The woman who drew Narnia
Aug. 4th, 2008 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI was very sorry to hear, via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calimac, and pnh at Tor.com, of the recent death of Pauline Baynes.
She was the first illustrator whose work (specifically, her drawings of Narnia) I really noticed, and I return to her whenever I want to explain what appeals to me in illustration: the precision of her depictions, the vividness of what are, after all, black and white drawings. When I described my first visit to Seven Stories, I picked out as one of the highlights a set of her paintings of mythical beasts: "Shelob, a dragon, Jabberwocky, in the jewel-bright colours and delicate lines of a Mughal miniature." I would love to see more of her original work.
In that earlier post I also linked to Charlotte Cory's account of her interview with Pauline Baynes, from which I have appropriated the title of this post. It's worth reading (or re-reading).
ETA: Also, viamevennen, Brian Sibley's blog post.
calimac, and pnh at Tor.com, of the recent death of Pauline Baynes.She was the first illustrator whose work (specifically, her drawings of Narnia) I really noticed, and I return to her whenever I want to explain what appeals to me in illustration: the precision of her depictions, the vividness of what are, after all, black and white drawings. When I described my first visit to Seven Stories, I picked out as one of the highlights a set of her paintings of mythical beasts: "Shelob, a dragon, Jabberwocky, in the jewel-bright colours and delicate lines of a Mughal miniature." I would love to see more of her original work.
In that earlier post I also linked to Charlotte Cory's account of her interview with Pauline Baynes, from which I have appropriated the title of this post. It's worth reading (or re-reading).
ETA: Also, via
mevennen, Brian Sibley's blog post.
