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Gold and Silver stars ~

A traditional artwork I made using brown and black inking pens, gold and silver acrylics, and watercolor on an A4 size paper. I mostly wanted to used the metallic acrylics and see what I could do with them!

The gif is supposed to show how shiny it is, though it doesn’t do justice to the gold part especially. 

Featuring Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos from Monster Hunter!

Biddy’s – The Irish Fairies

There was a time, and not too long ago, that the people were immersed in fairy-lore and superstitions. In our twenty-first century such things are laughed at, being considered simple superstition and old fashioned. Today, it is not considered ‘cool’ to talk about fairies and, in some circles, the word has a quite different and denigrating meaning. But, there are Irish people who believe in the…

In Ireland one of the most generally believed superstitions, of the many held by the rural Irish, is that fairy gold, silver and jewels of all kinds are to be found hidden beneath almost every fairy Rath, cairn, or old castle in Ireland. Treasure seekers will be quick to tell you that it is a difficult task to locate and exhume any kind of buried treasure. Tradition, however, suggests that…