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Scene from the Grimm Brothers' fairytale 'The Six Swans'. It's one of my beloved stories written by them so I'll probably make some more illustrations to it in the nearest future ^^

This picture was supposed to be my entry for the Red Fairytale Contest in but I don't know if it is good enought and suitable. It is red and it is a fairytale and it looks quite nice but, but... (what?) well, I don't really know
fortunately I still have some time to think it over ^^

If you have time - read this tale, it's quite short

This is a story description:
Six brothers have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother. They can only take their human forms for fifteen minutes every evening. In order to free them, their sister must make six shirts out of starwort for her brothers, and neither speak nor laugh for six years. A king finds her doing this, is taken by her beauty and marries her. When the Queen has given birth to their first child, the King's wicked mother takes away the child and accuses the Queen, and again with the second and the third. The third time, the Queen is sentenced to be burned at the stake. On the day of her execution, she has all but finished making the shirts for her brothers; only the last shirt misses a left arm. When she is brought to the stake she takes the shirts with her, and when she is about to be burned, six swans come flying through the air. She throws the shirts over her brothers and they regain their human form, except for the youngest brother, who is left with a swan's wing instead of a left arm (in some versions she does not finish the sixth shirt in time, and the youngest brother is left as a swan.) The Queen, now free to speak, can defend herself against the accusations. Her mother-in-law is burned at the stake instead.

In this bold fragment, but in full-lenght story, the girl is sitting on a tree and making a shirt.

ink, tea and watercolours
5,6 May 2007

Description
Scene from the Grimm Brothers' fairytale 'The Six Swans'. It's one of my beloved stories written by them so I'll probably make some more illustrations to it in the nearest future ^^

This picture was supposed to be my entry for the Red Fairytale Contest in but I don't know if it is good enought and suitable. It is red and it is a fairytale and it looks quite nice but, but... (what?) well, I don't really know
fortunately I still have some time to think it over ^^

If you have time - read this tale, it's quite short

This is a story description:
Six brothers have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother. They can only take their human forms for fifteen minutes every evening. In order to free them, their sister must make six shirts out of starwort for her brothers, and neither speak nor laugh for six years. A king finds her doing this, is taken by her beauty and marries her. When the Queen has given birth to their first child, the King's wicked mother takes away the child and accuses the Queen, and again with the second and the third. The third time, the Queen is sentenced to be burned at the stake. On the day of her execution, she has all but finished making the shirts for her brothers; only the last shirt misses a left arm. When she is brought to the stake she takes the shirts with her, and when she is about to be burned, six swans come flying through the air. She throws the shirts over her brothers and they regain their human form, except for the youngest brother, who is left with a swan's wing instead of a left arm (in some versions she does not finish the sixth shirt in time, and the youngest brother is left as a swan.) The Queen, now free to speak, can defend herself against the accusations. Her mother-in-law is burned at the stake instead.

In this bold fragment, but in full-lenght story, the girl is sitting on a tree and making a shirt.

ink, tea and watercolours
5,6 May 2007