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A Little Night Magick – The Darker Side of Jessica Galbreth’s Enchanted Art – a 2004 Calendar   This is a beautifully rendered calendar, featuring the art of Jessica Galbreth, and contains a few bits that were unexpected extras. It is a calendar, containing what we usually expect in a calendar… moon phases, major holidays, the dates (and times in EST) of the equinoxes and solstices, it also features the wonderful artwork of Jessica Galbreth.   I became familiar with Ms. Galbreth’s work a couple of years ago, and in cooperation with the artist, featured some of her work on one of our websites.  She has a way with the feminine figure, seductive and sultry, and some of her works are colorful and imaginative while others are dark and mysterious.  Her female compositions honor Deity, fairy folk and the Witch in all of us.   This calendar, as described in the title, explores a lot of her works done mainly in black and white, with the female figure softly enhanced in flesh tones and subtle colors  that makes her stand out from the rest of the composition (as in September’s “Autumn Enchantress”).  The play on the words “Darker Side” also comes from her compositions, where the female figure can be almost gothic in appearance (as in February’s “Gothic Faery”, or November’s “Dragon Keeper”), or a or a creature of the night (as in January’s “Mistress of Wolves” or in June’s “Vampire”).  She also includes the dark mysterious (as in October’s “Black Magick”). The one strikingly different piece is August’s Bastet, with its rich reds and rusts as background to the Goddess in a traditional white Egyptian dress and a dark black cat.  Bolder strokes, radiance and energy single out this work, as though Ms. Galbreth wanted that Deity to stand out amongst her other calendar pages. Each face is alluring, each pose is striking and you can see the strength of Ms. Galbreth’s talent exhibited in this calendar.   The added bonus is the first page of the calendar, where Ms. Galbreth shares with us how she creates her paintings.  She lays out a step by step illustration of a work in progress and it is interesting to see how an artist goes from inspiration to illustration. If you like the mystical, the magical and the dark, this calendar with present you with 12 months of visual enjoyment while serving the most practical of uses: keeping track of the coming year.    Boudica  Reviews Editor  The Wiccan/Pagan Times  http://www.twpt.com