~ Iwona Chmielewska

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Iwona is a writer, designer and illustrator from Poland,
but apparently she is best known and loved in Korea.
READ MORE (in Polish)
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~Alice

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by Cathy Delanssay

~Quote

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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as
blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as
crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep,
indeed,
that no cable could fathom it:
many church steeples, piled one upon another,
would not reach from the ground beneath to the
surface of the water above.
There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

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by Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid
Illustration by Edmund Dulac
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The Magic Mirror by Helen Jacobs

(1880 - 1970, UK)

~Kasie Sallee

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Her name is Kasie Sallee,
She lives in Oklahoma, USA

You can visit Kasie’s  BLOG  HERE
Read more about the artist
on her WEBSITE!
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~Antonio Javier Caparo

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Antonio Caparo is a Cuban born illustrator
currently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

Caparo studied graphic design at the High Institute
of Design in Havana and devoted much of his early
career to design, but gradually sifted
his focus to illustration. MORE HERE...
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CLICK HERE to visit his Lovely Blog
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by Edmund Dulac, 1906
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E was an exquisite Elf
Who enjoyed being quite by herself
She delighted to play
In an elegant way
With things she found on a shelf.

~Sue Halstenberg

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Sue Halstenberg began her career as a fashion
illustrator for the Southern California
department stores. To further expand her
creative abilities as a fine artist,
she studied plein air figure painting in pastels with
George Carlson at Scottsdale Artists School in
Arizona. A few years later she started her own
business, accepting commissions for portrait
and figure paintings.
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Above you see her pastel painting “Victoria” 
It was featured
on the cover of American Artist Magazine and
Sue was juried in as a Signature Member of
the Pastel Society of America, New York.
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LINK!
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by Carl Vilhelm Holsoe
(Danish artist, 1863-1935)

~Sunday Poem!

Breeze in a winter night
Breeze whispers invites
With flurries banter in winter
Drip drops to surface so pure
Snow flakes as sprinkled
From the heavens lure
Glides smoothly from the air
With breeze whispers heard

Whisper and whisper so sharp
To Douglas fir humming like harp
Like music in harmony
As if singing to poets prey

True poets with such creativity
Wind whispers put into words
Note for note lyrics composed
Into winter song accord

A winter song in starry night
Heard so loud and bright
Harmony up in the air
Heard by nature in slumber
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Oh, winter song in starry night
In blue moon delight
Like cantata in harmony
As if orchestra in symphony
To the lovers dream
As moonface smile beams


~ by Ency Bearis
Illustration by Lisa Evans

~Joanna Sierko

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Joanna Sierko Filipowska
was born February 13, 1960  in Bialystok, Poland
LINK  to her Website!
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Amazing Fairy-Tale-Like-Paintings.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.

by Lewis Carroll
Illustration by Gustaf Tenggren.
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~Maria Pia Franzoni

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1902 – ?, She was Born in Italy
LINK HERE! for more
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Source
by Elenore Abbott

~Peter Jackson

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by Peter Jackson (1922 – 2003, English)
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~Clever Hans

J. Lawson, Clever Hans, 1880
READ THE STORY HERE
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Ludmila Jiřincová, illustration from Swan Lake, 1970
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Swan Lake is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,

composed 1875–1876.
The scenario, initially in four acts,
by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser
was fashioned from Russian folk tales.
It tells the story of Odette, a princess turned
into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

~Winter

 

I Wish you all a Happy


and a Magical New Year!
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 Richard Scarry, I am a Bunny (1963)
. Renata Liwska, Holiday surprise
Renata Liwska's Blog
and WEBSITE
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