Gustav-Adolf Mossa - Sainte Ursule

Franklin Booth, illustration for "The Flying Islands of the Night"

Story World - Christmas Tales

I learned about a new thing today: Storyworld Christmas Tales... these are cards with an illustration and then some words to make kids think and spin a tale...

I especially love Maggie Kneen's art.

Here's some more of Debra McFarlane's cards and here's some of Tomislav Tomic's

Phoebe Anna Traquair; The Victory

Martín La Spina - Giovanna Tornabuoni together with Chameleons

Domenico Ghirlandaio's original Giovanna Tornabuoni

The Fairy Woods by Henry Meynell Rheam

Sleeping Beauty by Nadezhda Illarionova

P.J.Lynch - Illustration to Snow White

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Scott Gustafson

Vittorio Zecchin

Today I learned about this guy. "Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) was a painter, graphic designer, designer of glass, furniture and ceramics."

Read more:
Vittorio Zecchin at Murano
Bel's Nook: Vittorio Zecchin
A Polar Bear's Tale: Vittorio Zecchin
The Blue Lantern: Vittorio Zecchin & Stile Liberty

Xi Pan - In Bloom

Jacek Malczewski - In The Dust Storm

"In the moonlight", Olena Skytsiuk

Petrykivka is traditional Ukrainian folklore painting style. Olena Skytsiuk is especially amazing with this style... it reminds me of Klaus Haapaniemi, so I'd say he's very influences by the Slavic folklore.

Kikka Nyrén

Kikka Nyrén, a Finnish naivist. I love her work. Here's her homepage, in Finnish.

Christian Waller: Morgan le Fay

Valerie Greeley; Twilight Fox

Scott Gustafson: Frog Prince

James Jean

Homepage
More James Jean
James Jean at Arte
The Little Chimp Society; interview with James Jean

This guy manages to combine a lot of things I appreciate in art; the classic Fin de Siécle illustrations; Japanese tattoos, Oriental art, Vargas girls...

Shaun Tan; The Place of Nests

Lindsey Carr: Rooster

Joseph Stella: The Virgin

Ikenaga Yasunari

Lady in the Garden by Edmund Dulac

Framed painting, gouache, gold and silver paint on paper laid on board, Lady in the Garden,
signed and dated lower left, Edmund Dulac '17, (French, British, 1882-1953),
sight: 17"h, 12.5"w

Star Portraits with Rolf Harris, Series Three

Barbara Windsor

by Felicity Gill, Emma Knowles and Tom Wood

Kelly Holmes

  by Glynis Barnes-Mellish, Emily Porter-Salmon and Paul Wright

Bill Oddie

by Mark Roscoe, Rupert Bathurst and Lorna May Wadsworth

Star Portraits with Rolf Harris, Series Two

Cilla Black

 by Fergus Mayhew, Belinda Eaton and Peregrine Heathcote

Adrian Edmondson

 by Bill Mundy, Morgan Penn and Nicholas Archer

Marjorie 'Mo' Mowlam

 by Aine Divine, Robbie Stuart and Rob Beckett

(If that link to Rob Beckett doesn't work, try this)

Richard Wilson

by Charlie Wells, Clare Shenstone and Richard Brazier

- I adore that Clare Shenstone piece...

I am not sure about Charlie Wells... His old homepage says: "Charlie Wells aka Sebastian Rivett", so I assume the graffiti artist Sebastian Rivett is this Charlie Wells.

Star Portraits with Rolf Harris, Series One

One of my favorite programs is BBC's Star Portraits. I have wanted to be a portrait painter for a very long time... I suppose since I first realized that there is such a job :-D

I have been trying to find a good page with samples of all the portraits and links to the artists, and today I found one...
Unfortunately, BBC doesn't see it necessary to upkeep the site, so it's down. This is why I have chosen to replicate it, and also add the rest of the information, as the site ends with season 2.

Series One

Michael Parkinson

by artists Amanda Danicic, Sherree Valentine-Daines and Robin Elvin

Charlie Dimmock

by Martyn Baldwin, Alfred Daniels and Wei Li Zhu

David Dickinson

by Andy James, Binny Mathews, and Rebecca Driffield

Meera Syal

by Maggie Milne, Kim Beer (Hart), and John Raynes