{"id":298,"date":"2008-06-17T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-06-17T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:01:03","slug":"the-swan-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/the-swan-maiden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swan Maiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on this painting since February of this year. The inspiration for this piece came from reading the novel &#8220;Daughter of the Forest&#8221; by Juliet Marillier. She is a very gifted writer and folklorist. This beautiful retelling of the  traditional seven swans fairy tale set in ancient Ireland, sent me on a quest of inquiry into a myriad of myths surrounding swans.<\/p>\n<p>During this research, I was drawn to the Irish legend of a beautiful swan maiden &#8220;Caer Ibormeth&#8221;. Daughter of Prince Ethal Anbuai of Sid Uamuin in Connacht. Legend has it that every other  Samhain she would change into a swan and would remain in this form for a year before becoming human again the following Samhain. This romantic Irish myth has become the main focus of my painting.<\/p>\n<p>I have done several preliminary sketches  of flying swans and will be adding these later when I have finished  painting the maiden and the background. Sometimes when I am working on a painting, it becomes necessary for me to plan, to mull, and let some of my ideas percolate for awhile before I can proceed.<\/p>\n<p>I will post this painting again when I am finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"theswanmaiden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidenweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidenweb.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidenweb-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Swan Maiden<\/strong> &#8211; Combined Media &#8211; 16 X 20 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" title=\"themaidenswansketch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidensketchpencweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidensketchpencweb.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/earthmaidensketchpencweb-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Swan Maiden<\/strong> &#8211; Sketch Charcoal &amp; 2B pencil &#8211; 16 X 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on this painting since February of this year. The inspiration for this piece came from reading the novel &#8220;Daughter of the Forest&#8221; by Juliet Marillier. She is a very gifted writer and folklorist. This beautiful retelling of the traditional seven swans fairy tale set in ancient Ireland, sent me on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[163,111,166,164,165,130,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}