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Showing posts with label fairy tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairy tales. Show all posts

Fashion shoot featuring monsters







"Creature Couture" fashion shoot by Ted Sabarese based on designs by Nick Cave. He also recently posted a series of photographs based on the Emperor's New Clothes fairy tale (NSFW).

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Recipe for Murder: Frightfully Good Food Inspired by Fiction






Recipe for Murder: Frightfully Good Food Inspired by Fiction featuring illustrations by Jean-François Martin:
Thirty-two great hero-villains of literature lure the reader into the kitchen to sample their signature recipes. Estérelle Payany shares to-die-for recipes inspired by scoundrels from popular literature. Each chapter opens with an excerpt from the original story and quirky illustrations by Jean-François Martin featuring the criminal and his recipe. The Big Bad Wolf roasts three little pigs in their blankets while Snow White’s stepmother concocts bewitching caramel apples. The Queen of Hearts orders Alice to eat treacle tart while Long John Silver stocks the galley with sea biscuits. And although Shakespeare’s infamous Brutus can toss his Caesar salad in a mere ten minutes, Dracula’s paprika hendl is best when simmered from dusk until dawn. It is sure to be a duel to the end between Patrick Bateman’s truffled roast beef and Tom Ripley’s Venetian lemon chicken, but both can be paired nicely with a simple white bean salad from East of Eden’s Cathy Ames. This spirited collection drawing from fairy tales, literary classics, and contemporary favorites is as entertaining as the recipes are scrumptious (and harmless!). And with the winning ingredients in Recipe for Murder—famous literary thrillers and authentic home-style recipes—it would be a crime to pass up this diabolically scrumptious book!
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The Story of Harriet and the Matches



The Story of Harriet and the Matches - - an illustration by Danielle Davis based on a German kid's book from 1845.

Here's a bit more by Danielle, designs for the Superhero Challenge 5K, a race in Oklahoma to raise funds to fight cancer:





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Pop-up book featuring several classic fairy tales






Cover, interior pages, and White Rabbit illustration by Benjamin Lacombe for a new pop-up book:
Eight classic tales evoked by a double-page ingenious mechanism, in a wonderful book that combines technical prowess and talent artistique.Retrouvez characters of the most famous stories, Alice, Pinocchio, The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Peter Pan , Little Red Riding Hood, Mrs Butterfly, Thumbelina, directed by Benjamin Lacombe and volume by Jose Pons. A end of the book, a point of view of Jean Perrot, a leading specialist of stories and images of youth, will illuminate the work.
The rabbit stars in this animated trailer for the book:



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Symptoms of a Haunted House (and more) by Byron Eggenschwiler

Scenes from a haunted house, the Wicked Witch, space explorers and more by Byron Eggenschwiler:












There's much more on display at his site, and he participates in this blog. Unfortunately no listings for sale.

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