Drawings Of Dark Fairies

Reading Runes: Kenai man shares the magic

Up Kenai's windy Strawberry Road an ancient rune master lives in a cozy, cedar cabin.

"In this place love and magic dwell," says a sign on the boardwalked porch up to the house. But if you don't know how to read runes you wouldn't know that it says that.

But Doc Warner knows what it says. In fact, he carved it himself to place at the entrance.

"I love the magic of this place," he said.

And it certainly feels magical there.

Inside the small two-story cabin, candles glimmer amid the incense smoke. There's juxtaposition between the old timey contents of the cabin and new technology. Electric lights hang along with lanterns and a radiator sits by a wood stove.

Doc seems magical too -- a compact man, with long grey hair, and a matching beard. Oversized aviator eyeglasses shield his deep brown eyes, and when he looks at you, you can tell he's a sage of something, albeit an uncommon one dressed in Carhartts and suspenders.

"Magic is here for everybody but you have to ask for it," Doc said. "We're born believing in magic. They have to teach it out of us."

To Doc, magic is walking into a room and knowing someone that he hasn't met yet. Or when a gardener can grow anything from the ground simply because she believes in her crop.

And, no, it's not necessarily Harry Potter style magic with wands and spells and cauldrons, even though Doc thinks those stories are fun.

It's his ability to read and interpret runes, a 24-symbol, ancient Nordic alphabet with meanings for each character.

"They talk to me," Doc said. "Certain people are drawn to certain things. When you believe in something it starts talking to you."

But they don't actually talk to him. No actual words come out of their pretend little wooden mouths.

Rune reading isn't fortune telling, Doc said. It's more of a personal discourse.

"You're having a conversation with yourself through me," he said. "Your energy is drawing them and your energy is putting them down."

Each rune stands for something, a word all of its own, he said.

For five years now he has done readings at Pye' Wackets, the metaphysical store in Soldotna. He's usually there twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, from after 4 p.m. to about 6 p.m.

"I don't have office hours, per se," Doc said.

And by that he means he will do readings just about anytime, anywhere.

"I did it once in the parking lot of Safeway," he said. "One gal tracked me down so we sat down, did her reading and it was most interesting.

Dark Faeries, Drawings Of Dark Fairies

This little faery is very beautiful, and a little charmer, perhaps a little witchy. She definitely has a dark faery aura, she has either got a secret, or a really sad mood. I think I created this fairy as more of an experiment in creating a transparent mask and fanciful gothic fairy wings. In drawing I find it important to experiment and try new techniques. On this page I will show you the new things I've been working on.

If you want to draw a darker faery, or an evil faery for a fairy-tale story, or a villain in a game, remember the elements of evil can be illustrated by adding a dark evil cape, or black lace, perhaps a harsh cruel looking face.

If you are ready to draw the free practice on this site, go for it, if you want some very simple basic lessons check out my free how to draw section, and if you need more advanced instruction try my drawing book , and you will be drawing all of the stuff on this site easily.

Get going, and I promise we will have so much fun.

Notice her bright and intense eyes, under the wispy dark hair. I also designed the hair to look a little modern, that layered wispy look. That is really fun when creating art, mixing up time periods. This Faery is wearing smooth leather lace-up pants to look a little medieval, and the scrunched leather boots give you the feeling she could be in an ancient castle. Then add a modern stretch sweater and you're not sure where or when this faery exists. When creating the fashion for your art feel free to have fun with it.

I enjoy playing with it, of course if you really want a more traditional dark faery, perhaps you should choose clothing that really pinpoints the mood, but I think you expand as an artist if you change it up!

The element of lace adds the drama. A lace see-through mask creates some dark mystery. Her lacy dark wings add a lot of texture to the composition.

Drawing texture takes some decision-making, and planning. A texture always adds some interest in a drawing. You can play with different ideas by doing different things with the pencil. Try circles, or squiggles, and then shear very light pressure over top pulls the whole thing together. I will be creating a new section about drawing clothing coming soon, so subscribe to my free monthly e-zine to make sure you don't miss anything.

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