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Day 316: Random Topic Generator again
Oct. 6th, 2012 11:13 pmBecause they're SO random:
eukaryotic organisms
getting a divorce
what are pitches?
hitch-hiking europe
art in magazines
Dutch villages
foot fungus
music semiology
Barack Obama's deceased grandmother
.... wow.
I will change art in magazines to art in book illustration. There is one artist or illustrator whose work I love in illustration, and he worked in line -- or pen and ink sketches with a wash. He was Richard Cuffari, and there is precious little information about him, though I am going to try to add some images of his work. There's not even a Wikipedia article on him, though he illustrated more than 200 books (mostly historical fiction). He died at age 53, in 1978. This is all I could find on him online:
"Richard Cuffari was born on March 2nd, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. Cuffari won numerous awards for his artwork, even as a high school student, but his immigrant parents couldn't do much financially to help him. After serving in the Army during WW2, Cuffari enrolled at Pratt Institute and graduated in 1949. Cuffari began a career as a children's book illustrator in 1966, with his first project, The Wind in the Willows. He went on to illustrate nearly 200 books, specializing in historical and non-fiction books. He was awarded the Society of Illustrators' Citation of Merit and the Christopher Award. Cuffari died in 1978."
I've rarely seen it written WW2. He did a few L'Engle books, but I forgive him for that because I like his style SO MUCH.
This first one is from an excellent YA book by Elizabeth Marie Pope, which references the Child ballad I grew up with about the two daughters of a Lord in the North Country, one of whom drowned the other out of jealousy. That doesn't happen in the story, but there is a whiff of it. The book, a Newbery Medal of Honor winner, is called The Perilous Gard.
The next one is a great (younger) YA book by Betsy Byars about a sort of misfit kid who is dreamy and doesn't do what he's supposed to, and who is addicted to TV and imagining a life that's better than his with his single mother in a run down motel littered with plaster of paris gnome figures. It's called The TV Kid.
And the last one is one I haven't read, but it's his drawing style for sure.
eukaryotic organisms
getting a divorce
what are pitches?
hitch-hiking europe
art in magazines
Dutch villages
foot fungus
music semiology
Barack Obama's deceased grandmother
.... wow.
I will change art in magazines to art in book illustration. There is one artist or illustrator whose work I love in illustration, and he worked in line -- or pen and ink sketches with a wash. He was Richard Cuffari, and there is precious little information about him, though I am going to try to add some images of his work. There's not even a Wikipedia article on him, though he illustrated more than 200 books (mostly historical fiction). He died at age 53, in 1978. This is all I could find on him online:
"Richard Cuffari was born on March 2nd, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. Cuffari won numerous awards for his artwork, even as a high school student, but his immigrant parents couldn't do much financially to help him. After serving in the Army during WW2, Cuffari enrolled at Pratt Institute and graduated in 1949. Cuffari began a career as a children's book illustrator in 1966, with his first project, The Wind in the Willows. He went on to illustrate nearly 200 books, specializing in historical and non-fiction books. He was awarded the Society of Illustrators' Citation of Merit and the Christopher Award. Cuffari died in 1978."
I've rarely seen it written WW2. He did a few L'Engle books, but I forgive him for that because I like his style SO MUCH.
This first one is from an excellent YA book by Elizabeth Marie Pope, which references the Child ballad I grew up with about the two daughters of a Lord in the North Country, one of whom drowned the other out of jealousy. That doesn't happen in the story, but there is a whiff of it. The book, a Newbery Medal of Honor winner, is called The Perilous Gard.
The next one is a great (younger) YA book by Betsy Byars about a sort of misfit kid who is dreamy and doesn't do what he's supposed to, and who is addicted to TV and imagining a life that's better than his with his single mother in a run down motel littered with plaster of paris gnome figures. It's called The TV Kid.
And the last one is one I haven't read, but it's his drawing style for sure.
