Well, it looks like I’m hitting the deep end of the pool of the truly macabre, with The Grimms’ version of the Bluebeard story, The Robber Bridesgroom. It’s easy to choose the scene in the story that tells us everything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Grimm Fairy Tales
When I first pulled today’s story out of the magic Tupperware I was almost tempted to cheat and pick another one. It’s not that I don’t like the story, no The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Goose Girl is another one of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales I somehow missed during my childhood only reading it later on when I had access to the adult unabridged version I was reading as a folklore reference. Growing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, today The Magic Tupperware told me to draw Little Briar Rose AKA the Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty (okay I confess, first it told me to do the The Nixie in the Pond and then theThe Spirit in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we reach the home stretch of this thing the magic Tupperware gave me one that I may have been looking forward to on a subconscious level, Hans My Hedgehog.! For this one, I didn’t really bother with what part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the penultimate entry in this month’s sketch challenge The Three Little Men in The Wood from the Brother’s Grimm. Another one of the stories where good girl is rewarded and the bad girl is punished. I freely admit that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Technically I finished the sketch challenge yesterday. but here’s the thing. I do these sketches on 8.5 & ll sheets of bristol board and I do two sketches a sheet. Since I was left with one last sheet of bristol[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…