“The Peasant and the Devil” for ‘Harvest’ on day 6 of Folktale Week on Instagram.
This tells the tale of a wily peasant who tricks the devil. The peasant agrees to give him half of his field’s harvest, but only everything below ground. The peasant plants turnips, so leaving the devil with the wilted leaves above. The next year the devil wishes for everything underground instead, but the peasant sows wheat, leaving the devil with the stubby roots and so reaping a good harvest again...
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I had a play around with some new colours for this image. I’m not sure I like the end results, but i enjoyed the repetitive mark-making and looseness of the textures!
