Two Bricks

 

Two bricks from a trip to London that caught my attention, Kid's art is just so wonderful.

Milena Walter II

 

Milena Walter's reversed zoo, with food for thought!.

Ruth Fulknit III

 

The determination of this porcupine is something to behold, illustration by Ruth Fulknit.

Amanda Mijangos

 

Today a sketch from Amanda Mijangos's sketch book.

Alan Howard III

'Crocodile'. Based on a Poem by Kornei Chukousky. Verses by Richard Coe. Illustrated by Alan Howard, published in 1964.

André François XI

 

'The Tattooed Sailor', cartoons from France by André François. This book published in 1953, is a collection of cartoons by this master of drawing and humour. I have selected only his tattoo cartoons for this post.

Olga Shevolya III

 

Olga Shevolya's fine and often translucent layered illustrations have been featured here before, she is just completing her Masters in Italy.

Sara Fanelli IV

 

British summertime has arrived with some expressions of time on Sara Fanelli's clocks. From 'The New Faber Book of Children's Verse' published 2001.

Isidro Ferrer V

 

A theatre poster by Isidro Ferrer  for; 'le Petit Theatre de Lausanne'.

"Many of the classic tales exhibit violence without sweetening it, as a power structure that organises the world. In Goosebumps, Perrault does not resort to allegory to talk about incest, but presents it as a political reality: the sovereign who turns his desire into a right and the stranger's body into territory. It portrays a logic of domination that, unfortunately, we have not overcome. The escape of the protagonist is not an escape from desire, but from the system that legitimises and imposes it. Poster for "Alone in my donkey skin", version of the Perrault story." Isidro

 

Nancy McKie IV

 

I do love the energy and fun of Nancy McKie's work and these budgerigars are just wonderful in colours and composition, a picture that gives me joy!

Una Maw

 

These wonders are in the collection of the London Museum  they were created by Una Maw, Una Maw died in 1941 was a British author, painter, These are some of the characters of "The Vegetable Kingdom," a collection of 34 handmade vegetable-themed rag dolls in the 1920s. 

Una travelled to India in 1916, so, perhaps, acquired some of the materials then, bringing them back with her to London before making the dolls around 1920. Of particular note are the outfits worn by Miss Lettuce and Mademoiselle French Bean, which seem to be constructed from the ornately patterned edge of a sari.

Sara Fanelli III

I have just bought a copy of 'The New Faber Book of Children's Verse' published 25 years ago in 2001, edited by Matthew Sweeney and illustrated by Sara Fanelli, whom I have long admired. It has the delicious madness of Edward Lear's illustrated limericks with Sara's illustrations in pen and ink scattered through the text.

Olga Ptashnik II

 

Olga Ptashnik loves owls and you can see it in her brilliant watercolour drawings.

International day of the forest

 

I have just found out that Saturday the 21st March was 'international day of the forest' and though this is not a forest, I claim this circle of oak as my forest, I laid my fathers ashes there today, and one day my ashes will join his and some of my other loves. There has to be hope, and releasing the ashes in the soil at the roots of an oak for me meant the start of reincarnation and new beginnings.