Morning Musings: Illustrators

Monday, May 19, 2014

Whimsy

Whimsy: Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior

Cicely Mary Barker "Lavender Fairy"

Cicely Mary Barker was born in Surrey, England in 1895. She was frail as a child and suffered from epilepsy. Her father, an artist himself, encouraged her artistic talent. At first she took a correspondence course in art and later when her epilepsy abated she attended the Croydon School of Art. When she was 17 her father died, financially strapping the family. She was already selling her art for greeting cards and eventually to magazines and books to help the family's finances. By the time she was 27, in 1923, she was able to sell her illustrations and poems to a publisher. Her first book, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was published.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Illustrators

♫Fairy Tale♫

Yesterday I attended the Maryland/Delaware/West Virginia Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (MD/DE/WV SCBWI) Spring Conference. I'm a writer, but it's the illustrators I am drawn to. So I wanted to share the art and websites (click on their names) for these talented artists who brought their portfolios yesterday! The first one is a well-known artist, Paul O. Zelinsky. He was one of the featured speakers. Be sure to check out his website and watch the trailer for his newest book, "Z is for Moose".....