Today I wanted to showcase two of my favourite illustrators of all time! My Grandmother used to have one of their books and often I would disappear upstairs whenever I went to her house so that I could go and look at it. It was a book of nursery rhymes and absolutely beautifully illustrated. That book is now mine! :)
(my grandmother gave it to me after graduating)
Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone were twin sisters. I think it is amazing how they both worked on the illustrations together, passing them back and forth until they were both pleased with the outcome. I could never imagine working with someone else on a picture and being satisfied with it...
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| I always loved those two little fairies down in the corner here. |
Anyhow, I am lucky that I now have a few more of their books. So I have lots more of their illustrations to look at! And I often do get them out and look at them. I just love the detail and stylization in the pictures. I find them very inspiring.
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| This was my favourite picture in the Nursery Rhyme book. |
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| Nursery Rhymes again. Love the colours! |
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| Couldn't get all this picture in the scanner. Hansel and Gretel |
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| The Water Babies |
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| Peter Pan |
Bye! xox
6 comments:
wow... these are gorgeous!
thank you for sharing these illustrations with us, they are wonderful as can be!
I love their illustrations too! I actually collected a load of old fairy tale books just for the illustrations, but I left them behind at my mum's when I moved out. I'm thinking I might have to reclaim them now...
They are adorable fairies, wonderful illustrations. You can now have a peek at my painting on my blog.
Great post! I absolutely adore their illustrations and collect their books.
I have that same nursery rhyme book, it is almost 40 years old now and still in pretty good condition.
I did a tribute to Anne and Janet on my blog if you're interested. :)
http://flufflepot.com/2012/05/a-tribute-to-janet-and-anne-grahame-johnstone/
Nice to see someone else appreciating their beautiful artwork.
Kim
I replied to your comment over on my blog, but just in case you don't see it, thank you so much for posting this link - so many childhood memories seeing these again! Fabulous!!! I must ask my mum to dig out the books - 'hark, hark the dogs do bark' was another favourite!
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