4d. Bifold Greeting Card: Alternative Artist Collection: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite: “The Kelpie”

A 5×7 inch greeting card on glossy cardstock paper, featuring a black and white illustration created in 1916 by the author and artist, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. The image I used here is in the Public Domain.

The front of this greeting card features a black and white illustration of a small girl running down a hillside of dark waving grass, wind whipping through the clouds above her, with wayward black locks of hair flying out behind her, while her tattered frock billows in the wind, and her dark stockings struggle to stay on her harried feet. She is looking up to the sky seemingly to call to the black hoard of bats that swarm above her, while an army of black cats are behind her ready to pounce at her word! an owl is on the wing in the corner of the image, while at the bottom of the hill the sun sets beyond the corner of ocean that is visible. This piece is called, “the Kelpie.”

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1888-1960, was a self-taught illustrator & author of several children’s books & collections of poetry about fairies, witches, magical creatures, & the wild animals of Australia, which was the land she called home. These tomes include The Enchanted Forest, Blossom: A Fairy Story, The Road to Fairyland, The Little Fairy Sister, Elves & Fairies, & many more!

This card comes complete with a coordinating white envelope and protective plastic sleeve at no extra charge.