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Artist: N. Puttapipat (Natee Himmapaan)

Title: Awake

Size: 130 mm diameter

Medium: Watercolour, ink, and gouache on Fluid hot pressed

For the ‘Night Owl’ theme of @changelingartistcollective‘s @operationgaia charity auction. Proceeds go to the National Audubon Society.

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Hopefully I’ve just scraped in on the 28th February in some time zone somewhere...

The Firebird

By N. Puttapipat (Himmapaan)

Ink, watercolour, and gouache, 150 mm square (6″ x 6″)

https://himmapaan.wordpress.com

For the 2017 Month of Love challenge, ‘Light’.

Familial, material, and romantic love all play their parts in this Russian tale, in which Tsarevich Ivan, Tsar Andronovich’s youngest son, discovers the culprit who nightly steals the Tsar’s golden apples: the firebird.

Some more recent retellings have occasionally conflated this tale with that of Koschei the Deathless by casting him as the antogonist, and indeed this was the basis for Stravinsky’s ballet of 1910. Here, the firebird’s brilliant feather, which had torn away in Ivan’s grasp when he attempted to catch the bird, becomes the light which frees Koschei’s prisoners from enchantment and aids Ivan in Koschei’s destruction.

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Daphne

By N. Puttapipat (Himmapaan)

Pencil, ink, and charcoal, 150 mm square (6″ x 6″)

https://himmapaan.wordpress.com

For the 2017 Month of Love challenge, ‘Metamorphoses’

In Greek mythology, Daphne, a naiad, was transformed into a laurel tree after begging for help from her father, the river god Peneus (or from Gaia in some versions) in order to escape Apollo’s amorous advances.