Monday, 11 August 2025

Ran's Glimmers - drypoint with mixed media

 


Sketchbook experiments in mixed media ©2025LisaLeQuelenec


'...have gold, so if lost at sea you aren't empty handed to Ran's hall'

- Fridhjaf's saga


Golden tributes thrown over the side of the boat to appease Ran for a safe crossing whilst a recurring theme in many mythologies is to pay the boatman for crossing into the next life. The more about mythology that I read the more connections I make between peoples and cultures, we are more alike than not. The same worries and fears even over vast distances and time, I wish we could remember that a bit more.

 


Ghost print from Scintillating II with mixed media ©2025LisaLeQuelenec




Ran's Glimmers   ©2025LisaLeQuelenec


The gold mica paint is from a set by Kuretake - Gansai Tambi Starry Colours which is a range of 6 from silver pearl to a deep rich gold. 



3 comments:

Debbie Nolan said...

Lisa - these are just gorgeous. Your sketchbook pages are just beautiful as well. Like your observation about how even in the past folks were filled with the same emotions we are experiencing now. Read where you your suffering with an unusual heat wave. It has just been a year for so many of us. Hope you and Lu get to be able to walk early soon. Take care and thank you always for your wonderful visits. Hugs!

RH Carpenter said...

The addition of the gold glimmers really sets this one off well and I like how you carried the net over the edge of the print. Each print you make, each sketch you draw in preparation of the print, is a work of art in itself but the whole story is the creation from idea/thought to final prints. Amazing discipline you have while I flitter all over the place!

laura said...

These are so evocative and, I can't think of the word-- like something ancient and primal that calls to you, like the sound of a horn in deep woods. I've read a couple of sagas; always said if I had twin sons I'd name them Glum and Grim after the twins in Egil's ( I think it was) saga