Ink. Koshei is an ever-present evildoer in Russian fairy tales, in order to defeat whom the hero needs to carry out an infamously elaborate procedure. One variation I can remember is such: find the grand tree underneath which there is a chest, in which there is a hare; catch the hare, from which will come a bird; catch the bird from which will come an egg, break the egg from which will come a needle, which can be fashioned into an arrow which will pierce the Koshei's heart. Or something like that. I've always imagined Koshei to be an old, scrawny man wearing all black with a crown atop his head. With this illustration, I tried to take his image in another direction. He still looks dead, but more so, somehow. |
