Thursday, February 19, 2009

The lion and the unicorn

I don't know what is wrong with my Scanner, but it keeps leaving a line down the page, something I will have to look at soon.

In this painting the Lion is a shooting star with a fiery main of halo light caused by the entering of the atmosphere. The Unicorn is dark and mysterious high in the mountain highlands. The planet in the sky represents a lost time from eons ago where peace and division lived in harmony, a time before the fabled fight of the lion and the unicorn.


The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn all around the town.
Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake and drummed them out of town.




The Lion and the Unicorn lyrics date from 1603 when King James VI of Scotland became James I of England unifying the Scottish and English kingdoms . The 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth 1 named the son of Mary Queen of Scots, James, as her heir. The union of the two countries required a new royal coat of arms combining those of England which featured two lions, and Scotland whose coat of arms featured two Unicorns hence "The lion and the unicorn". A compromise was made thus the British coat of arms has one Lion and one Unicorn and the poem about hence "The Lion and the Unicorn" was created.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Undetected threat




The Vultures in the painting did not care to see the fox, the fox could of only gotten to where he is by being invisible to thy enemy's eye, or they would of been watching him closely.

Even though the vulture feeds on dead animals, and usually will not attack live pray. The urge is often there to follow, watch, wait, But the Fox is too smart for a couple of vultures, simply walked on by as an undetected threat.

The vultures have made the mistake, they did not see him as food because he is not dead, but neither did they watch him, they did not think such a small animal could be such a large threat. The fox on the other hand is not so picky, he will actively hunt down, kill and eat nearly any bird.



A visible enemy indeed thou mayest overcome by blows; thy invisible enemy thou conquerest by belief. A man is a visible enemy; to strike a blow is visible also.
~ St. Augustin~