A couple of sketches for #mermay! 
Just to keep my toe in on it 
Showing posts with label mermaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mermaid. Show all posts
18/05/2021
11/05/2021
31/07/2020
20/07/2020
National Doodle Day entry
I've had the @epilepsyaction #nationaldoodleday pack sat next to me for ages but finally got round to putting pencil to paper! This doodle will be part of an auction 25th September so I'll do another post nearer the time! :)
07/07/2020
Minstrel and Mermaid
Minstrels popped up again when I should be doing something else! He has a habit of doing that
Here he is with the band, but where's Mermaid?
Here he is with the band, but where's Mermaid?
18/06/2020
Minstrel and Mermaid
Minstrel and Mermaid Venetian pair popped up again as a warm down illustration this evening!
(See my previous posts to see who they are!)
(See my previous posts to see who they are!)
10/06/2020
05/06/2020
29/05/2020
19/05/2020
13/05/2020
12/05/2020
08/11/2019
Folktale week
#folktaleweek day 5! This is the Mermaid of Marden.
There's a church in the Herefordshire village of Marden and it lost its bell once upon a time thanks to an enthusiastic priest ringing it so hard the rope eventually frayed and it fell into the river and a mermaid made her home in it. She refused to give it back as the priest would wake her up everyday with its loud ringing. The villagers came up with an idea to use rowan tethers to tie 12 ox and yew goads to drive them to pull out the bell. They had to do it all in utter silence. They used hooks to silently locate the bell, rope to tie the hook to the oxen to heave the bell out. They did and they saw the mermaid fast asleep inside. The priest shouted out in excitement waking her up. She went into a fury breaking the rope from the bell and in fell the bell again followed by the mermaid, she retorted how shed have dragged the ox too if it wasn't for the fact they were tethered with rowan and the villagers had yew rods. In 1848 the village pond was cleared in Marden and they found an ancient bell that was used by the Celtic church. Was this the one from the legend? You can see it for yourself in the Hereford Museum. (I drew a more modern bell as it looked nicer for the illo!)
There's a church in the Herefordshire village of Marden and it lost its bell once upon a time thanks to an enthusiastic priest ringing it so hard the rope eventually frayed and it fell into the river and a mermaid made her home in it. She refused to give it back as the priest would wake her up everyday with its loud ringing. The villagers came up with an idea to use rowan tethers to tie 12 ox and yew goads to drive them to pull out the bell. They had to do it all in utter silence. They used hooks to silently locate the bell, rope to tie the hook to the oxen to heave the bell out. They did and they saw the mermaid fast asleep inside. The priest shouted out in excitement waking her up. She went into a fury breaking the rope from the bell and in fell the bell again followed by the mermaid, she retorted how shed have dragged the ox too if it wasn't for the fact they were tethered with rowan and the villagers had yew rods. In 1848 the village pond was cleared in Marden and they found an ancient bell that was used by the Celtic church. Was this the one from the legend? You can see it for yourself in the Hereford Museum. (I drew a more modern bell as it looked nicer for the illo!)
30/05/2019
10/05/2019
09/05/2019
Mermay
Another uneditable all kindsa want to change addition from the sketchbook for #mermay (I kinda like how you can just see the ghost of my previous start underneath though!) 🧜
03/05/2019
02/05/2019
31/05/2018
30/05/2018
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