As a child, I used to draw fairies, me with wings and the likes. Now, as I grew up I stopped drawing faires maybe because I realized tha I'm really not the artistic type (yes, to be honest my drawings are like for grade-schoolers. haha). But my sister, who draws really great, is now taking place. I'm so happy and proud with her art ... She draws fairies most of the time, too. Well, maybe just like me she's a fairy fan. I can say that a lot of the little girls out there believe in faires so they express their belief for fairies into art.
I have seen quite a lot of art about faires. But, Ida Mary Walker Larsen caught my attention. I saw some of her creations at The Fairy Gatherings site and it was awesome. In that site, it has the creations of the artist, the biography and what inspires the artist to use faires as their art.
Ida Mary Walker shared that "Fantasy, nature and mythology are themes that inspire me the most. Dragons, fairies, trolls and elves are creatures of my world" . I also loved the thing that she said in her painting, she said that "Almost every child has a secret garden or spot in the forest - A place that is their own, full of magic and wonders ... We should all be able to be more like kids sometimes, full of wonder of the small things in life ..."
I admit, the first thing that really caught my attention was the painting entitled 'The Secret Forest'. It looks really ingenious and somehow peculiar. I loved it when I first saw it. Plus, I agree to what she had said that we should be able to be more like kids sometimes, don't you love the feeling of being a kid again? Less stress, less pressure and we get happy easily. It's also amazing that she shared to us that fairies are one of the creatures of her world.
The second art that I really like is Cottingley Fairies. I saw a site named fictive arts that tells about the story of the Cottingley Fairies, on how they saw the fairies, the story during the photo was taken, after the photo was taken, how the public react on it and some how how other people respond to it.
It is stated on the site that "The Cottingley fairy photos can be considered a precursor of fictive art because of the girls' deliberate use of photography's evidentiary status to support their fictional account of encounters with fairies."
It is stated on the site that the Cottingleys admitted that four out of five images were fake. The photos were really great, when I first saw it I was deceived. I really thought that fairies were real in the photos. At first I was really amazed by the article that I first saw about the Cottingley fairies, because they never mentioned that the Cottingley spilled the fact that the four photos were fake. But then, I saw this article that tells me it's just an art, and it's really amazing. But they also claimed that the fifth picture (below) was real. So, there's still hope in fairies. We can still find a fairy just like the Cottingley cousins.
If only I can draw well, I will surely draw fairies. Fairies really inspire a lot of people, including me, in terms of art. Well, for me, it is really nice to look at the fairy paintings. I can appreciate really well the art in fairies. I think I can still make an art about fairies but I think it would be by the help of the technology, I hope that the children in our generation gets inspired to fairies also, so that the art in fairies will continue and it won't die.
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