Sana Habibirad IV

Bold bright foxes by Iranian illustrator Sana Rad.

Sana Habibirad III

The Moon's Chickens

It was night. It became morning. The short-legged black hen jumped to the roof, pecked at the sky and picked seven stars.
She threw the stars in front of her chickens. The chickens ate the stars. On the head of each of them grew a silver crest. Seeing the chickens, the moon shouted: "Gee! My children have grown arms and legs!" And pulled them up.
The hen said: "No! These are my children". And pulled them down.
The hen pulled and the moon pulled.
It was morning. The chickens were stuck between the earth and the sky.

Writer: Shokoh Ghasemnia, Illustrator: Sana Rad

Sana Habibirad II

Illustrations by Sana Habibirad whose works I have admired for a long time. Sana uses wonderfully distorted proportions created from print and collaged drawings. These illustrations are from one of three volumes of; 'Here and There Stories' from a mixture of authors, published by Peydayesh.

Sana Rad I

Dom finds some great treasures on her one, two, three, four , five blogs. Yesterday she showed the work of 'Sana Rad'  Sana Habibirad.
Sana Rad is an Iranian illustrator who studied in Bucharest, her work is other worldly to me, it's culture shines through, and it is wondrous in its different visual accent.  By this I mean its differences are not as dramatic as a different visual language but the subtle nuances of the pictures have that appeal of an accent that you can understand and enjoy.