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Thank you!
Really hoping this election brings some much needed change to our country and our world.
You're blog has been a great little place to escape to regardless and I appreciate that. :)
Cheers
Election Day
"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness." - Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams) No matter what happens in the US election, it's going to be stressful in the days ahead. Please be kind to each other. Tilly and I send our love to American friends, family members, and ...
I'd probably enjoy reading both of her books, though I do appreciate her sense of needing to do a book for the boys so to speak. It's a shame she was persuaded to not do them together originally. I must have grown up in a different area or era but I've never thought of or heard about any slant against boys being into fairy tales. But I'm sure those things do exist, well clearly they do if that was her experience. I've actually grown more fond of fairy tales as I get older (Only 40 now), and am even thinking of writing and illustrating my own. I have an interesting idea forming at the moment. :) And though I've never been a writer and could do with being more of a reader, I still want to give it a shot and may even try to enter something into the Fairy Tale Review now that I know what that is, thanks to your blog, which I adore by the way.
Cheers. :)
The boys who love fairy tales too
Many of you will be familiar with Kate Bernheimer's fine book Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, originally published in 1998, containing memorable essays by Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, bell hooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon, Joy Williams, and man...
I too live in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and something I realized not long after moving up here as a child from Texas was that the Orca's really mean something to the people who were indigenous to this land. Their symbolism is everywhere and it's no wonder when you get an opportunity to see them in the wild. They are truly quite a sight to see.
Also, the Wild Darkness by Eva Saultis was absolutely beautiful, I could feel the places she was describing.
The language of whales
Marine biologist Eva Saulitis studied killer whales (or orca whales) in the coastal waters of Alaska for over thirty years, while also writing poetry and nonfiction blending nature writing and memoir. The following passage is from her first collection of essays, Leaving Resurrection: "Durin...
These last two posts on Alan and Brian couldn't come at a better time for me. I've been running through a list of favorite artists I made and spending time with each one's work and writing about my feelings toward their work, what it is that attracts me to them and why I like them. Trying to dive a bit deeper than I normal do when I mention something I like about an artist. My hope is that it will not only help me better myself as an artist, but maybe even understand myself a bit more.
These two guys have been a big influence on me for so very long. But in Alan's case, his sketches, his pencil work, for me is what does it. Not to take anything away from his painting, but I am in love with what that man does with a pencil on paper.
For curiosity sake, here is my list of artists I'm going through. :)
Brian Froud
Alan Lee
Yoshitaka Amano
John Bauer
Jeremy Bastion
Seb McKinnon
JMW Turner
Howard Pyle
N.C. Wyeth
James Christensen
The Mythic Art of Alan Lee
"I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth," Alan Lee recalls, "sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same time, with Theseus on the road to Athens. By the time we'd met and disposed of the pine-bending giant Sinis, I'd become completely entranced. Within a few mo...
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