~May Ann Licudine

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_{In her kindergarten graduation, May Ann received
her first award, Best in Creative Arts.
She changed her nickname "Mall" when she
was in Grade 4. Because she chose the initial letters
of her full name. She is a visual artist and
freelance illustrator living in La Union, Philippines.
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She is also a painter and has had several
painting exhibits. Her art is inspired by her
own dreams, nightmares, childhood memories,
as well as God, nature, music and other great
artists. She enjoys dreaming, listening to music,
and setting her imagination free into wide colorful skies.
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Once inspiration hits her, May Ann’s paintings
and drawings radiate and overflow with her
emotions. She particularly loves making illustration
of her very own whimsical characters Babu and
Abu the Cat.
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She illustrated her first children's book
“The Yellow Paperclip with Bright Purple Spots”
written by 2005 Grand Prize PBBY-Salanga winner
Nikki Dy-Liacco and published by Adarna House,
the country’s first and largest publisher of Filipino
children’s books. May Ann has also been
commissioned for a music album, paintings, murals, advertisements and others.
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~ LINK TO HER BLOG ~
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http://www.mayannlicudine.com/mall_home.html
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~Alice Vintage Ads!

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~Rolf Lidberg

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A great Scandinavian troll painter
Rolf Lidberg died Februari 2005, 74 years old.
He was an expert of Swedish orchids and guided
many botanical walks in Sweden and also produced
watercolour illustrations of Swedish flora, but is
probably most well-known for his funny trolls that
did more or less the same as people in those parts
of the world, they just lived longer (say 500 years),
in complete harmony with nature and had tails and
longer ears and bigger noses.
His paintings were lighter than John Bauer's,
both in technique and subject-matter,
but the influence is obvious.
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~ 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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