I’ve always wanted to join The Folktale week challenge. The concept of it has always been appealing to me and folktales are very much close to me. I believe my illustration style goes pretty well with this type of literature. So last year I finally did participate with few illustrations and this one below was my favourite.
The topic was PATH. I decided to illustrate the Slovenian story ”Zvezdica Zaspanka” – The Sleepy Twinkle Star. It was written by Fran Milčinski – Ježek in 1952. It was the first Slovenian radio play and has been performed as a puppet theatre play. Later it was published as a book story. It remains one of the most popular children’s stories in Slovenia and it was also one of my favourites when I was a kid and I still love to read it to my kids! I hope you will like my interpretation. I have painted the scene where The Moon sent The Sleepy Twinkle Star to Earth.