~ Marsela Hajdinjak-Krec

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Marsela Hajdinjak-Krec has been a professional
illustrator since 1996. She illustrates children's books,
picture books and textbooks and regularly
contributes to several children's magazines.
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She has created characters and scenography for
animated films. She received the "Grigor Vitez" Award
in 2005 for her book illustrations for the book,
"Water Sprite and Old Pear Tree".
She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
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~Sunday Poem

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“Valentine, Oh Valentine”
(For the man or the woman of your dreams)

Valentine Oh Valentine…..,
Darlin’ won’t you please be mine….,
My love for you is on the line…..,
Lovely Valentine….! ! !

Valentine, Oh Valentine…..,
The one who makes me feel so fine…..,
You’re in my dreams and on my mind….,
Handsome Valentine….! ! !

Valentine, Oh Valentine…..,
You’ve made me leave my past behind…..,
Let’s toast our future, pour the wine….
Lovely Valentine….! ! !

Poem by Trade Martin
Artist unknown to me!

~Happy Valentine!

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Cupid Corgi may be fictitious creature
but his spirit is Real;

~By Tasha Tudor
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~Norman Rockwell

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Norman Rockwell werd geboren op 3 febr 1894 
en is gestorven op 8 november 1978) was een
Amerikaanse kunstschilder en illustrator.
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Rockwell tekende veertig jaar lang de
voorpagina's
voor The Saturday Evening Post.
Tot zijn bekendere thema's behoren:

-Willie Gillis, een gewone soldaat die een
gewoon leven leidde en nooit in een gevecht
terechtkwam.

-Rosie the Riveter, een vrouw die in de
Amerikaanse defensie-industrie werkt.

-Saying Grace, korte gebeden.

-Four Freedoms, geschilderde voorpagina's met
de vier vrijheden zoals deze door president
Roosevelt waren verwoord:

-Vrijheid van meningsuiting, Godsdienstvrijheid,
'bevrijd van tekortkomingen' en 'vrij van angst'.
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Without thinking too much about it in specific
terms, I was showing the America I knew and
observed to others who might not have noticed.
My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical
American. I am a story teller."
~by Norman Rockwell~
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Norman Rockwell was a 20th century American
painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular
appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most
famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life
scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post
magazine over more than four decades.
Norman Rockwell thought of himself first and
foremost a commercial illustrator.
Hesitant to consider it art, he harbored deep insecurities
about his work. What is unmistakable, however,
is that Rockwell tapped into the nostalgia of a people
for a time that was kinder and simpler.
His ability to create visual stories that expressed
the wants of a nation helped to clarify and, in a sense,
create that nation's vision.
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~More Alice

Through the Looking Glass and

What Alice found There!
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Illustrated by Michelle Wiggins
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Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's
literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Although it makes no reference to the events in
the earlier book, the themes and settings of
Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror
image of Wonderland The first book begins outdoors,
in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4)
Huses frequent changes in size as a plot device,
also drawing on the imagery of playing cards
The second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night
exactly six months later, on November 4
(the day before Guy Fawkes Night) It uses frequent
changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device,
and draws on the imagery of chess.
In it, there are many mirror themes, including
opposites, time running backwards, and so on.
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~Cinzia Ratto

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She was born in 1968 in Italy.
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http://www.cinziaratto.it/
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No more Space

Ik werk altijd met Window Life Writer

en die geeft te kennen dat

ik helaas geen posts meer kan plaatsen!

Ik snap niet precies waarom, eerst dacht ik aan

een up-date ofzo.

dus bedacht ik dat ik het gewoon ook

via Blogger zou kunnen doen!

Maar helaas die geeft te kennen dat mijn

space ruimte vol zit...Ik zit dus gewoon aan mijn Tax..

Ik kan nog wel tekst op mijn blogs zetten

maar absoluut géén foto's meer!

En dat vind ik leuker als mijn gekwebbel

dus nu moet ik eens even gaan bedenken

wat ik nú verder ga doen???

Ik laat het jullie nog weten!

Groetjes voor nu!

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I always work with Window Life Writer

which indicates that

I unfortunately won't be able to add new posts!

I did not understand, at first I thought

an up-date or something.

So I thought I just try to post

with Blogger!

But unfortunately that indicates that my

space area is full ... I just have reached my Tax ..

I can still put text on my blogs

but absolutely no more pictures!

So now I need a few days to think

What I am going to do about this??

I'll let you know soon!

Loving Regards for now!

~Dominic Murphy

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Dominic Murphy is a professional artist.
Living in Hertfordshire, England. Married with
three beautiful daughters. Born in Sheffield England 1963.
Studied art at West Surrey College of Art and
Design (foundation). St.Martin's School of
Art (BA(hons) degree in fine art painting).
First inspired to paint when he saw the work
of Francis Bacon.
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"When you own a piece of my work you own a piece of me."
~Dominic Murphy~
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http://www.dominicmurphyart.com/

~Anthony Browne

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Anthony Edward Tudor Browne was born 11 Sept. 1946
and is a British author and illustrator of children's books,
with nearly forty titles to his name.
He is the current Children's Laureate.
Anthony Browne was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
His parents, Jack and Doris May Browne, owned a
pub in Wyke, Yorkshire, and Browne grew up there.
As a young boy, he enjoyed art, and used to
draw with his father. He also played rugby in school,
as well as football and cricket.
His future ambition was to be a journalist,
a cartoonist, or a boxer.
He studied graphic design at Leeds College of Art,
where he graduated in 1967.
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He intended to become a painter, but being short
of money he took as job as a medical illustrator,
drawing the insides of bodies for
Manchester Royal Infirmary. After three years
he grew tired of the job's
repetitiveness and moved on to design greeting cards
for Gordon Fraser. He designed cards for fifteen years
before he started writing and illustrating his own books.
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He had his first book published in 1976,
Through the Magic Mirror. It was not particularly
successful at first, although it is still in print.
A Walk in the Park followed and gained a cult
following. Bear Hunt was more commercially successful,
and his breakthrough came with Gorilla in 1983,
an idea from one of the greeting cards he had designed.
It won him the Kate Greenaway Medle,
which he won again in 1992 for Zoo.
He has also won the Kurt Maschler 'Emil' Award
three times, for Gorilla (1983),
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (1988) and
Voices in the Park (1998). In 2000 he became
the first British illustrator ever to win the
Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his
services to children's literature.
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Gorillas are frequently featured in Browne's books,
as he has said he is fascinated by them.
He was once asked to present a children's programme,
whilst sitting in a cage of gorillas, and despite
being badly bitten by one of them he got on with
it before being taken to hospital. His character "Willy"
is said to be based on himself. He currently resides in Kent.
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A selection of books illustrated by Browne:
Through the Magic Mirror, 1976
A Walk in the Park, 1977
Bear Hunt,  1979
Hansel and Gretel, 1981
Bear Goes to Town, 1982
Gorilla, 1983
Willy the Wimp, 1985
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Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, 1988
Little Bear Book, 1988
I Like Books, 1988
Things I Like, 1989
A Bear-y Tale, 1989
The Tunnel, 1990
Trail of Stones, 1990
The Night Shimmy, 1991
Zoo, 1993
The Daydreamer, 1994
King Kong, 1994
Willy the Wizard, 1995
Willy the Dreamer, 1997
Voices in the Park, 1998
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Willy's Pictures, 2000
The Animal Fair, 2002
The Shape Game, 2003
Into the Forest,  2004
My Mum, 2005
Silly Billy, 2006
Little Beauty, 2008
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