~Elena Dudina

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A Talanted graphic artist from Spain
Elena Dudina.
Her beautiful artworks are great combination
of magic fantasy and dark emotions.
~LINK HERE TO SEE MORE ~
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~Einar Norelius

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Einar Norelius, born July 20 1900 in Falun ,
died in Bjursås in Falun Municipality of July 14th 1985 ,
was an illustrator and story writer.
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Einar Norelius illustrated in 53 years the
annually published story collection
Among gnomes and trolls .
Throughout the motives of his fairy-tale character
and he could paint the stumps so that they looked
like trolls and hillocks so that they looked like giants .
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Bibliography:
-Tre knepiga troll Three tricky trolls
-Tre trallande troll Three grating of magic
-Tre tropiska troll Three tropical magic .
-Petter och hans fyra getter (1951)
Petter and his four goats (1951) 
- Snigel Blå (1958) Snail Blue (1958) 
- Trollfars sagor (1963)
-Troll Father's tales (1963),
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Here are a few examples of the genius of
Einar Norelius- the 1934
edition of Bland Tomtar Och Troll.…
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~Gustaf Tenggren

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Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970)
He was a Swedish-American illustrator.
He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced
fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures
with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief
illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s,
in what has been called the Golden Age of American
animation, when animated feature films such as
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia,
Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
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Johanna Spyri
Link
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The next morning the sun came out early as bright
as ever, and then Peter appeared with the goats,
and again the two children climbed up together
to the high meadows, and so it went on day after day
till Heidi, passing her life thus among the grass and
flowers, was burnt brown with the sun, and grew so
strong and healthy that nothing ever ailed her.
She was happy too, and lived from day to day
as free and lighthearted as the little birds that make
their home among the green forest trees.
Then the autumn came, and the wind blew louder
and stronger, and the grandfather would say sometimes,
“To-day you must stay at home, Heidi; a sudden
gust of the wind would blow a little thing like you
over the rocks into the valley below in a moment.”
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From the book; Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
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Art by Nelly Tsenova
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~Vintage Magazine Covers

1912 Christian Herald Magazine Cover 
~Amish Couple Turkey
. 1918 Ladies Home Journal Cover  by Philip Boileau
. 1921 Pictorial Review Cover  by Charles Twelvetrees
. 1924 Farmer's Wife Magazine by C.M. Burd ~Santa & Kids
. 1926 American Magazine Cover by Haskell Coffin
. 1927 Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover by Harrison Fisher
.1928 Country Gentleman Cover ~ Man Plays Banjo
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Have a Great Weekend!!!
XXX

~Children on the Beach

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Sally Swatland was born on September 20th, 1946
in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a family that
appreciated the arts; her grandmother was a concert
violinist, her aunt was a talented artist, and her mother
played piano and sang in several choirs.
Drawing was second nature to Sally, and she began
painting when she was just five years old.
Sally Swatland had two sisters who were also encouraged
to study drawing, painting, and anything that
developed creative expression.
Most of Sally Swatland Paintings are focus on children
on beach in impressionism style. In the
early 1970s, Sally approached her local Saks Fifth Avenue
store to inquire about their exhibition space.
She was granted her first show, where she exhibited
a group of flower, landscape and figure paintings.
The results were positive ¨C she sold many
of the works on display.
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“Me réveillant peu à peu, je m’aperçus
que ma femme s’était levé.”

(Translation…

"Waking up slowly, I realized
my wife got up”)

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Illustration from an unidentified
French Sherlock Holmes publication.

~M. L Kirk

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“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?
Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?
I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
But if I’m not the same, the next question is
‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”

by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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