“You forget– I’m the lady of the lake. I’m made of water. Now everything’s Flowing away from us…” -Merlin Movie 1998
“The Lady of The lake” (Commission) Medium: Watercolors, color pencils, acrylics, pastel and inks on Arches paper.
After a lot of sketching and ideas dropped I finally finished my first Lady of The Lake piece, she is my favorite character from the Arthurian cycle and its legends; one of the interpretations of this character that most captivated me, was the one of the 1998 Merlin’s Hallmark Film, after many years, it was time to do mine, I hope you like it.
The relationship between Arthur and Merlin at the point of the end of season three is something different.
When Arthur tells Gwaine and Elyan to take Gaius and go to the woods it seems for a moment he completely forgot about Merlin. Only when he turns back to him he’s like “oh yea you’re not my shadow after all, you’re your own person you may wanna go with them” - because let’s face it for most of the time Arthur treats Merlin like some kind of inseparable part of himself (when Arthur goes somewhere alone he’s taking Merlin, which in my interpretation is not alone, but I feel like for them it is - they are two sides of the same coin and that coin is going alone on a quest).
And Merlin is like “nah” because his place is with Arthur. And Arthur seems pleased. Which is funny because Gwaine or even Elyan would be more helpful in a battle (at least from the non magical perspective). But no. Arthur want Merlin and Merlin is okay with that.
Then at the round table when everybody except Merlin devoted themselves to battle and to Arthur, Arthur is like “Merlin get up we’re the same coin you can’t split the coin”. And Merlin is like “I know I just wanted to be asked personally”.
It’s like they are inseparable. But not like at the beginning when Merlin was clinging to Arthur so he can protect him. It’s unanimous now.
Arthur “I’m Arthur and that’s the other part of me - Merlin” Pendragon
And Merlin “even when he goes alone we’re going together” the Young Warlock
