This was great, Zoungy! And good luck at the workshop tomorrow, I hope you have a good time with gouache and invoking the creative spirit of Mary Blair. I don’t know if I mentioned it before but you may like the Illustration Department Podcast and Substack (maybe Patreon too?). @illustrationdept
Thank you Diane. I follow Illustration Dept and have enjoyed the articles they publish! Have you seen the YouTube channel Children of the Craft? She has several Mary Blair videos you may enjoy.
Wow, this sounds so interesting (both the artist and your workshop. I wonder if you'll do it again, I can't attend this session, but I'd love to participate...) I recently read a book called The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt that covered the role of women artists in the Disney world. I will need to go back and read it again to see what it says of Mary Blair. And...the illustration you showed from a children's book in 1964, at that time I was just learning to read in 1st grade, and this illustration reminds me of so many of the books from that time - I wonder if I read a Mary Blair illustrated book? Anyway, this was a familiar style to me from that time.
Claudia, how cool would that be? I want to check my children’s books to see if I have any Mary Blair illustrations hidden away. It’s happened to me before with illustrations by other artists of that era like Retta Scott—who is covered in Queens of Animation which I also enjoyed reading!! Mary Blair is mentioned throughout that book if I recall. She created such beauty but had a troubled home life (I think she, her husband, and at least one child suffered from addiction issues). I may have to read Queens of Animation again.
I just ordered the Queens of Animation book from the library. I thought I remembered Mary Blair but there were quite a few compelling stories in the book so I was not sure.
This sounds like a great opportunity to work with you and concentrate on gouache painting Zoungy. I’m sorry to have to miss it as I have family visiting this weekend.
Enjoy your family time Linda! And yes, a Mary Blair lesson is a great opportunity to focus on spontaneous uses of gouache, on playful design and bold color choices😊
This was great, Zoungy! And good luck at the workshop tomorrow, I hope you have a good time with gouache and invoking the creative spirit of Mary Blair. I don’t know if I mentioned it before but you may like the Illustration Department Podcast and Substack (maybe Patreon too?). @illustrationdept
Thank you Diane. I follow Illustration Dept and have enjoyed the articles they publish! Have you seen the YouTube channel Children of the Craft? She has several Mary Blair videos you may enjoy.
Fly Larry Air to take the course on Mary Blair.
Wish I could join and look forward to seeing some of the work!
And I wish you could join! How cool would that be, you and me in art class again????
I would fly Larry Air to take a course on Mary Blair any day!
Wow, this sounds so interesting (both the artist and your workshop. I wonder if you'll do it again, I can't attend this session, but I'd love to participate...) I recently read a book called The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt that covered the role of women artists in the Disney world. I will need to go back and read it again to see what it says of Mary Blair. And...the illustration you showed from a children's book in 1964, at that time I was just learning to read in 1st grade, and this illustration reminds me of so many of the books from that time - I wonder if I read a Mary Blair illustrated book? Anyway, this was a familiar style to me from that time.
Claudia, how cool would that be? I want to check my children’s books to see if I have any Mary Blair illustrations hidden away. It’s happened to me before with illustrations by other artists of that era like Retta Scott—who is covered in Queens of Animation which I also enjoyed reading!! Mary Blair is mentioned throughout that book if I recall. She created such beauty but had a troubled home life (I think she, her husband, and at least one child suffered from addiction issues). I may have to read Queens of Animation again.
I just ordered the Queens of Animation book from the library. I thought I remembered Mary Blair but there were quite a few compelling stories in the book so I was not sure.
This sounds like a great opportunity to work with you and concentrate on gouache painting Zoungy. I’m sorry to have to miss it as I have family visiting this weekend.
Enjoy your family time Linda! And yes, a Mary Blair lesson is a great opportunity to focus on spontaneous uses of gouache, on playful design and bold color choices😊