Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Alain Grée




I've always loved the universe of illustrator Alain Grée well before I knew his name--I had a record of Rumpelstiltskin (a weird story I remember) when I was a child, cover by you guessed it.
His style is pure joy, lyrical throwback characters, stomping fairytale fonts, perfectly planned quadrants and the colors...oh the colors! What would it be like to live in that world? I wish I could for a day...

I've been doing more graphics for the show for the past 5 days and am trying to keep it light. I mean my theme is "A Butterfly Circus" afterall...
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13 comments:

  1. littlebyrdSeptember 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM

    Delightful! As an adult I never paid much attention to childrens illustrations until I had my bebe. I think I enjoy them maybe even more than he does. These are especially good!

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  2. evenclevelandSeptember 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM

    These are so charming!

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  3. heidiSeptember 23, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    I treasure those old illos!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM

    I am a big fan of charley harper
    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/uploaded/downloads/charley_harper_desktop.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/harper&h=768&w=1024&sz=123&tbnid=uVtYXdIWpukJ::&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcharley%2Bharper&hl=en&usg=__Xg5WFTEAXH9arnnpn000IgP54rA=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image&cd=1

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  5. ChrisSeptember 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM

    These look vaguely familiar to me...I wonder if I had seen his work as a child? The last one is my favorite :)

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  6. limonanaSeptember 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM

    c'est tres jolie!!! i can't tell you how much i love this style of illustration...thanks so much for sharing!

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  7. mayalunaSeptember 23, 2008 at 4:19 PM

    I love how you speak about Gree's work...you're writing is beautiful and sums up a favorite illustrator perfectly!

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  8. JuliaSeptember 24, 2008 at 1:31 PM

    Ever delightful! This illustrator is one of my FAVORITES :)

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  9. CamilleSeptember 24, 2008 at 10:07 PM

    I love this type of illustration and the colors are a lot of fun.

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  10. Mrs.FrenchSeptember 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    I want to wallpaper B's room in these.

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  11. Paul PincusSeptember 25, 2008 at 3:55 PM

    stomping fairytale fonts. i love that.

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  12. montagueSeptember 25, 2008 at 5:27 PM

    oh they are wonderful!!!

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  13. ArtSparkerSeptember 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM

    One book I have been looking for for some time is the little golden book in which a poodle tricks a baker into letting him assist. It's from the same era.

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