Yggdrasil

(Yggdrasil: Squirrel Mail, C.nick Arach 2011)

For those of you who are not familiar with Norse myth, an ash tree called Yggdrasil is the world tree its roots reach the nine worlds, Midgard, Asgard, Hel and Nifelheimr etc. At the top sits an eagle and at the bottom lays Níðhöggr a serpent/dragon, carrying hostile messages between the two is a squirrel called Ratatoskr. As you can see I have drawn a more realistic interpretation of Yggdrasil and I hope you enjoy the different perception.

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Gwrach y Rhibyn

         (Gwrach y Rhibyn, C.nick Arach 2011)

The Gwrach y Rhibyn is a Banshee like figure (though a little more violent) from welsh legend. Families that have been in Wales for centuries (the "true" welsh) are said to have the Gwrach y Rhibyn vist them when one of them dies.

Calan Gaeaf Hapus,

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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

(A Prayer for Christmas Eve, C.nick Arach, 2010)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fourteenth century alliterative poem and this scene depicts Gawain finding a castle in the distance on Christmas eve, after he has prayed for a place for mass . The castle and the armour is fourteenth century same as the poem.

"Thus in peril and pain and plights hard through the
country wanders this knight all alone til Christmas eve. At that tide to
Mary he made moan that she might direct his riding and lead him to

some dwelling."

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by W.A. Neilson




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The Black Cat

(The Black Cat, C.nick Arach, 2010)

This is inspired from the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It is about a man's decent into crazyness, he ends up killing his wife and bricking up her body but he mistakenly bricks up the black cat as well. I intended it to feel surpressing and claustrophobic as little streams of light come through a crack in the wall.

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Top's Jump

(Top's Jump, C.nick Arach, 2010)

This sketch is from Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island". It shows Top (the dog) jumping in the balloon in a storm during the group's departure. The balloon tells the story of their stay on the island.

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Through the Fish Glass

(Through the Fish Bowl, C.nick Arach, 2010)

This is a sketch of a fish looking at himself in the side of his bowl and seeing the kid staring at him.

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The Weighing of the Brain

Your brain is made up of two hemispheres a left and a right, these sides of the brain control different functions. It is the difference between literal and contextual, exact and approximate, optimism and pessimism.

Why have I opened a post this way? Because my sketch depicts a judging of the hemispheres. It's bare bones right now but when I paint it, I hope to base the figures off the different gods and goddesses that control logic, wisdom and creativity, inspiration.

(The Weighing of the Hemispheres, C.nick Arach, 2010)

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