Fairy Paintings - Always Magical!

Fairy paintings became popular because of certain fairy tales and fairy books. Their popularity started in the Victorian era with the works of various authors Brothers Grimm, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, etc. Cletic and Greek Mythology also inspired many fairy artworks.

Fairy painting artworks feature both good and bad elements of the magical world. Elements like the golden dust from Peter Pan, the potion from A Midsummer Night's Dream, the magical gifts and curses from the fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and others. And contrary to popular belief, there are also black or bad fairies according to the creators of fairy tales.

There are drawings and paintings of fairies that interpret the creatures from the literary works of many authors. Though there are artists who follow the original descriptions of the authors, many venture to interpret the creatures from their imaginations. In the early 1790's, William Blake painted a series of paintings of fairies in watercolors. British and Scottish painters followed suit in the 1800's.

Paintings of fairies can be artworks of various magical creatures. There are many kinds and forms of fairies that were inspired from different fairy and folk tales and legends. Fairies can take the forms of pixies, butterflies, nymphs, sprites, elves, dwarves, gnomes, dryads, naiads, undines, fauns, satyrs, mermaids, trolls, etc.

The most popular paintings of fairies are the Victoria Paintings inspired by Celtic and Shakespearean literature. But there are also contemporary artists who adapted the popular style and others who developed their own. Various mediums that can be used for fairy paintings and drawings are colored pencils, pastels, watercolor, acrylic, oil, and others.