Dancer-in-the-Dawn
July 7th, 2013Hello everyone! It’s Eric and I’m back from London. It was a wonderful trip and I greatly enjoyed our travels. I am a huge fan of audio-tours. You know that Jeremy Irons is the voice for the English language audio tours at Westminster Abbey? It was like Scar from Lion King is talking to you about British history. It was awesome. So many great experiences. The kitchen tour at Hampton Court was great. I spent an entire day at the Tower of London, crawling all over every corner of it. I even saw the dreaded dungeons of the White Tower where they tortured people. The dungeons are still used for torture today because that’s where they keep …. the GIFT SHOP!
I hope you all enjoyed the vignette Winter Fantasy, illustrated by Julie Wright. She’s pretty good isn’t she? Would you like to see even more of her work? Well, you’re in luck. Julie is working on a set of prints for me. This set of four prints are the Spirits of the Seasons. You’ve met one spirit: Father Winter. Snow-by-Night has referred to the spirit of Summer: Sun-in-Splendor. Allow me to introduce, in the preview above, the Spirit of Spring: Dancer-in-the-Dawn. These prints will be available at Otakon in August.
Late-breaking news. Snow-by-Night has been invited to join Connecticon’s Online Media Guest Hall. They’ve got quite a selection of fabulous webcomic quests. So we’re in good company. It’s this coming weekend.
Gorgeous!
Each of the prints will come with it’s own poem. Here is the one for Dancer-in-the-Dawn.
Merrily she dances through the green grass,
Traipsing a secret path beside the lake.
Rosy petals fall like softest laughter,
And with each step flowers grow in her wake.
Welcome back! Glad you had such a good trip. Westminster Abbey and The Tower of London are the two most awe-inspiring places I’ve ever been. I could literally feel the presence of the historical figures associated with each place, I hope you did, too.
Winter Fantasy was outstanding.
For me, it was much more so with Westminster Abbey. It does have a slight advantage in that the earthly remains are right there. The Tower is so iconic. In a lot of ways it now belongs to the ages, rather than fixed to one particular era.
beautiful! I would love to see all four of them!
Since I’ll be on the road to Connecticon on Thursday, I’m planning on posting Sun-in-Splendor on Friday in lieu of an Almanac update.