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One for SorrowTwo for Joy
Three for a Girl
Four for a Boy
Five for Silver
Six for Gold
Seven for a Secret never to be told
Eight for a Wish
Nine for a Kiss
Ten for a time of joyous bliss
Watercolor, ink, gold.
Available as a limited edition giclee print 18x24 inches, $85.00.
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Whatever people may say, I do love magpies. Lovely watercolor!
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This is absolutely wonderful. You have a rare gift for watercolor.
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Love, love, love this! It's brilliant, would make for a beautiful poster 
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This is so interesting!!!! I love how you put them all together and the M is truly magnificent!!! But I am MOST intrigued, my mom has a rhyme similar to this but for any blackbird that you see, probably ravens mostly but hey where we live all there are are crows. it goes 1 is for sadness, 2 is for mirth, 3 is for marriage, 4 is for birth. 5 is for laughing 6 is for crying 7 is for sickness 8 is for dying. 9 is for silver, 10 is for gold, 11 is for a secret that will never be told! I love myths and oral tales like this. Its so interesting to see how they change (or stay the same)
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wow, these are all gorgeous... love the effect they have all together.
have you ever thought about illustrating a tarot card pack? I feel like you'd make a really special one -- there's something intensely spiritual about your work
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Already made one: www.shadowscapes.com/Tarot/car… The Shadowscapes Tarot was produced by Llewellyn about 5 years ago.
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Ahh! Sorry, should have done my research before making suggestions, heh. The deck is really beautiful... Browsing your website now, definitely want to order something for my walls!
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All the paintings together combined with an old rhyme! Wonderful and beautiful final job here!
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This whole series gives me shivers with how beautiful it is.
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Lovely grouping of your new Magpie watercolor paintings, Stephanie-chan. I also enjoyed the neat poem. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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This is really beautiful and kind of fitting for the book I'm reading which is called 'One for Sorrow, Two for Joy' by Clive Woodall which does feature magpies but they aren't as friendly as your ones.
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Always loved this rhyme, did you know theres another version where the beginning is a little different?
One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth ..the rest is the same. Though either version may have Ten changed to 'Ten is a bird you must not miss.'
Beautiful artwork, as always, enviously beautiful.
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Yeah, as with all oral folklore, there are many different versions! Things get changed around in the retelling over and over.
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Excellent, Stephanie. The calligraphy is gorgeous as well.
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Wow, this was very nice! Thank you for sharing your beautiful artwork. By the way, did you borrow this poem from another author for this? Or did you actually write this? Because it's a beautiful poem
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It's a very old counting rhyme.
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Oh okay. Honestly, I never heard it before but I thought it was very nice
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Beautiful, Steph. Alas, the exchequer says not this time.
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These were beautiful as separate pieces, but they're gorgeous put together like this. <3
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Such beautiful illustrations! They seem to be full of thoughts and emotion, I love them! And that's why I'm really happy to finally see them combined in one piece together with the poem.
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