I still think Terry was making up the dog he saw in one of your drawings, but a nature sprite definitely made its way into this one. As if you captured it on film. I had no idea they could be so patient and pose for so long . . .
At first I thought your comment was for the bottle one, since there's a sprite of sorts (the kind Tolkien hated) right there on the bottle - or least its wings.
+JMJ+
ReplyDeleteI still think Terry was making up the dog he saw in one of your drawings, but a nature sprite definitely made its way into this one. As if you captured it on film. I had no idea they could be so patient and pose for so long . . .
Where in the blazes?!
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought your comment was for the bottle one, since there's a sprite of sorts (the kind Tolkien hated) right there on the bottle - or least its wings.
sprites on spirits' bottles. How indjinnious!
ReplyDeleteWell. I had a distinct impression of stage scenery here — not in a bad way at all, but reminding me of theatre fun from high-school and such-like.
There are moments when one channels the notion about which the Bard wrote, in what was - as Chesterton remarked - one of his weaker moments.
ReplyDeleteThey say Max Beckmann saw the world as a "vast stage".