1/3/2024 0 Comments Gorey flamingo paintingBut they can also be tricky they’ve been done–and done well–SO MANY TIMES that they can seem exhausted. Approaching fairy-tale re-tellings can be wonderful they’re well-known and loved, you get to draw adults (for a change) in period garb, and the settings are wide open for the magical and weird. I’ve been inspired by this book to try my own re-telling of Rumpelstiltskin. The drawings are simply two colors (black and gold) and perfect. I remembered all the details – the miller’s daughter’s hair braids, the gold straw, the creepy little man dancing around his campfire. Tarcov, and I was overjoyed to learn that Edward Gorey had been the illustrator! I fell in love with it again as an adult. public library, I came across that old favorite version of RUMPELSTILTSKIN from my childhood, which was retold by Edith H. During that time, while poring over picture books at the L.A. I began collecting favorite illustrators to be inspired by, among whom was Edward Gorey, who is probably best known for his cheerful ABC picture book, THE GASHLYCRUMB TINIES, which details the deaths of children (named from A-Z). They just existed - for us kids!įlash forward 20 (or so) years-after moving to Los Angeles, I had the idea to try to get into children’s illustration. At the time, I didn’t understand the concept that books were made by individual artists, so I never paid attention to who might have made them. The story was strange, scary, and had these awesome ink drawings. When I was little, my grandparents had a version of RUMPELSTILTSKIN that I adored.
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