Netta sometimes get very peculiar visitors at her tiny hut in the middle of the woods, but she tries to care for all of them. Even if they’re a little unnerving.
Illustration I painted in early 2017 (originally posted in my patreon).
Ugh still thinking about this beautiful movie ❤ Thank you Guillermo Del Toro ❤ I haven’t been painterly in a long while. Too busy with work and such but took some time aside to get back into it! I have several unfinished thumbs, will post them to patreon and hopefully finish one day- but in the meantime- enjoy ❤ -COEY! ___ Prints: https://www.etsy.com/listing/586435663
What mortal could rescue Tam Lin from that shadow life but Janet who loved him? She told him she would save him isf she could, and Tam Li described how the mortal must challenge the power of the Fairy Queen. Then he faded into the sun-speckled forest.
From Time-Life Books’s Fairies and Elves, part of The Enchanted World Series, 1984. Illustration by Jill Karla Schwarz
Confession: This is the first place I encountered the story of Tam Lin, and where I fell in love with it. I will freely admit it was largely because of the beautiful illustrations, particularly the last one.
The bare-chested, disheveled Tam Lin resting under Janet’s mantle just caught my attention. I was ten, maybe eleven years old at the time. Thirty years later, seventeen years of running a website, forty four versions of the ballad, more than a dozen related stories, a couple of citations in articles and theses, pages of analysis, maps, well over a hundred books, plays, articles… and here’s the images that kicked that off for me. Enjoy.
Monsters and Villains 