This week’s Art Journal Adventure prompt was to take inspiration from mythology, folk stories, and fairy tales. If you are thinking to yourself that the prompt seems right up my street that is because it is. Precisely so in fact. That is because I was asked by Bonnie and Barbara to be a guest artist this week. I was flattered and honoured to do so and, of course, that meant it was up to me to choose the prompt. You can find my post on the Joggles blog here and that outlines my process, illustrated with photos, in creating this art journal page.
I chose a selkie as the subject of my art journal page. Selkies are creatures from my country’s mythology (and that of Ireland) and I grew up hearing tales of seals that could transform into people, of stolen seal skins, and wives who fled back to the sea. I draw them quite often and have featured art work inspired by them twice on my blogs: once as a mixed media painting of a selkie in seal form and once in my altered book of monsters. I think this is my favourite of the mixed media selkies I have painted so far.
A Pict in PA 