Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood

Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood. 
 Inspired by The Dark Heart of Dunwich. The Dark Heart of Dunwich is a Suffolk legend from the 12th century. Eva, a Dunwich maiden, was due to be married to the son of a local landowner, but she fell in love instead with a worthless cad who soon deserted her. She cut out her heart and hurled it into the sea. Unable to die, she is purported to roam the shore. The heart, similar in appearance to wood, is believed to sometimes wash up onto the beach and brings great misfortune to anyone who picks it up.

Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood

Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood. Work in progress today.
Inspired by The Dark Heart of Dunwich. The Dark Heart of Dunwich is a Suffolk legend from the 12th century. Eva, a Dunwich maiden, was due to be married to the son of a local landowner, but she fell in love instead with a worthless cad who soon deserted her. She cut out her heart and hurled it into the sea. Unable to die, she is purported to roam the shore.  The heart, similar in appearance to wood, is believed to sometimes wash up onto the beach and brings great misfortune to anyone who picks it up.

Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood

Painting in progress today. Inspired by The Dark Heart of Dunwich - Suffolk legend from the 12th century. Eva, a Dunwich maiden, was due to be married to the son of a local landowner, but she fell in love instead with a worthless cad who soon deserted her. She cut out her heart and hurled it into the sea. Unable to die, she is purported to roam the shore.  The heart, similar in appearance to wood, is believed to sometimes wash up onto the beach and brings great misfortune to anyone who picks it up.

Her Heart on the Shore with the Rest of the Driftwood

Painting in progress.

Her Heart with the Rest of the Driftwood

Work in progress today.

The Flying Man of Coney Island

New work in progress today.

The Rabbit and the Squid

Custom ordered, surreal, fairy tale-like painting. I am always happy to take custom commissions.

Song at Sea.

Song at Sea. by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler

Song at Sea

Song at Sea, painting in progress today.

Song at Sea

New work in progress today.

The Boy Who Drowned

The Drowned Boy. Original 8" x 10" acrylic on heavy paper painting by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
Inspired by the folk belief that one born with a blue vein on the side of one's nose was destined to be drowned. I've given my drowned boy an octopus, and some puffer fish friends.

Painting does not contain the black bars on the sides, nor the "My Good Babushka" watermark, which were included here for formatting and security purposes.

The Boy Who Drowned

Inspired by a superstition that one born with a blue vein on the side of one's nose was destined to be drowned. A drowned boy and his friends.

The Boy Who Will Be Drowned

Work in progress. I'm giving him a puffer fish friend.

The Boy Who Will Drown

I read somewhere that if one was born with a prominent blue vein on the side of one’s nose, it meant that one was destined to be drowned. I can’t remember exactly where I read it. I think it was probably W.C. Hazlitt’s Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. It’s been my go-to volume for the past year.
Today I’ve started a painting using this theme. This is to be my drowned boy.

Sea Star Collector

 

Original 8" x 10" acrylic on acid free paper.
A sea star collector.
by Julie K. Schuler.
Painting does not contain the "My Good Babushka" watermark included here for security purposes.

Sea Star Collector

Work in progress.

The Sea Star Collector

Work in progress today.