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Today's new drawing is of a Mud Fairy named May.
May is also a River Fairy.
May the Mud Fairy
(new drawing)
May is a Mud Fairy AND a River Fairy. In this first drawing, she is seen having just landed in the shallow stream to wash up. She had transformed to mortal size and then gone to look for crayfish or crawdads in the mud. Now she is washing up. Below is a drawing of May the RIVER Fairy. They are the same Fairy. In this second drawing, May is done washing up.
May is a young - beautiful little girl Fairy. She lives in an underground magical village with her family. She sometimes is asked to go out to search for crawdads in the mud. A crawdad is nearly as big as a Fairy in the Fairy's diminutive natural size of about 5 inches tall. So when searching for crawdads, which are also called crayfish, May uses her magic and the advanced Fairy Technology to transform into a mortal-sized little girl of about 6 years old. When she is mortal sized she can more easily dig in the mud and find and collect crawdads.
As you can see, May prefers plant-based clothing. So she is wearing a blouse and a pair of pants made from the leaves of small local plants. The outfits grows in size with her when she transforms to mortal size.
May has a best friend among the animals of the woods. This animal is a male or buck Whitetail Deer. His name is Stag. Stag loves rolling in the mud sometimes. So he has no problem using his powerful sense of smell to help May find the crawdads. In fact, did you know that Whitetail Deer have a sense of smell like a dog's... meaning they can smell things 500-1000 times more than a human. Of course, Fairies also have a greater sense of smell than their human cousins, but their sense of smell is nowhere near that of a dog or a deer. So Stag really helps May fid the crawdads or crawfish.
Did you know that Whitetail Deer are omnivores. They DO eat small animals or carrion that they find. This includes fish that they find washed up on the shore of lakes and riveers. They also eat bugs or Arthropods. Since crayfish are also Arthropods it is not a stretch to think that Whitetail Deer also eat crawdads. So, that being said, Stag eats crayfish and that is another reason he helps May find them.
May is a Fairy so she can use a summoning charm to get crawfish out of the mud... IF the crawdads are not too deep. If they are too deep in the mud she has to dig with her hands. That is why she has so much mud on her hands, feet, and even on her face. She was digging in the mud. May will share some of the crayfish with Stag... which helps motivate Stag to help her find the crayfish. By the way, I am using the terms "crayfish" and "crawdads" interchangeably because they ARE the same animal.
If you are wondering why the May is not holding the crayfish bucket it is because she already took it to her village entrance. Than entrance is in one of the pine trees behind her... just beyond the bushes that are on the banks of the river. She flies to the village entrance while still in her mortal form or size. This make it easier to carry the bucket, although when she is an adult Fairy she will have more powerful magic and be able to fly while carrying things like a bucket full of crayfish. So she flew the crawdads to her village entrance and then she flew back to the river. (The crawdads were found in the mud on the banks of the river or in the water. She is now washing off the mud while standing in the river. Of course it is a small stream, but a stream is still a river... albeit a small river.
May the River Fairy all cleaned up
(Can you see all the differences in this drawing? Also, can you spot the "happy bushes?"
Answers at the bottom of this page.)
NOTE: This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the button labeled: "Fantasy, Myths, and Circus." Then scroll down to the bottom of the list for this new Fairy drawing. Below are some other River Fairies from previous posts.
Gardening Fairy
(Garden Fairies are often called Mud Fairies too.)
Fairy of the River
Fairy by Stream diminutive sized
Fairy by a Stream mortal sized
Fairy Healer named Brooklyn (Fairy Healers often specialize in finding river plants with medicinal qualities.)
Fairy on a Lilypad
(This is a Pond Fairy.)
Here are some of the difference in the two top drawings: bunny, shading on plants, fingers on one hand are in different position, wing patterns are not exactly alike as the wing patterns in first drawing, river rocks are different, reflectioins in water near the far shore, more birds in second drawing, more leaf shafts in reeds in foreground, less shafts in reeds in background, and patterns on some of the rocks in the stream. Do you spot any other differences?
Also, one happy bush is in the background and the deer is facing it and May's finger is pointing at it in the first drawing, The other happy bush is on the left side of the drawing in the foreground.
