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Illustration in "Tales of Magic from Around the World"A traditional story from Germany
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Thanks very much
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You are welcome...my pleasure!
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Yep I reckon he'd turn you into something very unpleasant if you so much as looked at him sideways.
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The best stories are those that include a musty old bookstore smelling of mustier older books full of yellowed, crackly paper; a bookstore partially hidden between two ramshackle buildings on a narrow, gloomy alley; with dirty glass and cobwebs in the window front forcing you to peer through it from an inch away to see the ancient antiques and rare books that ultimately lure you inside. Thanks for the reminder
Love the chair with the gargoyle.
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It sounds very much like you have visited a similar bookshop in your dreams that I have visited in mine. My bookshop is a triangular building on the corner of a street. It's an antiquarian childrens book shop, the bookcases are extreamly high, and there is one of those ladders on wheels. If you dare climb to the top of that ladder you will find books illustrated by Dulac and Rackham! These are books which no one else as ever seen!
I actually once found an old umbrella shop in London which from the outside looked very much like the book shop of my dreams. I loved it and wanted to draw it, but I didn't have my sketch book with me. I tried to find the old umbrella shop again on a number of occasions, but I never could. As far as I know that is a true story but it is also true that memories and dreams blur into one another.
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I'm sure that up amongst those books illustrated by Dulac and Rackham will someday be found fairytales by Patience whose drawings equal theirs. And those books may be in a bookstore very much like the one pictured in the first two links below (from the movie, The Neverending Story, which I thought was enchanting). Or take the bookstores in the next two links and add some fog, a tinkling bell in the darkened entrance, the smell of ancient books, and a strange little bookseller with white hair and a voice as old and dusty as his store. There would have to be wondrous things to be found in such a store. The Main Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library kept their old books in an archive in the basement, with very narrow rows of books and bare lightbulbs in the ceiling. It was a wonderful secretive place 
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Thanks Marilyn, it would certainly be nice to think that one or two of my better efforts would stand the test of time.
Thanks also for the taking the trouble to send me the links. Bye the way I think you really should write stories you imagin your bookshops so well.
The bookshop which takes the first prize as far as I'm concerned is The Minster Gate Bookshop in York.It's an antiquarian bookshop on a street called The Shambles which is in itself a great tourist attraction being very ancient.
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I could have spent a fortune in that shop. Just as well I don't live in England now
Happy New Year
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Definitely sounds like my kind of bookshop
AESOP. TRANSLATION BY BERNON JONES, V.S; INTRODUCTION BY CHESTERTON, G.K.; ILLUSTRATED BY RACKHAM, ARTHUR. AesopβS Fables.
London and New York: William Heinemann, 1912. Limited edition, no.964 of 1450, signed by Arthur Rackham, 4to., pp.(4) professional calligraphic presentation leaves,xxx,224, 13 mounted colour plates and 53 b/w illustrations in the text, full pictorial crimson morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf, the illustration to The Fox and the Grapes stamped in gilt on the front cover, et al. GBP 1950.00 [Appr.: EURO 2186 US$ 2975.7 | JP 268745] Book number: 11029
Not that I'm a huge fan of Aesop, but I am a fan of G.K. Chesterton [who wrote the Introduction] and have several of his books. But YOU might be interested; it's signed by Arthur Rackham!! And there's on-line ordering
HARDY, THOMAS. ILLUSTRATED BY VIVIEN GRIBBLE. [SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]. Tess of the DβUrbervilles: A Pure Woman.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1926. Limited edition of 325 copies signed by Thomas Hardy, 4to., pp.xiii,508, 41 b/w wood-engraved plates with additional engravings to chapter headings, et al.
GBP 1750.00 [Appr.: EURO 1962 US$ 2670.5 | JP 241181] Book number: 11098
Hardy is my maiden name, and I always had a small hope that somewhere back in history I might be related to Thomas Hardy, as I very much liked his books. And this book is actually signed by Hardy. Sigh!
And to think they've been selling books at this bookstore since 1580, less than 100 years after America was supposedly "discovered" by Columbus in 1492. Wow!
Thanks so much for the link! I shall do some further browsing.
I hope your new year will be very happy
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I see you have expensive taste, but you mustn't tempt me with signed limited editions. In any case I already carry sufficient gilt on account of my addiction to books. Actually I already have a battered old paperback edition of Aesop as illustrated by Rackham, I think I had better content myself with that
I once visited Hardy's cottage, but I'm afraid he wasn't home at the time. It is very picturesque though.
I hope 2009 will be a great year for you too.
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Very neat. I love the colors and the sense of space.
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I thank you.
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You are welcome.
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Thankingyou most kindly
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Fun and well done perspective. Great colouring too.
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Thanks Jay, I appreciate your comment
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Wonderful piece 
Cheers
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Thanks Manon your opinion is an important one for me. Only if you say nice things of course
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Wow ... thanks so much John, the feeling is very mutual
haha! I will say nice things and try to keep my rude comments to a minimum hehe Frankly, I would be hard pressed to say anything negative. I was admiring one of your recent sketches as well, and can not imagine the time and effort that goes into each piece.
Much respect mon ami
Cheers
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Very nice as usual. I'm sure it was tedious to create all those books in the background, but I assure you it was worth it. The large library really sets the tone here.
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Thanks. As a matter of fact I enjoyed painting all the books. Yes I really am that boring
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Wow. The details are incredible! Your artwork is always wonderful
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Thanks very much.
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The figure of wizards or magicians have always fascinated me. It has to do with the knowledge and the intrinsec magic that follows them around
Very nice mood you have here: the wizard looks stern, but also like a person who liked simple things; like food and a good sleep. Also the background is amazing! 
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Thanks for your comment Javier. As it happens this wizard is not at all nice, but the boy doesn't know that at this point.
I would have liked to have used this illustration on the cover of the book but the publisher felt it was too sinister and chose to use an illustration from one of the other stories.
Yes I love old libraries too, in fact I have dreams about old bookshops. I think I might even give up illustration if I could exchange it for running an antiquarian children's book shop.
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I feel that most libraries and labs have a "sinister" feel... I do not know why we associate it with something dark or obscure. Perhaps it's because knowledge is forbidden? or that tampering with the very foundations of our paradigms is worthy of fear?... it must be something subconcious
Me too!!
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Acrylics and inks
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>< you sir are my hero
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And you are a person of great excellence, magnificence wonderfulnessness and above all very good taste
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AWE thanks >///< and you're amazing because you parle francais
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Seulement un peu Je regrette
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I cheat,I use Google translate.:hanging head in shame:
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haha me too XD i use babble fish XDDDDD
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Wow! This is amazing! 
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Thanks very much your remarks they are very much appreciated. It is an illustration I produced for a book of fairy tales. I didn't have time to put up the information before you commented.
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