Friday, October 30, 2009

Enya - Watermark

Arthur Rackham - The Goose Girl


Pen and ink and watercolour
c. 1900

Arthur Rackham - 'Appy 'Ampstead


Pencil and watercolour
1903

Arthur Rackham - The Sacred Crocodile


Pen and ink and watercolour
1901
illustration to Harry and Herodatus by B. Sidney Woolf

Arthur Rackham - Who Has been eating off my plate ?


Pen and ink and watercolour
1900
illustration to Grimm's The Seven Ravens

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

9 - Official Trailer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoJecu9e7c
(embedding disabled)

Arthur Rackham - The Long Armed Giant


Pen and Ink and Watercolour
1904

Arthur Rackham - Sir Galahad draws the sword from the floating stone


Pen and Ink and Watercolour
1902
illustration to Stories of King Arthur by A. L. Haydon

Arthur Rackham - Common objects at the Seaside


1904
Pen and Ink and Watercolour
originally commissioned for Punch
Rackham said he put at least 4 self-portraits amongst the figures

Arthur Rackham - his younger sister Winifred


aged 17
Watercolour, 1890

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Milk Maid


Arthur Rackham - Jack Sprat and his Wife


1912
Pen and Ink and Watercoloutr
Illustration to Mother Goose

Arthur Rackham - The Witches Meeting


1930's
Pen and Ink and Watercolour

Arthur Rackham - The Old Man and his Grandson


1900
Pen and Ink and Watercolour
in two parts
An illustration to Grimm's fairy tale.

Arthur Rackham - Hawthorne Tree


1922
Frontispiece to Hawthorne's A Wonder Book
this was originally black and white but Rackham later coloured it for sale
Pen and Ink and watercolour

Monday, October 26, 2009

Arthur Rackham - Winter Frolic


1924
produced for the 1924 Christmas issue of Pear's Children's Magazine
Pen and Ink and Watercolour
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You'll have to indulge me as I post a lot of new (or improved) Rackham pictures I have come across.

Arthur Rackham - Windfalls


A better copy than I posted before
1904
Pen and Ink and watercolour

Nic Watts and Sam Banfield - Stanley Bones #2


Chris Mould - Vesuvius Poovius #2


Saturday, October 24, 2009

Dave Eggers: Wild things at heart (article)




The original was Maurice Sendak's vision and the forthcoming film version is largely Spike Jonze's. Now, Dave Eggers has written a novel inspired by the classic children's picture book Where The Wild Things Are. He introduces an extract from it.

Ravi Shankar - Raga Rangeela Piloo

Arthur Rackham - Midsummer Night's Dream illustration


Tea Time


Wake Up


Chapbooks


[Illustration from Banbury chapbook, c. 1800]