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studiowaka β€” The Feather Cloak Thief

Published: 2012-04-06 02:55:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 929; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Description water color, gouache & color pencil

Fall 2011
Fiction Illustration

For this assignment we were free to pick a folk/ fairytale of our choice. I picked the "Crane Maiden." This is the full page illustration.

Now that I look at this I wish I created more depth with the color. Live and learn I guess.

Β© copyright Waka Tokuno
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Comments: 10

Mohnlied [2018-08-26 19:00:43 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful illustration to a interesting tale

There are some european fairytales where a man steals a girl's feather cloak to marry her. She often gets her cloak back and he than goes on a jorney to find her again. Most of the times, this stories have a happy ending.

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studiowaka In reply to Mohnlied [2018-08-28 14:47:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I don’t think I’ve ever read a European version of this story. Do you remember the title and which country?

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Mohnlied In reply to studiowaka [2018-08-29 21:55:09 +0000 UTC]

"Fet-Frumos, hunter's son" (Moldavan)

"The duck maiden" (Austrian)

"Sea Kind and Wasilisa the Wise"(Russian)


There are more, but these are the ones I came up with for now

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studiowaka In reply to Mohnlied [2018-08-30 10:24:58 +0000 UTC]

Nice! I wasn’t expecting so many. I will check these out : ) thank you!

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Mohnlied In reply to studiowaka [2018-08-30 19:05:53 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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ElwenAldalinde [2012-04-06 16:28:49 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, pretty! I wanna read the story now Did you have a particular version of the tale you used for this illustration? I'm curious to see how it compares to the Irish folktales about selkie women, who also could be captured if a man managed to steal their seal skin while they were bathing in human form.

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studiowaka In reply to ElwenAldalinde [2012-04-06 16:39:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
I kind of just pieced together different versions of the Crane Maiden. Sometimes the breed of birds are different. The Crane Maiden agrees to marry the thief because he promised that he will eventually give her feather cloak back. He never does and they have a child together. One day the father shows the child where he hid the cloak. The mother tricks her child into showing where the cloak is hidden. When the mother gets her hands on the cloak she puts it on and takes off immediately back to the heavens where she is originally from. The child is left behind. In some versions the mother and child are reunited. The child finds a way to heaven by climbing into a water bucket that is let down to scoop up water from below.

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ElwenAldalinde In reply to studiowaka [2012-04-07 16:08:08 +0000 UTC]

Aww, I really like the reuniting version That's so sweet! It does sound fairly similar to selkie mythology. Isn't it cool how different cultures, who had no connection Many Years Ago, came up with stories and myths that are so alike?

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studiowaka In reply to ElwenAldalinde [2012-04-07 18:01:57 +0000 UTC]

It is c:
Have you ever read the Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley? It's a short novel about a selkie girl. I think you'd like it. It has a beautiful cover illustrated by Leonid Gore.

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ElwenAldalinde In reply to studiowaka [2012-04-10 14:02:45 +0000 UTC]

Oooh! No, I haven't! I'll have to check it out, thanks!

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