fairytale – Page 5 – wraithsandstraysofparis

talesfromweirdland:

Concept art by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen for Disney’s Fantasia (1940). These are for the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence obviously.

I’ve featured Kay Nielsen’s illustrations here before: great, dramatic stuff.

thefaeryhost:

Annie Stegg __ The Lighted Path

suonko:

by John Simmons /detail/

drakontomalloi:

Heinrich Breling’s designs for Linderhof Palace’s Venus Grotto (devised as an illustration of the First Act of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”). 1881

ohsamiam:

Hans Christian Andersen, Baśnie. Warszawa, Polska, 1985. Illustrations by Janusz Stanny.

90377:

Springtime Blues by Brian Roberts

songstarliner:

Feodor Rojankovsky

greffis:

“My eldest daughter, Suldana, is in love with another woman. She is eighteen and she spends her days working at our kiosk selling milk and eggs, and at night she sneaks out and goes down to the beach to see her lover. She crawls back into bed at dawn, smelling of sea and salt and perfume. Suldana is beautiful and she wraps this beauty around herself like a shawl of stars. When she smiles her dimples deepen and you can’t help but be charmed. When she walks down the street men stare and whistle and ache. But they cannot have her. Every day marriage proposals arrive with offers of high dowries but I wave them away. We never talk about these things like mothers and daughters should; but I respect her privacy and I allow her to live.”

— – Diriye Osman, “Fairytales For Lost Children.” (via water-veiled)

velveteenmopsy:

Cicely Mary Barker – “Fairy’s visit”

olosta:

From In Powder and Crinoline : old fairy tales retold. By Arthur Quiller-Couch; illustrated by Kay Nielsen