The Artful Bird - Week 5

 The class is really kicking my ass.  Too much homework.

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MOVING TOWARD FINAL ILLUSTRATION

INSPIRATION FOR FINAL COMPOSITION

Madder Class with Graham Keegan

I had the pleasure of working with Madder and Mordants with Graham Keegan.  It was very fun and I can't wait to study more.

This is Graham Keegan's Studio.

Madder growing outside Graham's studio,

Here are some examples of his work.

This are some of the tools we used.

This is an example of painting with natural dyes on fabric.

Here are some examples of Madder dying with mordants.

These are all the possible colors you can get depending on the mordant.

Here's a page from William Morris's book that inspired Graham's Book.

This is a William Morris carved block. Something to aspire to.

Here are some more of Graham's Designs.

Recipe from Grahams Book.

Our pieces drying by the coffee shop.

The Madder Dye,

Ola by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

I came across this beautiful book at Caring Transitions at work.

Here's the description on Amazon: 

Ola is the enchanting story of a dauntless Norwegian boy who goes skiing one day and has many unusual adventures before returning home. He meets new friends, joins a merry wedding party, encounters a howling dragon, and learns bits of folklore from fishermen in the far north while pulling codfish from the icy waters.

This delightfully illustrated book is at once a true glimpse of life as it once was in Norway and a tribute to Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire’s zest for living.

I never heard of them before but they have a big wikipedia page.

Ingri d'Aulaire (December 27, 1904 – October 24, 1980) and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (September 30, 1898 – May 1, 1986) were writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team, completing almost all of their well-known works together. The couple immigrated to the United States from Europe and worked on books that focused on history such as Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1940 Caldecott Medal. They were part of the group of immigrant artists composed of Feodor Rojankovsky, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans, Miska Petersham and Tibor Gergely, who helped shape the Golden Age of picture books in mid-twentieth-century America.

 

Week 4 - The Artful Bird

Here is my next assignment for The Artful Bird.

I just wanted to be sloppy here and not so studied.

We needed to do some research for the homework.

Here some images I might use for the final project.

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