The Basket Maker

The Basket Maker.  By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler

Thaumaturgy

Thaumaturgy. A mysterious forest where a Janus-like figure is amusing itself blowing bubbles.
Original painting 8" x 10" acrylic on acid free paper. At My Good Babushka.

Thaumaturgy

Thaumaturgy.Work in progress today.

The Lost and the Damned

I had the idea for a lost figure to be unwinding a ball of yarn to mark his way through the dark forest, and an antagonizing figure following behind, winding the ball back up. The Lost and the Damned. 

The Lost and the Damned

The Lost and the Damned. Another day of work in progress.

The Lost and the Damned

Work in progress.

Black Butterflies

New work started today. Black Butterflies, or the Killing Jar.

The Seeksorrow

 

Original 8" x 10" acrylic on acid-free paper painting. Inspired by the archaic word- seek-sorrow- one who strives to give himself or herself vexation. Here is a strange little man dowsing for sorrow in a dark forest.
by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler. The Seeksorrow at My Good Babushka.

The Seeksorrow

Seeksorrow is an archaic word for one who strives to give himself vexation. So here I've imagined an odd little figure dowsing for sorrows in a dark wood.

The Seeksorrow.

Another day in the forest.

The Mistle Child

 

 Sir Hugh Platt says: “By sitting uppon a hill late in an evening, neare a wood, in a few nights a firedrake will appeare; marke where it lighteth, and there you shall find an oake with a mistletoe therein, at the roots wherof there is a mistel child, wherof many strange things are conceived.”- W.C. Hazlitt’s Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. The Mistle Child at My Good Babushka.

The Mistle-Child

Sir Hugh Platt says: “By sitting uppon a hill late in an evening, neare a wood, in a few nights a firedrake will appeare; marke where it lighteth, and there you shall find an oake with a mistletoe therein, at the roots wherof there is a mistel child, wherof many strange things are conceived.”- W.C. Hazlitt’s Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore.

Magpie

Magpie. Original acrylic painting on paper 8" x 10".
Young woman beset with magpies. Inspired by an archaic superstition that one would be in mortal danger if a magpie took one's hair to build a next.
By Julie K. Schuler. The painting does not contain the black bars or the "My Good Babushka" watermark, which were included here for formatting and security purposes.