia Saunders Davies) of a classic Leo Tolstoy story. For an English language version go here, and you will see which element of the heart-warming tale I latched onto for my painting.
Below is the complete painting.
The originals for all fifteen pictures in the book are 290mm wide x 230mm high (so a little over A4 in size) and are oil paint on board.
This next one is for another classic story retold. Y Llygoden Fach Lwyd or Little Grey Mouse, originally by Janet McNeill is here recreated by Alwena Williams, and it is the tale of a mouse experiencing the magic of Christmas of the first time, where the cottage cat doesn't eat her, and where, up in the Christmas tree she sees all kinds of wonders, including three chocolate mice. At the top of the tree the angel takes her under her wing and they watch the proceedings together. So, although we know the angel is a doll, I wanted to give her some semblance of being alive so those big blue eyes might just be real!
Finally, another fun image, another figure from a Christmas tree come alive, this time a fairy who is tempted to sample the mince pies, and has rather too many, falls from the tree breaking a bauble on the way and gets a sore head and crumpled wing into the bargain. The stories were all good fun to illustrate, and the resulting book is a very handsome hardback, which you can get from here
I hope you like the pictures, let me know! :-)
TTFN
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