The full length trailer for dark Norwegian indie film Thale is now available for your viewing pleasure. Even though the mythical creatures have been reinterpreted as human genetic mutations, it still looks amazing. Fine out more on the Thale Facebook page.

The spring issue of FAE is filled with faery magic, literally! As Lucy Cavendish shows us how to do ‘Spell Crafting’ with our faerie allies. Christine Lynch, daughter of Frances Griffiths (Cottingley Fairies) tells tales of real life faery encounters, and Elizabeth-Jane Baldry talks about the Fynoderee, illustrated by Alan Lee. We look at the artwork of some Cornish artists, including Peter Pracownik, Patrick Gamble and more! We meet some Unicorn Queens, and see some Enchanted Dream Wear in our special fashion features. Kitchen Faery, Sharon William’s prepares something sweet for Valentines Day and Australian artist Kim Turner shows us her cup cake faeries. Felicity Fyr Le Fay helps us to act on our ‘Faery Calling’ in a new 4 part series, and Doreen Virtue starts us off on the right track for 2012 with her Fairy card column for the spring months. Ceri Norman teaches us all about ‘Elf & Safety’ Icelandic Style! We look at the stunning inspiring sculptures of Lorell Lehman, and Bryony Whistlecraft talks us through the ‘Elfin Calendar’ illustrated by Aaron Pocock. We welcome back Hannah Titania who is now a regular columnist for FAE, and in this issue she talks about and shares some faery photographs, and much much more inside this jam-packed spring edition of FAE!

Portrait drawing is one aspect of art that has universal appeal. Ask anyone you know and they will tell you that they would love to have their portrait done, even if they cannot afford it. This fact offers those who are interested in drawing portraits quite an opportunity to learn the craft. Drawing likenesses is not easy but with practice you can master it and there is hardly any shortage of persons willing to let you use them for practice.

Grandpa Anton, he took a match and he looked at me (I was sitting on the coach, parallel to his sofa chair, eleven years old) and he looked me, then turning away struck the match on his shoe with a quick pompous gesture, drew heavily on his wooden pipe, then at last-shot a puff of smoke into the air- and then another and another until the tobacco was red hot inside the chimney of the pipe. Satisfied, he continued on, his right hand gasping the pipe, between his index and second finger, resting the side of his palm on the sofa chair, his legs now halfway crossed, his small body pressed backward into the softness of the chair, a wee unshaven. He mumbles in a confidential tone of one who relates to an unbelievable moment of quiet-the television in front of him, no more than four feet away, he's watching 'Gunsmoke' (he loves cowboy movies); it's nine o'clock in the evening. At this moment his thumb moves, he's checking the stuffed burning tobacco in his pipe, so do I-but from a distance.

It is said by Enoch and Methuselah that men came into the world in the time of the shadow of the serpent, and they fell swiftly under his dominion; for he sent his emissaries among them: Azaz'el (Angelic Watcher), Lilith & Asmodeus (Lilith married Asmodeus, the king of Demons), Agaliarept (The Henchman of Hell or Sheol) Naamah (the angelic whore of heaven conceived while Adam was married to Lilith), Nephilim (decedents of the Watchers, the Giants of Old), King Og (King of the Nephilim).The Nachash...