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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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!
These are so charming!
I treasure those old illos!
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
These look vaguely familiar to me...I wonder if I had seen his work as a child? The last one is my favorite :)
c'est tres jolie!!! i can't tell you how much i love this style of illustration...thanks so much for sharing!
I love how you speak about Gree's work...you're writing is beautiful and sums up a favorite illustrator perfectly!
Ever delightful! This illustrator is one of my FAVORITES :)
I love this type of illustration and the colors are a lot of fun.
I want to wallpaper B's room in these.
stomping fairytale fonts. i love that.
oh they are wonderful!!!
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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