Navvies

Original 9" x 12" acrylic on stretched canvas painting of laborers, digging a hole. Inspired by a turn of the century photo of the same subject. Navvies at My Good Babushka

Ivy Girl

Finished The Ivy Girl today. There was an old custom in some parts of England of the ‘Ivy-Girl’, wherein the girls in the village built an effigy of ivy known as the ‘Ivy-Girl’. It was stolen by the young boys in the village and then burned.
Here is my fantastical and macabre interpretation of the folk tradition. Acrylic on canvas board 8" x 10". At My Good Babushka.
This makes a nice companion piece to The Holly Boy.

The Holly Boy

The Holly Boy. There was an old custom in some parts of England of the ‘Holly-Boy’, wherein the boys in the village built an effigy of holly known as the ‘Holly-Boy’. It was stolen by the young girls in the village and then burned.
Here is my fantastical and macabre interpretation of the folk tradition. Acrylic on canvas board 8" x 10".
Original by Julie K. Schuler. At My Good Babushka.