Children's Books..

I picked up a few books on illustration in children's book... I liked an artist Mary Blair's work , She is remembered best for the work she done for Walt Disney. I think her illustrations have flat, interlocking shapes and patterns which give a surreal and almost abstract structure.

These paintings experiment with colour, mode and composition. They are kind of strange, uneasy and eery which is exactly the feeling I get when I read William Allingham's Poem 'The Fairies'- At the start you thing it is a nice poem about fairies and as your continue to read it, its becomes more dark and scary.