Bard the Bowmanby ~fresco-child

Traditional Art / Paintings / Illustration / Storybook

“Then Bard drew his bowstring to his ear. The dragon was circling back, flying low, and as he came the moon rose above the eastern shore and silvered his great wings. ‘Arrow!’ said the bowman. ‘Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you come from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!’” Fire and Water, pg. 231

Bard the Bowman's pose was designed as an homage to Antoine Bourdelle's dynamic "Hercules the Archer" (1909) on display at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

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