It's Friday, and that means fan art! This week we'll continue on from last week where we focused on saidin; this week it's time for the female half of the True Source. I also have a special little bonus for you guys at the end!

Portraying the Power must be a daunting task for an artist; I know I struggle to imagine how the weaves look like. I keep imagining the channelers using their hands to form/weave the strands, even though I know they don't. Are the different strands (Air, Fire, Spirit, Earth, Water) different colors? How thick is a normal sized strand of saidin? Do saidin and saidar look different when being being weaved? I have to remember to ask Team Jordan about this if I ever meet any of them!

But enough of my pondering, let's get on with the reason you're all here: the art!

Embracing saidar by Evil-Is-Relative

This is a photo-manipulation, and it's a clever piece. It is described numerous times in the book that opening up to saidar is imagining yourself to be a flower bud opening to the sun, and I like the colored threads that's meant to emulate strands of the Power. I especially like the subtle little heart-shape it creates on the top.

Weaving Saidar: Brown Ajah by polegnyn

This is very cool! A representation of how the Browns especially work with saidar, the square shapes are meant to represent building blocks of knowledge, and the flowers the way every Aes Sedai handle saidar uniquely. I love the composition, it's an exciting piece to look at.

Embracing Saidar by AzureLightning

I do wish this one came in a bigger size, because it's absolutely beautiful. It reminds me of the flower from Beauty and the Beast. Great visualization of the opening flower-concept.

Saidar by MeddlerInc

The color was what originally drew me to this one; the lovely sunset-warm golden yellows and oranges. The Aes Sedai in the books describe saidar as life itself, and this captures that. I also really like the simply flower-like shape in the middle, and the shapes coming out of it that looks like soft flower petals.

Learning Saidar by Love-Loyalty-Friends

This is actually how I imagine a weave to look like. This would obviously be a more complicated one, but that's how I think a weave looks like to a channeler. To me it looks like Water in the middle, the purple/pink is Spirit, and the red is of course Fire. Probably not what the artist intended, but that's how I see it!

Now, we can't talk about saidar without having an Aes Sedai included! One of my favorite Wheel of Time artists, David E, just released a new painting, and I wanted you to see it!

The Green Man's Cradle - WoT by Endave

Nynaeve, injured outside the Eye of The World. I love the sketchy/dreamy feel it has. This guy is brilliant, no?

That's it for this week! I hope you all will have a lovely weekend! I will, I'm gonna meet Neil Gaiman and get my tattered copy of Coraline signed! Until next week, my lovely readers.