This digital drawing was also made with the digital copy of my 夜來霧- stamp, but I tried to go another way than the quasi-sumi-e brush style. This piece was more inspired by tha Scandinavian version of Art Nouveau that was called skønvirke in Denmark and that in all the Scandinavian countries were reinventing the folklore and the ancient religion of the Scandinavian people. Trolls, Elves and Nisse was aplenty in these rich decorative drawings and paintings and to me, as I think they do to many Scandinavians they hold a special place.
In the Christmas (in Scandinavia still called Jul, the old heathen name for the winter solstice) the folklore and the old gods are showing themselves the most. At that time it is very dark and cold and the celebration of the slow return of the light makes it practically the same intense and hyper-sensitive celebration that it has been for thousands of years. The old house-god, Tompte in Swedish, and Nisse in Denmark and Norway, the Julbock (christmas goat) that in Finland are the name of Santa Claus, the lights, the eating, the drinking, the ... yes, better stop here - all this is in the picture together with some ekstra, and older entities.
Published originally at my Diaspora profile together with another drawing called Inhabitants of R’lyeh which was something entirely different and therefore not in this post.
The image is made with Krita my favorite Linux drawing application, It is licenced CC-BY and is available in highres here - 2500 × 3078 - 1,9 MB PNG
