my pc broke :O
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yuleicorns
watercolor
7x10 in
hear me out - nordic unicorns.
[image description: a watercolor illustration of two fluffy white and tan unicorns. the landscape around them is snowy with mountains and conifers, with a river of partially melted snow between them. the one in the foreground has their head lowered toward the stream. end image description.]
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Lady Olwen and the Unicorn
Some Deep thoughts I was having while painting this piece below:
Unicorns in medieval art sometimes represented the chastity and purity women were expected to maintain, but also the game of courty love. In order to slay a unicorn, a maiden was to sit out and wait for the creature to find her, then the hunter nearby would strike. Obviously this is just an allegory for sex and the loss of virginity from a deeply patriarchal society. It also illustrated the expectation of women's roles in courtly love in the period.
It reminds me of the purity culture I grew up in, to be honest. I heard stories like this, cautionary tales that growing up and becoming a woman was like the violent killing of a sacred creature. The point of this piece became very therapeutic for me, and served more to heal something that had been hurt a long time ago.
I've also been in love with the Unicorn Tapestries since I was a teenager I wanted to draw a woman surrounded and protected by these motifs. Obviously she's not a virgin, but she is still deemed worthy of a visit from a unicorn.
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"She has a newness. Everything is for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how she draws her breath and lets it go again, as though no one else in the world knew that air was good. It is all for her. If I learned that she had been born this very morning, I would only be surprised that she was so old."
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Painted with my In Bloom Procreate brushes (see bio)!
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Chipi is just too small…
(I'm small too and can't reach the top of the supermarket shelves ^^°)
I've created this page mainly with watercolors :3
Please do not repost, recreate, use, edit or trace my art - Thanks! ♪
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Wisptober Day 22: Meld
"The two siblings had been created by melding so many creatures together that they did not remember what their original form had been."
This one was a hard one! I spent most of the morning trying to come up with something.XD (I can only blame myself for choosing that prompt...)
BUT yeah Chimeras!! plus I haven’t done a unicorn piece this year yet.;)
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The Unicorn Rests in a Garden 🦄🌸
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Not so alone
This was inspired by an article about a narwhal that had started swimming with a pod of belugas. Vision for this painting came to me right then, but only now almost two years later I was able to conjure this fully on paper! Sometimes things take longer and that's okay!
You do not have permission to repost, copy or steal my art in any form, including AI thievery!
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How about we all take a little fall frolic? As a treat~
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Ramona, from Unicorn Overlord - ink sketch with Watercolor and Poster Colors
Process Video Here
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One of my favorite movies when I was a kid :)
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magical creature
watercolor
7x10in
when i was 7 or 8 i made this collage. on the back in purple crayon it says "magical creature. she is flying very high. she is colorful."
recreating it today has been healing. the one i made today might not be quite so colorful on the outside, but. she's got a rainbow heart i think.
[image description: two pictures of a magical creature - a horse with wings and a unicorn horn. the first one is made by a child and is a colorful collage. the second one is a watercolor illustration washed in warm tones, as if the creature flies in the sunrise or sunset. some birds fly with her. end image description.]
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