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St Anne’s Cathedral @ Belfast
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Say you stayed home
Alone with the flu
Find out from friends
That wasn’t true

Go out at night
With your headphones on again
And walk through
The Manhattan valleys of the dead

Didn’t want to be your ghost
Didn’t want to be anyone’s ghost…

~ The National

Staying with the Irish Faerie theme, this is my interpretation of the Banshee.
A banshee is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or “mounds” that dot the Irish countryside, which are known as síde in Old Irish. 
Drawn using Krita.
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Saturday
Afternoon, the sunshine
Pours like wine
Through your window

And I know
Golden June can turn
An empty gray
Against your window

And I feel like
I’m on the outside
Of the circle…

~ Ocean Colour Scene

A little variation on my previous post which, I feel, sets it off rather well.
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(at Donaghadee)
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Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Another layer to my lighthouse painting depicting the legendary Kraken of Norse Mythology.
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.

~ Herman Melville

A little bit more time and care with this latest painting.
This is Donaghadee’s iconic lighthouse, built in the early 1800s and earning the town the it’s reputation as “The beacon of the coast ”.
Drawn exclusively using Krita from a photograph taken two years ago from the North Pier at low tide.
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And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I’m tired of Castles in the Air
I’ve got a dream I want the world to share an’ castle walls
Just leave me to despair

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
A dream come true, I’ll live there ‘til I die
I’m asking you, to say my last goodbye
The love we knew, ain’t worth another try…

~ Don McLean

The Moat, Donaghadee.
Built in 1818 to house dynamite being used to blast out a new seabed for the newly planned harbour, this miniature castle was built on the site of a Norman motte & bailey.
It has formed a part of the Donaghadee skyline ever since.
Drawn from a photo I had taken last summer and coloured using Krita.
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