Today rather than spending a tremendous amount of time discussing each image, I am going to briefly showcase the artist and then allow you to enjoy their work.
Though it may be incongruous with the images, to keep the mood light (after all, I don’t want my Book Week posts making anyone cry) I will include various inspiring/funny quotes about books or reading between photos.
Prepare yourselves.
And we’re off.
The first artist in today’s post was a serendipitous discovery courtesy of the recent Friday Favorite darling Anne-Julie Aubry. A visit to her blog not only revealed a tantalizing new Snow White picture (go look), it also introduced me to a new artist that fit in with this already planned post: Su Blackwell.
Much of the work of Su Blackwell certainly fits in with the fairytale and fantasy themes of the Once Upon a Time II Challenge.
The artist herself describes her work:
Enjoy!
The Castle
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
~G. K. Chesterton
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
~C.S. Lewis
Magnolia Tree
“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
~Caroline Gordon
Alice: Through the Looking Glass
“Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.”
~Jack Handy
The Land of Far Beyond, notice the people walking the path?
“We read to know we are not alone.”
~C.S. Lewis
“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
~Franz Kafka
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
~Paul Sweeney
The Beginning of Something
Su Blackwell is an incredibly talented artist, to be sure. Like previous Friday Favorite Thomas Allen (who would fit in quite will with today’s post) her work is as much about the wonderful creations as the way that they are lit and photographed/presented. I am so impressed by her work. You should certainly not be satisfied with these mere morsels. Go and visit her site to see many more examples of her unique vision.
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