"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Seven Swans a-swimming Six Geese a-Laying Five Golden Rings Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree Swans are beautiful but they are non-edible and likely to go mad if you don't have a...
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Six Geese a-Laying Five Golden Rings Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree And we're back with birds. Only the more resilient artists go past day five, therefore we'll change the roster...
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Five Golden Rings Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree At last an actual gift, after all these birds (and I suggest you do some math with this guy). For a...
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree What is this fixation with birds? And why are they calling? On this topic, I encourage you to watch this performance, if you...
Well, Christmas came and went, my Advent Calendar is at an end, I'm endeavoured in the Twelve Days of Christmas and I did some bonus pieces on Disney’s Fantasia, but that doesn’t mean I’ll leave you without your weekly ration of Norse folk tales. The tale...
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree Why are they French? Isn't it Christmas if they're not Faverolles? Couldn't we just have settled for British Hens? Apparently not. Anyway, here's my favorite...
Before Christmas, I wrote something about Kay Nielsen and in that piece I mentioned an old Disney Project that never was: the famed Musicana, a sort of new version of Fantasia that would have had music from around the world. It was a beautiful project...
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree What the heck is a turtle dove? It's a dove, one of the brown ones, but we'll see some of the artists have ideas of their...
You thought I was done? Of course I wasn't done. I've decided to continue showing you beautiful stuff (or at least stuff I think it's beautiful) even after Christmas, but instead of having monographic articles featuring single illustrators I'll be grouping them with themes. As...
Well, it’s around three o’clock on my blog’s clock, which for some reason is set on London time, and we’re approaching the moment when the oldest ladies would fall asleep. I am one of the oldest ladies. But I kept you company so far, and...
