Folktale Week 2023

This years selection of spooky folktale stories from around the world. This is my sixth year as host and I always enjoy seeing all the amazing artwork people share. This year I went a bit dark…

Folktaleweek 2023 Prompt List

ILLUSION : The Small Tooth Dog

I'm Joining: Japanese Bakeneko Cat

SEA: The Lorelei

SLEEP The Nightingale

LOST: Little Brother and Little Sister

UNDERGROUND: Persephone

INK: Aesop fable, "Pen, Ink & Paper"

FOUND: Bluebeard

Folktale Week 2022

I am excited to once again be one of the co-hosts of Folktale Week. This is one of my favorite projects every year. This is our fifth year of doing this super fun Instagram Art Challenge and I look forward to next November, when we do it all again. Here are my illustrations for Folktale Week 2022.

Folktale Week: I'm Joining

Folktale Week: Official Prompt List

Fool: The Weaver

Tree: The Juniper Tree (The Brothers Grimm)

Star: The Star Lovers

Rebel : The Dauntless Girl

Costume: The Sea Woman

Potion: A Toast with Circe

Folktale Week 2021

Moon: The Dead Moon

Dream: The Butterfly Soul

Awakening: "The Dragon After his Winter's Sleep".

Feast: The Elfin Mound

River: The Legend of Sabrina and the River Severn

Bird: The Pigeon's Bride

Sky: How the Stars Came Into the Sky

I'm Joining: Kumaku and the Giants

Prompt List: Belling the Cat

Folktale Week 2020

2020 Announcement: (The Wood Maiden)

2020 Prompts: (The Vampire Skeleton)

Birth (The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child)

Ritual (Fitcher's Bird by Brothers Grimm)

Courtship: (The Princess Mouse)

Solstice: (The Raven that Stole the Sun)

Death: (The Ghost of Fjelkinge)

Harvest: Harvest Queen

from Folktale Week 2019 & 2018…

The Hand of Glory

The Four Brothers

The Japanese Lantern

The Old Woman in the Woods

Queen Mab

Beauty and the Beast

La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)

Little Red Riding Hood

The Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty).

I have always been a sucker for folktales, the darker the better. As kid, I was definitely one of those that loved to be scared. Could you imagine being a child in the 19th Century and reading a copy of Grimm’s Fairy tales? Imagine a place where witches, ghosts and goblins were out to get get you on every corner or walk in the woods? Does this sound like a fun place to you?

The last couple of years I had the opportunity to collaborate with a wonderful group of illustrators to create the annual Instagram challenge, #FolktaleWeek. Here are a few of my favorite illustrations from the challenge.