I'd love to introduce you to my latest art book which has been over four years in the making.
'Welsh Monsters & Mythical Beasts' is an illustrated compendium exploring the mythical creatures of Wales, comprised of ink and watercolors. You may have heard of the Red Dragon (Ddraig Goch) featured on the national flag of Wales. Sadly, here in Wales, many of our other beasts are being forgotten.
I felt to sad to see that my culture is loosing such an amazing array of creatures and legends that surround them. Therefore, I decided to bring them back to the forefront of Welsh culture and introduce them to a new generation by sharing our rich mythology with the world.
I'm so excited about this art book, there's so much contend and so many unique creatures, I hope you will love it too!
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Gwiber
Ceffyl Dŵr
Y Mari Lwyd
Germans : "We got Krampus. Krampus ist very frightening." Welsh : "hold my whiskey."
Angelystor
Tylwyth Teg
This is my favourite, although not because a lot of the others are more like nightmares (which actually, I love lol). The detail, and the expression, and the way you have incorporated branches and autumn leaves into the mane, it's both beautiful and dangerous looking, perfect! Your art is amazing, thank you for showing us all these creatures! I love mythology and monsters and I'd heard of several, including this, but not all of them, so you're doing a great job!
Llamhigyn Y Dŵr
Y Ddraig Goch
Ceiliog Neidr
Cath Palug
Bwbach
Llamhigyn Y Dŵr
Twrch Trwth
This remingpds me of Lil Chauncey from Stars vs the forces of evil
Ceiliog Neidr
Wow, looks remarkably like illustrations of some dinosaurs today. I love all of your drawings, I truly hope they get made into a book with descriptions to help preserve your heritage.
Danger Radish
Beautiful pictures. Accompanying descriptions of these critters would have been a nice addition.
I agree. While people from Wales may know something about those monsters, for most people from other countries they are totally unfamiliar. I am from Poland and I know almost nothing about Welsh mithology.Your illustrations look very interesting and I want to know more - of cours, I can Google it (and I will), but descriptions would be very helpful.
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This book looks amazing, and I love that it is preserving the cultural heritage of Wales.
Cymraeg (Welsh) is a beautiful language to listen to, but I'll be hanged if I can spell or pronounce a single word! I sounded like a drunken dragon when I tried to repeat what my friend would say. (Cracked her up).
I’ll have to include pronunciation guides in the book ;) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/collettejellis/welsh-monsters-and-mythical-beasts-v2
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Beautiful pictures. Accompanying descriptions of these critters would have been a nice addition.
I agree. While people from Wales may know something about those monsters, for most people from other countries they are totally unfamiliar. I am from Poland and I know almost nothing about Welsh mithology.Your illustrations look very interesting and I want to know more - of cours, I can Google it (and I will), but descriptions would be very helpful.
Load More Replies... This book looks amazing, and I love that it is preserving the cultural heritage of Wales.
Cymraeg (Welsh) is a beautiful language to listen to, but I'll be hanged if I can spell or pronounce a single word! I sounded like a drunken dragon when I tried to repeat what my friend would say. (Cracked her up).
I’ll have to include pronunciation guides in the book ;) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/collettejellis/welsh-monsters-and-mythical-beasts-v2
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