Fand, Irish Sea Goddess

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I sketched this art work of Fand, Irish sea goddess, out a year ago. I have nearly finished painting it. Mostly, I have to work on the really fine details in the knot work border. That will take the most of what work is left at this point. Fand is sitting up on a rock looking at her ring, in the background are the cliffs. Here I have formed Fand as a mermaid. I will go into more details later.

I am using some really bright colors, and playing with some new and challenging textures, as well as new designs and beasts in the knotwork. It can be hard to find the right balance in my illustrations. That is where to hold back details for the purpose of emphasizing by contrast the main subjects. Well I will go into more detail on the key points of the illustration when I finish it. Hopefully Fand will be finished in October.

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Riddles I

Riddles I

Far away the water run
through the wild wood
the wind is cracking
the chimes all laughing
and this is where I’ve stood
still in the sun
still in the rain
And times passing is little again

© Brenda D. Baker

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Elemental Triskeles

Spirals have been a recurring theme this summer. It started with some inspiration to start playing with them in knotwork triskeles. The first knotwork art triskele I did had such a strong water feel, that I decided to do an Irish element tripdict of them. While I was working to birth the forms in line art, a friend and I had a discussion about clockwise and counterclockwise movements in spirals and such. I am surprised at how controversial an idea counterclockwise movement are for some witches and pagans. I will go more into that another time.

Then in July, while in Florida, I was looking at artifacts in a museum and reflecting on how many early cultures used spirals in their spiritual art. From there I started researching information from archeoastronomy sources. While some believe the influence of triskeles and spirals was purely a continental celtic art influence, I disagree. After all, before the celtic people were in Ireland, spirals art was being carved out on sacred sources. For that matter it was before the pyramids were built in Giza.

Now I just have to break canvas, and get to painting them. In the meantime here are the rough forms below.

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