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Bonne année! Happy New Year! Here’s my topical French Canadian folklore print I made for #FolktaleWeek2025: La Chasse-galerie!

This hand-carved, hand-printed 11” x 14” lino block print on lovely Japanese paper illustrates the famous French Canadian folktale of the Chasse-galerie, or the Flying Canoe. The tale tells of some hardworking voyageurs in their timber camp, 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4406480204

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#linocut #printmaking #FolktaleWeekNight #ChasseGalerie #FlyingCanoe #NewYearsEve

My Lino block print shows a night sky with moon and clouds and flying canoe full of paddling voyageurs over rolling countryside with fields and trees covered in snow and a church steeple in the foreground. The moon is covered with grey craters and shadows. The sky with scattered clouds is in a range of golden-green near the moon to minty bluish-green away from the moon. The foreground, canoe and its occupants are in black. The numbered 11”x14” print is titled “La Chasse-galerie” and signed Ele Willoughby 2024.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · last month

Bonne année! Happy New Year! Here’s my topical French Canadian folklore print I made for #FolktaleWeek2025: La Chasse-galerie!

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4406480204

🛶
#linocut #printmaking #FolktaleWeekNight #ChasseGalerie #FlyingCanoe #NewYearsEve

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

Day 3 of #FolktaleWeek2025 prompt is rain. My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper, 11” x 14”.

There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, 🧵

#FolktaleWeekRain #linocut #printmaking #folklore #magpieBridge #folktale #magpie #qixi #mastoArt

My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, 🧵

#FolktaleWeekRain #linocut #printmaking #folklore #magpieBridge #folktale #magpie #qixi #mastoArt

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

Yama orabi- the mountain shouter is a terrifying Japanese echo yōkai. It mimics people’s yells in the mountain. It looks like a little bird with an exceptionally large head and sharp pointy teeth!

Work in progress for #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleWeekEcho

#wip #linocut #printmaking #folklore

Nine of my 8”x10” prints laid out on a table in a grid to dry. They show a Yama orabi, a mythical bird like creature with an exceptionally large head and sharp pointy teeth hopping off a branch in front of a grey and blue-grey mountain at sunset in a gradient of orange, yellow and green sky.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

Yama orabi- the mountain shouter is a terrifying Japanese echo yōkai. It mimics people’s yells in the mountain. It looks like a little bird with an exceptionally large head and sharp pointy teeth!

Work in progress for #folktaleweek2025 #folktaleWeekEcho

#wip #linocut #printmaking #folklore