The Hidden World of Eloise

Rekindled

he Wonderful Week of Wonders ended somewhat unceremoniously and a bit preemptively. Life moves in mysterious ways and so does creativity and there is no force of nature strong enough to force an art piece being finished. Even if it is just two brush strokes away from completion. If you create any sort of art in your life, i'm sure you know the feeling. :) Surprisingly, a feverish flu got all my creativity rekindled and even burning hotter than the fever! You may know this feeling too. ;)

So with a few weeks' delay, the Wonderful Week of Wonders will reach it's peak today, with the launching of my new art collection. It is six artworks strong, in the works for almost as many months and will be looking for a place in your heart later today. :) What is it about? What does it look like? What is it called? Here is a lovely hint just for you:

"War of the Roses", the new collection from Hidden Eloise coming to you later today.

Bear hugs,

xxx Hidden Eloise xxx

Wonderful Week of Wonders day 5: A bird sang me a story

ome closer by the fire, sit comfortably and close your eyes. Let me tell you a story about secret forests, wondrous love, eccentric bears and improbably large girls.

I love stories. I love listening to them, telling them, remembering them, living them, sharing them, devouring them. And i can never have enough stories. You have read some of mine maybe, i like weaving whole sagas behind my art sometimes! I have shared them in the past as blog posts but i have found a better way not too long ago. Enter the lovely Storybird! Such a lovely idea to allow not only me to write my own stories but you too, free to write your own stories illustrated with my art! I can't wait to see what you'll write, oh please do share!

And after you've shared digitally, order your stories printed and delivered to your door like proper  magical books! I have mine on order already and can't wait because the Storybird booklets look great!

There's a lot to explore in Storybird, hope you have fun playing, but wait a moment before that, let me show you what i have made! This storybird is a bit too wide for my blog so make sure you read it in full-screen mode! There's a link below to see it in Storybird.com too.

We are here... on Storybird

I hope you enjoyed! I hope it has inspired you do some writing of your own. Have a read at my second story and then off you go exploring!

Little Lost Bear on Storybird

You can buy and have delivered to your door these little booklets with just a few clicks! I'll let you know how they feel up close and share pictures when my order arrives.

To be able to write your own stories, illustrated by your favourite artist and then having them in a bespoke cute booklet! That is really wonderful in my book (pun intended)! But it is the Wonderful Week of Wonders after all! What could the next day bring? Could it be something even more wonderful? Well, it depends what tickles your fancy most. :) Only time will tell.

Lots of love and bear hugs!

xxx Hidden Eloise xxx

...but she really does look like a really nice girl..

ou would think just by looking at her calm sleeping face that she is a really nice girl.....

....That's what I thought too at least..... I was wrong...

 

Resting on the woods....

A renowned mischief-maker throughout the black forest she is..... a little rascal trickster with not an even match..... *something which she boasts about a lot of course*

.....but no one believes me....

...maybe it's because she wears her doll-like dress with unequalled casualness like she is doll-like her self or even worse like it's hers..........maybe it's because she delights every time upon looking down at her velvet deep red ribbon n treasures it like no other...but believe me she's seeing other things than we do in every deep red ...

..or maybe it's because you get to only see her calm face right now....the other face is not much to capture on paper and any artistic mind around would agree with me as inquisitive or intrigued that might be.......but one is able to observe her dreaming peaceful face exactly and precisely during only her sparse but long hours of sleep....

Resting on the woods....

....luckily for all woodland creatures of the location...such times do come...when the forest whispers and the clock strikes and at once she feels the need to take a long rest *on* the woods.....

This specific hour is greatly anticipated by most living beings around the woods as you rightly have guessed, cause all other hours.....that girl...she's spreading havoc n disorder in a grand scale! ...bigger than her unique and somehow bigger than life scale...!

But what went wrong...?? some blame her misdeeds and wrongdoings on that last “tiny” detail that has never left her......her huge scale!

“...poor thing! She must feel so lonely...” they say....

“everything must feel small and insignificant to her”.....others try to reason...somehow... how a forest girl came to have such destructive patterns of behaviour towards the forest....

For sure all agree that she's indeed beautiful while she sleeps and everyone gathers to take a glimpse of her while she does or make a drawing of her for that matter......from far away might I add, just in case.....

...they are even prone to forgive all her mischievous n naughty demeanour up until then...

....but maybe....,  the forest puts her to sleep for another reason than to stop the obvious pandemonium she happily creates ...

..maybe the forest knows that in her dreams she's dreaming of being like a doll...and resting on the woods really makes her feel small.....

..maybe...it's not just the others that think it's fortunate she gets to have those deep sleeps...

A Dark Fairytale...

 just realised i never wrote about one of my latest artworks, called "Seduction", so here is my dark fairytale for you :)

Seduction

Seduction utters just an instance, a tiny small and frail fragment of a dark fairytale of the enchanting, mystifying (and soon to be) relationship between a forest type of a girl and an untamed type of a bear.

..........."

wo wondering creatures of the dark forest, both always prying behind the heavy tree shadows, inquisitive and intrigued of all strangers that dare to reach this deep into their woods, suddenly cross paths and then they glimpse each other for the first time........

The ticking of the time stops....the forest quiets and listens....the leaves rustle to the air a secret.......”.those two.... are destined.....to .......”....

They look each other intensely, never daring to move their eyes away or let the feelings of timidness and fearlessness to truly show.......and although they seem nailed to the ground, as if they claimed their own *for at least the next few centuries* this particular piece of earth (one tiny and one huge respectively) ................ in reality, they both fight their biggest battle...!

 

Seduction

Folks around these places say that this is not an unnatural or atypical happening in the misty dark forest...it happens every once in a while but the outcome is messy and unclean and never gives birth to a nice fairytale..! only to warnings they say, warnings and curfews around this misty woodland.

...but there is a tale, told only by a hermit old lady that lives away from the village and dangerously deep into the forest.... that no one else whispers to a sleepy child at nights.

She claims, that every a hundred years a girl comes that her spirit is stronger than a bear's and if they ever meet...... her strong will, her untamed spirit, her hair flowing one with the forest wind, her provocative scent travelling in the air, will seduce and tame even the hugest wildest bear that emerges from the misty forest......She says to know of the secret the leaves whispered to the air....

..”...those two.... are destined.....to ...be one......”

“....she's a crazy old hag!!!! “ Village folks say......but all admit that no bear ever hurts her....

..........."

Seduction is one of the goodies of my seductive Friday give-away! Not too long now :)
Bear hugs :)
Eloise

..The "Keep the grandma alive" Fairytale ..

k, i know that by now my love/*slash*/fascination/*slash*/adoration/*slash*/enchantment /*slash*/enthralment (!?) /*slash*/ anything else Thesaurus would throw at me.....for anything even remotely reminiscent of fairytales is quite evident and known to most of you!
So just to verify it to all the rest that might not, here is a darling collection of little fairytale treasures ! :)))

Darling redhood cape from ilikeyouworld

Beautiful woodland mitten's pattern from seealso. I'm not a renowned knitter so i can only look at those cuties for now but the lovely artist behind then does offer them in ready mittens too from time to time. yay!

Playful and whimsy fabric amanitas! If we can't eat them, we can at least look at them right?  :)) From a sweet shop called LittleSparrowNest

I'm always in awe of these super adorable felt acorns from lilfishstudios !! I want huge giant jars filled with them!

And to summarise: Little redhood wore her favourite forest mittens and set on a journey to pick acorns and amanitas (!?) for that special brew that keeps grandma alive !!?!?! .....see! a fairytale :)))

Bear Hugs :D
♥♥♥Hidden Eloise♥♥♥

Wee little redhood....

h!! Bavarian little houses and deep forests of old Scandinavian and alpine fairytales... are my latest love!!! I get all cheerful n fuzzily smiley when i'm drawing them  :)
Fairytales, fairytales, fairytales!!! I've been putting Bavarian Tales on paper for some time now! Is there a better way to enjoy a fairytale from creating your own or your own interpretations of them??
(apart maybe from being read one :)))
 
In my latest artwork, "My! What big heart you have..." Little Redhood travels across the Black Forest to be-friend the wolves. She said...
" Grandma...I'm crossing the Black Forest to make up with the wolves..." and she did !
But Black Forest has 2 sides.... The bright and cheerful fairytale and the dark and mysterious one.
This new piece is of course on the bright side of things as little Redhood is on wolf's back and not his belly... but I'm thinking of creating the dark side too.
Most old fairytales were quite brutal n shocking in the old days anyway, but generations of psychologically scarred little wee ones came to change them into milder versions that we could handle! :D

For the  time being, i enjoy the warm feeling i get, thinking their unique encounter and connection!
It must be so fluffy n warm on a wolf's back :)
"My! What big heart you have..." is right now in the shop!! You'll be seeing many more of my tales very soon :))

xxBear hugsxx
♥Enjoy♥

My one month old "New" artwork

AY!!! May is here and summer is around the corner!!!!
We might even see some sun here in England for a change..lol:D

So!! Where to start from..?? Hmmmmmm
....let's  see....Have you seen my new artwork???  hmmm....right! n when i say *new*,  i actually mean "almost a month old" new.....
!hah! Time flies SO quickly my lovelies....!
Anyway, i need to present you my -one month old- "new" artwork so that i can then show you my  "really new "new ones!!!
So! so!.. after your extremely positive response to my "Mom, this is the friend i've told you about" artwork, this cuty came:

He says he can hear the Forest whisper  -- Print

It's called, "He says he can hear the forest whisper" ..."I can only hear his big heart"
...nnnnn so the story goes.....After a long mushroom-picking forest stroll, the cute ebony hair girl and her friend Mr Bear, take some time to rest before they take the long n extra wavy road back home.
Wouldn't a simpl-er- short-er- n staight-er-- road to home do just fine ...you say? NOPE!! The wav-i-er- the bett-i-er- :D
Can such a small basket of mushrooms fill both a tiny stomach and a huge? .....NOPE!
Will Mr Bear fit through that tiny doorway...?!? NOPE! Unless there is a good dinner  waiting inside for him!
...but only Mom is waiting inside....
"I can hear his BIG growling stomach too....ohh you promised you'll behave Mr. Bear!!"

xxx Sending many many hugs everywhere around sweeties xxx