Dryade
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Dryad; The departure of Autumn and arrival of winter Recently someone emailed me an image painted by a woman fantasy artist who has clearly used this painting as her template and inspiration, the only change is she reversed the image, simplified the tree and put a tight black dress on her. This is flattering and I dont mind, but I’d really appreciate it if people who use my work as a source would be fair and kind enough to credit me and the original painting. As this image was published in a 2007 goddess calendar, its easy to document which was created first. Thats my rant, now heres the good stuff: The Story: / “The nights are growing cool, leaves swirling from the trees. A few of the hardiest wildflowers adorn meadow and hedgerow. I prepare for the arrival of days bleak with driving rain, nights laced in ice, gather a few remaining flowers whose faded scent will serve to remind me on cold nights of summer’s long days of sun and heat. My home is a large, ancient oak with low gnarled branches and deeply furrowed bark. Mirroring a full crown overhead, her thick roots delve down and radiate outward, keeping us anchored and safe in stormy winds. I gather autumn wildflowers for my bower inside the oak, where I’ll sleep sound as a baby in the womb awaiting rebirth into the world of light. All summer fragrant blossoms such as these adorned my hair and gowns, sunny days and sultry nights spent with Pan, the satyrs, nymphs, and my sister dryads. Now they’ll lay crushed and fragrant beneath me, bringing sweet dreams of what is to come.” The tree in the background is the sketch of an ancient oak growing about 5 minutes from my home. Its documented as being over 200 years old and in the early 1800’s a treaty was signed beneath it between the local Pottawattamie tribe and invading settlers. Didn’t do much good as a decade later most Pottawattamie were ‘relocated’ to a reservation in Nebraska. The oak is so broad at the base that several people holding hands cannot encompass its trunk. This painting depicts who lives inside it! Like dryads everywhere, she dosn’t care about politics or the human world, unless it threatens her tree. Lucky for her this oak is now a landmark and well looked after. Text and image copyright Helena Nelson -Reed 2007. Please dont use without written permission.
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Photomanipulation of an eye. Done in Photoshop. / This work was featured in the November issue of the German Advanced Photoshop! Read the Interview Original source: Dryad by Lilyas
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Stock images by / deathbycanon-stock here and here / serp-stock / Stockcity
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A pencil drawing of a tree spirit www.deborah-holman.co.uk
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The Dryad symbolizes feminine power- our oneness with Nature, and the beauty of the soul of the tree exposed.
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Balanos was one of eight daughters of Oxylus and Hamadryas, a Dryad nymph born bound for life to an Oak tree, such that, when the tree died, as did Balanos. / From the world of the great Oak, we are left with a carpet of moss – millenia of parallel evolution, dependant on the waters of life… When an Oak is no more, the 600 plus species which depend on it usually follow.
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2007 – UK’s wettest July for 240 years – taken through the car windscreen whilst waiting for my daughter & grand-daughter. This is more or less as it came out the camera – just cropped to square and upped the saturation a tad. Taken with Finepix A330 – through the windscreen. Cropped.
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My personal take on the classic dryad, or wood nymph, from Greek mythology. Done with rapidograph pens and india ink on bristol board.
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Daz Studio and Photoshop work. Best viewed large.
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dryad….....blooming…...... / drawing
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A combination of 3 fractals made in Apophysis and 1 fractal made in Xaos. / Not sure about the end result but really wanted to use the two figures. So here they are.
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Pencil Drawing
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Here is the partner piece to my earlier Dryad, this one being the male counterpart to the female version. This one took a little more work, from the enormous amount of shading. The canopy of trees is supposed to almost look like a darkened sky of clouds because the foliage is so dense, as if it’s hiding the wooden adonis away from unworthy observers.
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Dryads like to live near trees. / Sometimes they transform into trees, / like Daphne, who transformed into a / laurel tree when Apollo tried to rape her / Laurel wreaths were thence given to / the winners of song and poetry contests
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From the same expedition as ‘We can Walk on Water”
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The dryad is bound to her tree and reaches in vain to the freedom of the pegasis that flies afar.
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Work created in 2008 / Bubblemail me for custom calendars.
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Hamadryads are forest nymphs who are so linked to their trees that if the trees were destroyed, these forest spirits would themselves cease to exist. In Greek mythology, the gods and dryads punished mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating these spirits. It’s a long way from the “slash and burn” approach that many modern cultures now take to clearing forest and woodlands in the name of profit and progress.
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©Seth F.Weaver,Sr. 07/26/07. A Compullage™. Diana’s daughters the dryades love the deep woods where they live and play in the foggy mists of dawn and dusk. If you’re ever out walking in the deep woods and you hear whispers and giggles . Have no fear the dryades are near. Just don’t make them mad or you might not make it home. Inspired by the tales of Greek Mythology. Thanks for looking Seth. / .
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As he stops to take a rest on his way across Northern Spain. He can only be seen if he stops moving for more than fifteen minutes and its his birthday. Otherwise he’s invisible, to the human eye at least. Image copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Dryads like to live near trees. / Sometimes they transform into trees, / like Daphne, who transformed into a / laurel tree when Apollo tried to rape her / Laurel wreaths were thence given to / the winners of song and poetry contests
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Dryade is the German word for dryad – a forest nymph
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