. 
John Anster Fitzgerald (English 1819?-1906)
~ The Wounded Squirrel

.
by Edmund Dulac (French 1882-1953) 

~ Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret)
by Rodolph Stawell
.
Drop-of-Crystal was too busy to speak.
~ Illustration for The Fairies Who Changed Places

.
When one door of happiness closes,
another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

~Helen Keller~
Art by Andrew Wyeth

~Michael Shapcott

The Girl and the Owl by Michael Shapcott
©michaelshapcott

.
Arthur Rackham
.

Pacific Sea- Maid by Tony Diterlizzi

~Pottermore

.
   Sunlight hits the page as I
read in my garden.
(Toni A. Watson)
Art by Vladimir Gusev
HAVE A NICE, SUNNY SUNDAY!!!!

~Beatrix Potter Postcards

 

SOURCE

.
by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868-1928)
~ Butterfly Flower Bowling

.
by John White Alexander
(American 1856-1915) ~ Sunlight

by Franklin Booth (American 1874-1948)
~ Moonrise in a Wood from Scribner’s Magazine

“A man is a very small thing, and the
night is very large and full of wonders.”
~ Lord Dunsany

by Norbert Goeneutte (French 1854-94)
~ Portrait of Anna Goeneutte Wearing a Beret

.
After a long day
a cup of tea, cricket song,
and the scent of books
(Sara V. Nagle)

Rabbit by Duffzilla

Have a Wonderful Weekend!
Through the looking glass
and  
straight down the Rabbit Hole!

~Scott Gustafson

.  
Scott Gustafson’s earliest artistic ambition was
to become an animator. But by the time he entered
high school, he became acquainted with artists
from the Golden Age of Illustration.
Great illustrators like N.C. Wyeth, Normal Rockwell,
Maxfield Parrish and Arthur Rackham opened
a door onto a world of beautiful images that
continue to inspire him to this day.
..
Lingering dreams of making animated films,
however, led Scott to major in animation at
the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
It wasn’t until after leaving art school that the
possibility of a career as a freelance illustrator
began to truly appeal to him.
.
.
Over the nearly twenty-five years that span
his career, he has had the opportunity to fulfill
commissions for a number of varied clients and
publishers such as Celestial Seasonings,
Playboy magazine, Saturday Evening Post,
The Bradford Exchange, Dreamworks and
The Greenwich Workshop.
. . . 
His illustrated books include The Night Before Christmas,
Peter Pan, Nutcracker, as well as two original titles,
Animal Orchestra and Alphabet Soup.
His newest release, Classic Fairy Tales,
was recently awarded a Chesley award for best
interior book illustrations from the Association
of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
..
LINK HERE AND HERE
Artwork © Scott Gustafson
.

by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (English 1836-1912)
~ In The Peristyle

~Thomas Moran

.
Thomas Moran 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
(World’s Columbian Exposition),
watercolor and graphite on moderately thick wove paper,
Brooklyn Museum, NYC, NY.
.

Thomas Moran was an American painter and
printmaker, talented illustrator and exquisite colorist,
one of the premier painters of the American landscape.
The paintings of Moran reveal the scale and the
splendor of the beautiful places he was attracted to.

WILL SOMEONE TAKE ME HERE,
PLEASE?

~Leonora Carrington

1947 Leonora Carrington (Mexican 1917-25 May 2011)
~ The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg)
READ MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST
.

~Raining again…

.
Art by Maria Zeldis
.
I found this very talented artist
on Deviantart.com.

~The Pagemaster

.
I found this lovely book on a fleamarket
Written by David Kirschner and Ernie Contreras.
Illustrated by Jerry Tiritilli
..
About a young boy Richard Tyler, an easily bullied,
nervous wreck of a kid who's an expert
on safety statistics.

He overcomes his obsessive fears
by discovering a love for books in this animated
fantasy adventureund,  His mother and father don't
know how to inspire their son to embrace life boldly.
Barely able to leave the house,
Richard ventures out one day, but he gets lost in a
storm and ends up at a mysterious library.
Inside, he slips, knocks himself unconscious and
finds himself in a cartoon realm where books come to life.
Guided by Adventure, Fantasy and Horror
Tyler experiences the adventures of classic novels
such as Moby Dick and Treasure Island,
and he even meets some famed fictional characters,
such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Through his experiences in the pages of the
legendary books, Richard confronts his phobias and
learns to face life more courageously.
. . .
The Pagemaster is brought to life in a 1994 adventure
fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin,
Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Stewart,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Frank Welker, and Leonard Nimoy.
The film was produced by Turner Pictures and released
by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994.
.

SOURCE

Have a wonderful weekend

and a lovely fathersday!

~Walter Langley

.
Walter Langley
(Birmingham, 1852 - Penzance, 1922)
.
. . .

~Rachel Anderson

.
Her name is Rachel Anderson
She has been fascinated with the world
of fantasy since she was little,
when her parents began reading books to her,
like Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
From then on her imagination was
incurably overactive.
.
.
CLICK HERE to visit her Website
.

Source

Another wonderful painting by
Johanna Harmon

~Johanna Harmon

.
by Johanna Harmon (American 1968-)
~ Bejewelled,
LINK HERE FOR WEBSITE

~Paul César Helleu

  .
1900 Paul César Helleu (1859–1927)
Portrait of Alice Guérin, oil on canvas.
.
Helleu is best known for his portraits of many of
the most famous and beautiful women of his time
including the Duchess of Marlborough,
the Countess of Greffulhe and the Marchesa Casati.

He was commissioned to paint a portrait of a
young woman named Alice Guerin in 1884.
They fell in love, and married two years later
(July 28, 1886). She was undoubtedly his
favourite model. Charming, refined, and graceful,
she helped introduce them to the aristocratic
circles of Paris, where they were popular fixtures.
.

~Watty Piper

The best known incarnation of the story
The Little Engine That Could was written
by "Watty Piper", a pen name of Arnold Munk,
who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk.
.
Arnold Munk was born in Hungary, and as a child,
moved with his family to the United States,
settling in Chicago. Later he moved to New York.
Platt & Munk offices were at 200 Fifth Avenue
till 1957 when Arnold Munk died.
Arnold Munk, used the name Watty Piper as
both an author of children's books and as the
editor of many of the books that
Platt & Munk published.
He personally hired Lois Lenski to illustrate
the book. This retelling of the tale The Pony Engine
appeared in 1930.
The first edition attributes Mabel C. Bragg as
the originating author. However, Mabel C. Bragg,
a school teacher in Boston, Massachusetts,
never claimed to have originated the story.
.
In 1954, Platt & Munk published another version
of The Little Engine That Could, with slightly
revised language and new, more colorful illustrations
by George and Doris Hauman
.

Copyright © Alexander Jansson
Plain Kate by *enigma-astralis

.
"I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything
seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day
and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn