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Wouldn't this be a much more wonderful way to travel than cars?
American artist Diana Sudyka uses vintage stamps from Europe as the starting point for her illustrations.
I first saw Pauline Baynes's illustrations in The Chronicles of Narnia, but later discovered what a prolific artist she was. She illustrated everything from fairy tales to Tolkien's work. She was one of his favorite illustrators.
Fairy tales are not mere whimsy but ways of seeing the world more deeply by using the fantastic & magical to open our eyes to the reality around us: from oppression to poverty to inequality. These tales struggle and wrestle with serious subjects in a way that probes the psyche.
H.R. Miller's illustrations for The Diamond Fairy Book (1897)
The magical illustrations of Puerto Rican American artist Raúl Colón.
To write a story we must understand it as children do because they place their whole selves into one when they read it.
(art by Jessie Wilcox Smith)
Mabel Lucie Attwell, Adrienne Segur, @terriwindling, Pauline Baynes
Trina Schart Hyman, Kinuko Y. Craft, Lisbeth Zwerger, Margaret Tarrant