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Creating art is a magic that makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds...
- Leonora Carrington, who was born #OTD in 1917
Pre-raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse was born #OTD in 1849. He is best remembered for his paintings of women from Greek mythology & Arthurian legend.
Don't be afraid to dream. To create one needs to look at the world around them, pay attention to the details and open one's whole heart to what one finds. Then bring that to the page: whether one is writing or drawing or painting.
(illustrations by Manka Kasha)
This whole pandemic has been rough, so when I am finally able to go back to the beach I will proudly stroll towards the water, pandemic weight and all.
(illustration by Arnold Lobel)
My Monday mood: longing to be a character from a Ghibli film lying in the grass to daydream or read, or just out of pure delight.
I think part of the reason that I love animals so much is because I grew up reading books that had animals as characters, whether it was Beatrix Potter's or E.B. White's.
Eleanor Vere Boyle's illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina"
Ukrainian artist Georgi Ivanovich Narbut's illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale
In 1987, only months before his death, Warhol produced a small series about Hans Christian Andersen's visual art. It included a portrait of the Dane and three of his silhouettes — in typical Warhol style.