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My Blog has Moved
Hello, My blog has moved to a new location. It is now holed up on my website. If you would like to see it or subscribe come here. http://www.thedmcollection.com/blogs/news All the best Daniel
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Why did the Chicken Cross the Channel?
Image © Daniel Mackie Being a prime tourist location, Greenwich Market is a fantastic place to share Daniel’s illustrations with people from across the globe, and I always find it interesting to see...
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Have you seen a Dragon in the South China Sea?
Image © Daniel Mackie This is the first Mythical beast I have painted! I keep getting asked to do a unicorn, but I can’t quite bring myself to do it! Dragons Have much more punch, in particular Chinese...
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A New Year’s resolution
As the calendar turns to another year, our thoughts turn to new beginnings. What better creature from the Collection to inspire a new start than our little robin red breast? Our New Year’s resolution...
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Foxy Lady!
Image© Daniel Mackie Humans have always lived in close proximity to Foxes. So it’s no surprise that wherever these clever creatures inhabit, you will find many ancient folklorish tales surrounding...
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Have you seen those claws!?
Image © Daniel Mackie Badgers live underground in setts which they inherit from previous generations; some can even be over a hundred years old. They’ll continue to clean, maintain, improve, and...
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Can Curiosity be Deadly? – The Fox and the Hare
Image © Daniel Mackie You need to be careful with your curiosity. To much of it could result in you finding yourself in a life threatening situation. Aesop’s fable, The Hare and the Fox illustrates...
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What’s the chance of finding a Partridge in a Pear Tree?
Image © DanielMAckie ‘Three French hens, two turtle doves … (all together now) … and a partridge in a pear treeeeeeeee!’ “Hooray! Let’s do it again.” … ugh! where’s the sherry!! Yes it’s nearly that...
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The Red Squirrel has an Unlikely Ally
Image © Daniel Mackie Once upon a time, (a mere 10,000 years ago), a deep freeze gripping much of Europe finally began to subside, and as the ice sheets retreated, the trees steadily marched...
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“Your Turtle Dovin”
Image ©Daniel Mackie From the New Testament to Buddy Holly, Turtle Doves have impacted our culture across 2000 years. No doubt we will be, as Buddy Holly says in, “That’ll be the day”, giving, “all...
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The Hare in the Moon
Image © Daniel MackieMyth and folklore connecting the moon to the Hare appears all across the world: in Africa, China, Europe, India, Japan, Mexico, and North America: with many a moon goddess...
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A Carol of Robins
Erithacus rubecula, the beloved Robin Redbreast, was this year crowned Britain’s National Bird after claiming a respectful 34% of the general publics vote. Close in contention was the ever silent Barn...
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Why is the Owl Wise?
In western culture, if the owl were to take an IQ test he would probably score highly, probably, “superior intelligence!” A score between 120-129, not quite Genius, (130+) but pretty smart! Lord...
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It’s a Dogs Life!
Doggy paddle, The most ancient of all swimming strokes. It was the first swimming stroke used by ancient humans, learned by observing animals swim. Maybe Aesop, the Ancient Greek story-teller was...
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Curiosity Nearly Killed the Elephant
Elephants are weird-looking Creatures. Like the giraffe, hippopotamus and rhinoceros they kind of stand alone in their unique appearance. Early depictions of Elephants are fantasy like, this is...
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Goldfinch – Salvation, Freedom and Wealth
The goldfinch is rich in symbolism, it has been featured in hundreds of Renaissance paintings. In Paintings of the Madona and child the bird if often perched or nesting in Mary’s or the christ childs...
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White Hart – More than just a Pub Name.
Heraldic badges of royalty have given rise to many of the most common pub names in the UK, The White Hart is one of them. The White Hart was King Richard II’s heraldic badge. When Richard II was...
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The Frog
I have been meaning to add a frog to the collection for a long time, but it took me a while to get a simple enough composition. Unusually for me the creatures environment is not entirely within it,...
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Warming his five wits…..
Long eared owl I have been meaning to do this long eared owl for a long time. I have practically have a sketch book full of variations on this design. In Roman and celtic mythology owls are associated...
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Who’s calling me Grumpy!
Good badger, Bad Badger. In literature, the badger falls into either one of these two camps. “Good badger” like Kenneth Grahame’s Mr Badger and, “bad Badger” like Beatrix Potter’s Tommy Brock, the...
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