Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

The amazing Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940) was directed by Wilfred Jackson. Chernabog was animated by Ukrainian artist Vladimir Tytla...
#WyrdWednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

"Heavy rain fell on the ground, splashing a large number of fireworks."
"All will be well and the stars will never be swallowed by darkness."
🎨 中下游 Zhòng xiàyóu, #illustrator & poet from Shanghai: “I’m broken but I’m shining”
#illustration

“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek."
―Mark Richard, Fishboy
#SwampSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #BookChatWeekly

Books for #Victorian cat enthusiasts:
Clever Cats: publisher Peter G. Thomson (1885)
Cat Tales: Lathrop Publishing (1893)
Pussy-Cat Town by Marion Ames Taggart (1906)
The Wonderful Kittens published by R. Worthington (1883)
#bookcover #Caturday

Deserters from Napoleon’s army are said to have hidden in the Paris catacombs & survived on mushrooms grown in their horse’s manure. Champignons de Paris, a delicacy, were farmed in the catacombs in the 1800s; the environment gave the mushrooms their unique flavour #WyrdWednesday

"Curiouser and curiouser..."
Magic lantern slides created by W. Butcher & Sons (London, 1905-1908) featuring some of the curious characters Alice met in Wonderland
#AliceinWonderlandDay #AliceDay

Tenggren’s own fairytale: he grew up with his grandfather in poverty on a remote farm near Västergötland; by 25 he was working in Manhattan as an illustrator; at 40 he joined Disney in LA. His last years were spent on a farm in Maine that reminded him of Sweden #FairyTaleTuesday

Gustaf Tenggren's for Walt Disney’s 1937 animation Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (Brothers Grimm) He was invited to be Art Director on Snow White after a Disney talent scout discovered him in NYC His childhood in rural Sweden inspired his story-world #FairyTaleTuesday

Only the wise old owl knows your fate…
Board game covers for 'Chiromagica or The Hand of Fate’, a fortune-telling game by McLoughlin Bros (1858-1920, New York)
Wizard with trusty owl edition c.1901; Witch & black cats, bats & owls edition c.1903
#ofDarkandMacabre #OwlishMonday

Originally these traditions were associated w/ the longest day (21 June #SummerSolstice) when the veil is thinnest between the Huldufólk world & ours. To be safe, roll in dew, celebrate & watch for Huldufólk on both 21 & 24 June! #FairyTaleTuesday #DarkGreenWeek
🎨 John Bauer