I had a wonderful time playing with charcoal pencils and water colors. I really like the colored results this time. I think I found a technique I want to pursue with this.
A little over a week ago I went for a walk in a wonderful icy – almost unreal – beautiful forest that I am lucky to live nearby. 
There is always some tiny wonder to see there. As soon as I stepped into the forest, I was faced with the forest guard: The biggest – most marvelous and slightly scary – living bright yellow blob. Later I learned it was a “Bævresvamp” – some kind of fungis. His long formal name is “Tremella mesenterica”, but who wishes to be so formal when joining the Wood Goblin Winter Festival? He was so big and so yellow, that my camera refused to capture his brightness. I got a nice photo of his much smaller cousin that you see here under.
The guard pointed out the direction to take. Soon I met up with “Træløberen”, the tiniest little cutie of a bird, rushing up and down the trees. You might know her as “Eurasian treecreeper”. I was mesmerized. I had never seen that species before. I think I snatched at least a hundred photos. 200 meters in the forest and I had already encountered two tiny miracles!
It did not end there though. Again and again I stumbled on shapes and shadows in the fantastic light of sunshine through icy fog and old crooked trees. Soon it all grew to be wonderful wood goblins of all imaginable kinds, dancing, stumbling, sneaking and creeping through the woods.
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I had a great time with them. Until the mother of the woods poked my shoulder and went “Thank you for your visit, it was a blast! Now go home, shoo!” There are not that many creatures of that forest I would obey instantly. But when the huge powerful mother of all the magic pokes your shoulder, you do obey! So I packed away my camera, waved to her and her pet raven and turned back to my car still entirely enchanted.
As it turned out, Rasmus needed me at home, so the mother of the wood had been right – it was time to leave. I have so many fun photographs of the wood goblins, so today I turned one of them into a digital drawing.
