vintage illustration: w.t. cummings
well well well, another weekend has come and gone. i hope it was a good one for you!
mine was relaxing yet busy at the same time. i like it like that. some things i did: finished clothes shopping for the wedding, applied to renegade craft fair in chicago, sunbathed, made lots of glittery tiny flags to hang around at the wedding, worked on some illustrations for a couple of clients, and went to the gym TWICE. there was lots more, but i don't want to bore you. :)
anyway, this morning i'm smitten with these illustrations from this children's book by w.t. cummings that was published in 1959. what is it about vintage illustrations that is just so charming? i think part of it is that the colors are usually quite limited-- i think i'd love to try working that way more, because i normally use a crazy amount of colors. it would be a good challenge for myself!
i originally saw one of these illustrations over on ffffound, and then clicked through to find this blog post about the book on this super cute blog called doe c doe. definitely worth checking out! in fact, i'm going to add it to my blog roll right now.
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3 comments:
i absolutely love this style of illustration. very 50s... i also like the work of Lalande-Courbet from the same era... he did some of the Jacques Tati french movie posters... love that stuff! see you wednesday!!
Love this! I want to go out and find a copy now! Thanks for sharing, I am such a huge children's book collector/fan. What a good find!
renegade chicago! i was in the midst of my application for that show, and realized that it fell on the same weekend as a show in Toronto I'm in...ah well! It would have been great to meet you.
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