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Kristina Layton

Kristina Layton: Paintings and Illustrations

About Me

Select "Dire Wolf" from the playlist at the bottom of this section and enjoy the illustrations below~In the timbers of Fennario, the wolves are running 'round. The winter was so hard and cold froze ten feet 'neath the ground. Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.I sat down to my supper, t'was a bottle of red whiskey. I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me. Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.When I awoke, the Dire Wolf- six hundred pounds of sin- was grinning at my window, all I said was "come on in". Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game. I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades but the cards were all the same. Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire, the Dire Wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire. Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.********************************************************* **** ***************************THE*END************************** * ************************************************************ *I am a painter, a wife, a mother, a Girl Scout leader, a tree hugger, a sunrise watcher, a music lover, a dancer, a storyteller, a storyreader, a homemaker and an explorer.

My Interests

Painting, illustration, nature, mountains, hiking, snowshoeing, wildflowerswildlife, owls, elves, folk tales, fairy talesNorse mythology, Vikings, Wagner, Romanticism, Byron, Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, the Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Morris, J.W. Waterhouse, Lewis Carroll, the golden age of illustration, Arthur Rackham, Richard Doyle, Cecily Mary Barker, Maxfield Parrish, Audubon, the Hudson River schoolthe Transcendentalists, Walt Whitman, Lewis and Clarknative americans, pioneers, mining camps, Baby Doe Tabor, Isabella Bird, Karen Blixen, the Beats, biographies, ghosts, dulcimers, dollhouses, vintage pottery~ always observing, absorbing, learning, living, loving

I'd like to meet:

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!

Music:

The Good Old Grateful DeadRailroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band

Books:

Hans Christian Andersen, Isak Dinesen, Jack Kerouac, The Little Prince, Watership Down

Heroes:

Beatrix Potter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sacagawea