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Mythical Animals in Manchester (UK) !
There is currently an exhibition of
Mythical Animals being held at the
Manchester Museum of Science of Industry. Within this exhibition is a
Unicorn, as well as other mythical creatures. For more information,
visit the museum website at
http://www.msim.org.uk
The exhibition is on from now until June 1st
This editions award goes to ....
Dream Forests.com is an excellent
website that in it's own words is "filled with
wonders and
marvels beyond imagining". Formally called "Unicorns Dell" (I think) this
site must be on
your "must see" list. It has a page about unicorns under the 'Dream Creatures'
section which has
a link to a large picture gallery of Unicorns. There are many other things too
including dragons,
Centaurs and Pegasus. There are pages about horses too. The site contains
pictures of the
authors own original sketches, paintings and sculpture too. All this and more is
contained
inside a site with beautifully designed graphics which is a joy to navigate
through using
a java based index toolbar. This site is impressive in many respects, for which
both of
it's authors, Unica and Taiyles,
deserves recognition by getting this editions award.
What is even more amazing, is that they successfully co-operate despite being
many thousands of miles apart !! Well done there both of you !
Previous Special Merit Winners and Issue Dates
Unicorn Artwork, the Elfwood Gallery
One place I
often visit to find original artwork on the Internet is the
Elfwood gallery at http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/elfwood.html
It states it is
the largest home of amateur Science Fiction & Fantasy art and
fiction, and I believe this to be
quite a true statement from what I've seen ! It's a non-profit
project created and maintained by
Thomas F Abrahamsson and others, based in Sweden.
There is a lot
of wonderful unicorn artwork to be found on there in the "Lothlorien" online
art gallery ! In each edition, I do a review of some of the best
that I've found there.
I have now moved this review section to a separate page.
Click here to read this editions review.
I will be mentioning more unicorn artwork from this gallery
site over the next few editions...........
New Websites
As usual there are a number
of new sites to look at for this edition that have been added to
the
Unicorn links
page (which was moved to a separate
page then split into two some time ago).
NOTE ! Those
links were also recently checked, and ones that no longer work
have been removed.
So, if your site was there, and is no longer, then please let me
know the new address, thanks 8-)
Susal's Homepage
is a German language site which has an excellent
series
of Unicorn pages including a
large picture gallery.
Valley of the Unicorns
has an online RPG Yahoo e-group for Unicorn and
other mythical creatures.
The Meadow of the
Unicorns is another good site,
it has information on Unicorns, as well as poetry, quotations and a picture
gallery.
Unicorn Love is a site
still under construction (aren't they all <grin>) that has a
a picture gallery, backgrounds, site links and other items too.
And if you ever wanted to
ask the question 'Do I spend a lot of
time looking for Unicorn sites ?' The answer is YES 8-).
Just don't ask how big my monthly phone bill is, or
if my computer keyboard is worn out yet ! OK <grin>
SO, if you want to tell me about your Unicorn site
yourself and let me see it, then please email
me.
And there are even more from previous editions or on the links page too !
Please note, the Unicorn
Links Page has been split into two
sections alphabetically. This is to make it easier to read
and quicker to load as it had become so large !
Unicorn Rocking Horses
This absolutely wonderful
46" high carved unicorn rocking horse was
sculpted by DJ Liccardi, and can be found on the "Rare
Breed"
Rocking Horse website at www.djlrarebreed.com
There are also many examples of other rocking horses there too.
Spencer's Wizards
"Spencer's Wizards" online store, based in Bradenton, Florida has a number of wonderful
collectible Unicorn figures for sale, as well as Dragons and
other items. The store is worth a visit.
Celestial Unicorn Collection
The
"Awhitehorse"
store on Cafe Shops has a series of
unicorn items within it's
Celestial
Unicorn Collection. You can purchase shirts, calendars, mugs and other
items depicting Unicorn artwork by the excellent artist and sculptor,
Stacey Mayer.
Halicorn Studio's
Also on
Cafe Shops is a shop called
Halicorn Studio's
which also sells shirts
mugs and other items featuring an original Unicorn motif design.
More Unicorn Artists.....
The "Die
Drachenbande" site
has a number of excellent unicorn drawings on
one of the pages on this site. The expression in the unicorns
faces,
especially in the eyes is wonderful, do take a look.
Another good site
is called Dee's Art Gallery. This site contains
the artwork of Dee Dreslogh. Within the colour and Black and
White
galleries you will find some wonderful original pictures of
unicorns
by this talented artist. There are also other fantasy subjects
such as Pegasus, Dragons and Gryphons too.
Delights fantasy
art at www.delightsfantasyart.com has a number of unicorn
images for sale in the acrylic art section of the website, do take a look !
Another site that have some
good unicorn artwork is Cathey's Gallery
which you can find at www.unicornpaintings.com.
Swandog Studios (Art by Xenia) has some wonderful original
artwork with some Unicorn pictures (and equine / TF one's) too.
It has recently moved to it's own domain name, swandogstudio.com
Tonia D has a done a quite astounding Unicorn pictures, in
particular, look
at the picture at, http://members.tripod.com/~toniad_2/newestFAV.html
Lyne's Creations artwork site has a lot of wonderful 3D computer generated equine
and other artwork, and also has some unicorn pictures too. The
picture "Unicorn" on
the Fantasy Art page is
just mind-blowing, you will have to take a look.
Unicorn and Cat is a
beautiful picture and also worth seeing
Fantasy and Fables Store
This recently
opened online store has many wonderful unicorn
and other fantasy gifts within it, it's worth a look certainly !
Websites selling Unicorn figures;
Johnnas Stained Glass and Gifts has a series of excellent and quite beautiful
hand crafted stained glasswork unicorns.
Enchanted Fantasies has unicorn figures within it's collection.
Fantasy World Pewter online
store site has some wonderful unicorn
figures for sale in it's collection, you can visit it at http://www.fantasyworld.com/
Twilight
Productions
The author of Twilight
Productions emailed me
recently to tell me about her site and two
custom unicorn figures that she had made. These are just amazing
! (See the images below)
Not only that, but the site is an excellent one too. The site's
logo is a unicorn too, do
visit.
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(Images above used with the permission of the artist, do not copy or distribute elsewhere)
This author has
also writing a new site devoted to fantasy creatures, including
Unicorns,
Pegasi, Dragons, Gryphons, etc. This new site will be devoted
entirely to fantasy
models and artwork. I will post the link here once the site is
online.
Unicorn
Winery
Are you interested in Unicorns, and wine too ?
Then you may like to visit the Unicorn Winery
Located in Virginia, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains,
the Unicorn Winery specializes in producing premium Virginia
varietal wines.
What's more, their logo is a Unicorn too !!
You can see a
wonderful Pegasus statue in the process of being made!
If you visit the website of the artist and sculptor Cary
J. Van Dansik ,
and take a look at the Pegasus page,
you will get great insight into
the creation of beautiful sculpture of Pegasus, based on a
portrait
of Welsh mountain stallion. There is also a pair of unicorns
there too, as well as the most wonderful equine sculptures
you will probably ever see.
Anyone who likes
flying Unicorns and Pegasi, there is a great site
with a lot of beautiful original artwork. Take a look at ;
This site has been recently updates, and is now even better !
Another site of
interest is Pegasus Paradise
This is a very new website, but it's got a wonderfully large
picture gallery !
The brilliant artist
who's building this site has revised it recently,
Please note that it is still very much under construction.
It is most definitely worth visiting, you won't be disappointed.
More Unicorn Pictures
Another unusual
unicorn picture.
These two impressive stone unicorn figures are
on a factory wall in Stafford near my home.
They were erected when the building was
constructed which was sometime around 1937-1938.
Click on the image to see a close-up of one of these.
(These recent digital camera pictures replace the one's shown here previously)
Recently several more people
have sent to me some wonderful unicorn
artwork they had created, which with their permission
I am showing on these pages
This picture, created using
Photoshop, was sent to me by Mare Astra
as a self portrait. She is significant for having one of the
first Unicorn
websites I ever found on the Internet, and her site helped to
inspire the creation of this website over three years ago.
This was one of two pictures
sent to me by an artist called Shar.
Again, as I liked it so much, I asked if it could be displayed
here.
Content and Originality
Original work is becoming
rarer, and certainly should be valued. But too many
websites recently though are copying others ideas and work then
claiming
sole right to it themselves ! They also often use annoying Java
code that
stops the right mouse button from working. It's not easy to
bookmark pages
easily for reviewing on this page when half the browsers
functions have
been disabled by unfriendly Java code ! There are better
ways of protecting original images such as watermarks.
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