Children's / imaginative Illustrations: June 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Tsushimamire

Just love this - different band but reminds me of Kill Bill.

Emily Gravett - Monkey and Me #2

Emily Gravett - Monkey and Me

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emily-Gravett/e/B001JS1FQA/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Emma Florence Harrison - two pictures

[Sir Galahad]
‘Sir Galahad. / Rise up and look and listen Galahad.’ A Christmas Mystery
Signed and inscribed; pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 9½ × 6¼ ins
Literature: The Early Poems of William Morris, Blackie & Sons Ltd, Glasgow 1914, p. 36.

[A Dream of Fair Home]
Signed and inscribed; pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 9½ × 6¼ ins
Literature: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Guinevere and other Poems, Blackie & Sons Ltd,
Glasgow 1911, p. 146

Florence Harrison (as she was called) was a writer, poet and artist. She worked in a
distinctive late Pre-Raphaelite style showing the influence of both Rossetti and Burne-Jones. She is chiefly remembered for her work as an illustrator particularly for the books she did for Blackie and Son, Ltd in Glasgow, although she also illustrated her own poetry. She chose to illustrate works of a romantic nature that suited her style, these included Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Her ownverse is said to have a magical quality that appealed to all ages. Her work was included at The Last Romantics Exhibition at The Barbican Art Gallery in 1989.

Emma Florence Harrison - St Cecilia – The Palace of Art

fl. 1877–1925

Signed with monogram & inscribed; watercolour & bodycolour heightened with white, 9½ × 6⅜ ins

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love

Axel Scheffler - Tiddler #2

Axel Scheffler - Tiddler

by Julia Donaldson (Author) and Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiddler-Julia-Donaldson/dp/0439943779

Arthur Rackham - illus to Christmas Carol

signed l.l.; Arthur Rackham
pen and ink with watercolour over pencil
23 by 16cm., 9 by 6¼in.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, published by William Heinemann, 1915

Hilde Hechle - A Moonlight Phantasy

signed l.l.: Hilda Hechle; signed, inscribed with the artist's address and titled on the reverse
watercolour
29 by 37.5cm., 11½ by 14¾in.

1902-1938

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Avril Lavigne - Innocence

Anna Vojtech

http://www.avojtech.com/

Ginger Nielson

http://www.gingernielson.com/portfolionew

Teresa Murfin - Animal Soup #4

Teresa Murfin - Animal Soup #3

Friday, June 25, 2010

Glatonbury 2010

About 20 miles from me, but unfortunately I can't hear the great music.
I can't travel far at the moment but I do look in on the High Street (quiet at this time of year as everyone is a few miles away in Pilton)

http://www.checkitlive.com/camera/glastonburytownhall.html

or for the Festival:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/webcam/

http://glastonburyfestivalwebcam.mrjake.net/

or live streaming
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/

Foo Fighters - Times Like These (acoustic)

Arthur Rackham - Young Beckie

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rackham-SomeBritishBallads//pages/010-Young-Beckie/

Mickey Mouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse

David and Ronda Armitage - The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch #4

David and Ronda Armitage - The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch #3

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Civil War

(Slash / McKagan / Rose)
Special Thanks Niven / James

"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men." *

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer" **

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway