Design Team Sep' project triptych art

Hi everyone :0)

I will be decorating a triptych for Sep' design team project...

I wanted to stay with the same theme as

my practical magic blog party post so everything will tie in nicely...

unicornis horn Potion note ...to heal

For unicorn inspiration watch the magical tale of the last unicorns

....Anyone seen the film : Legend...

An amazing fantasy film...

little info:

A triptych (pronounced TRIP-tik, from the Greek tri- "three" + ptychē "fold")

is a work of art (usually apanel painting) which is divided into three sections,

or three carved panels which are hinged together and folded.

It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works.

The middle panel is typically the largest and it is flanked

by two smaller related works, although there are triptychs of equal-sized panels.

While the root of the word is the ancient Greek "triptychos",

the word arose into the medieval period

from the name for an Ancient Roman writing tablet,

which had two hinged panels flanking a central one.

The form can also be used for pendant jewelry.

Ok so here goes:

UNICORNIS TRIPTYCH

Right Panel reads:

unicorn of purity, unicorn of truth

unicorn of inspiration, unicorn of peace

Left Panel reads:

unicorn of legend, unicorn of myth

unicorn of mystery, unicorn of magic

Bottom message reads:

may your gentleness guide my way...

I will be listing in Etsy shop at the weekend ;0)

Materials/mediums I used:

Acrylic wash

pyrography tool

watercolour crayons

stamps

decoupage, pva

card

muslin for ribbon (tea dyed)

ink

pencil

rub on transfers

wax & seal

Wonderful goodies supplied to me by Lynne :

The Altered Element for design team

AND ABOVE ALL, WATCH WITH GLITTERING EYES THE WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU BECAUSE THE GREATEST SECRETS ARE ALWAYS HIDDEN IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES.THOSE WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN MAGIC WILL NEVER FIND IT.
~ROALD DAHL

(WONDERFUL QUOTE FOUND WHILE VISITING PLUMROSE LANE)

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood and she lived all alone.

She was very old, though she did not know it,

and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam,

but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night.

Her eyes were still clear and unwearied,

and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

Via the sunbeams in the forest

a gleam echoed from a magical horn

....it has been found

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is …

There is much misjudgment in the world. …

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The last unicorn upon her lap

filled with love as it takes its nap...

The spiral horn endures,

for it is sovereign and adamantine and transmutes

through the ages into many unknown compounds.

— Michael Green,

On the history and truth of the Unicorn

She remembers the days

the last of the unicorns freely roamed

now memories just turned like dust to myth

but never to be forgotten

a horn hidden from view

if only myths critics knew

---

Legend is a 1985 fantasy film

The story is set "once, long ago" in a world of unicorns,

fairies, goblins, and demons.

Hidden in a dark lair, the antagonist,

the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry)

instructs his goblin servant Blix (Alice Playten)

to locate the two unicorns that roam in the nearby forest

and remove their horns.

If the unicorns die and their horns are removed,

the Lord of Darkness can ensure that dawn never again breaks, and sunshine never returns.

The Lord of Darkness laughs with his statement

that darkness cannot be completely destroyed

- it always exists to counterbalance light,

until the two merge into one,

transcending the bounds of duality.

Now go seek the Great Stone

Marked well with a sign,

That the one who shall find

Shall see it is mine,

And upon seeing, shall ponder and certainly know

as the Ancients have writ:

"As Above, so Below."

And I shall guard the Source of Greatness;

From neither joy nor sorrow born,

In silver bound, beneath the ground,

I am the Spiral Horn.

Love & light

Trace

oxo