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AnonymousUser-8 AnonymousUser-8

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I loved the Eagle, fabulous drawings in them. Girl and Eagle were seen as wholesome comics in the 1950s. Going back to Barker. I'd loved to have seen her sketchbooks. I wonder where they are. Or were they even kept. 

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I read that she did the pen and ink work first and then used watercolour on top.  She also apparently used gouache and I wonder if that accounts for the softer and sometimes broken lines in places.  Looking more closely at her pen work, it can appear quite sketchy which produces a lovely soft illustrative style.

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 I like them too and often saw them in books when I was little.

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Jenny,  thanks for that info. For my work today I use technical pens, which she would not have had access to. So I suppose she would have used dip pen or fountain pen, both of which can leave quite sketchy lines. I have used both in the past, not very successfully I might add. As for gouache I did not know but I agree with you, it could account for the softness. I know she was fond of pastels as well. It's all so interesting isn't it. I was reading also she said that Kate Greenaway was one of her main influences,  which I can't see really. Maybe she meant technique. I'm so glad you chose her.

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A few more from me to finish…..
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D’oh!

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Sausage fingers!

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I’m liking this artist more and more.  Her style is realist, the flowers, animals and children (apart from their clothing and wings), are all straight representations.  She’s very good at what she does.  She worked through what’s called ‘The Golden Age of Illustration’.  I think she‘s earned her place in that era.  Roughly 1880 to 1930,  brought about vast improvements in printing techniques, when artists could paint pretty much how they wanted, without worrying if the printers could reproduce the work.  The likes of Rackham, Dulac and Heath Robinson.  Great stuff.

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You are so right Lewis. The children's book came into its own around those times with amazing illustrations. I was given a first edition of Rackhams Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) with the full set of illustrations. A lady who my grandmother in Eastbourne used to work for. I must have been about 5 years old. The faeries fascinated me, as did the trees. I wanted to draw like that.....obviously I don't but it's where the pen and ink vibe came from. I still have the book, with my Flower Fairies and many others. 

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I really like her work; it’s gentle and skilful and captures childhood of that time. 
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 Superb artist who’s work I have admired , still have a couple of books that my children and grandchildren have enjoyed, never know one day great grandchildren might enjoy then too, love to be around to see that . Thank you for a more in depth introduction to her work Jenny and for opening the thread up on Sunday . Still have time for some more before tomorrow lunchtime.
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JohnCuno  born in 1957, is an American illustrator whose work in ink and watercolour has been described as covering everything from politics to sex. Cuno grew up in Westfield New Jersey, the family moved to Florida where he attended and graduated from high school, then attended Florida State University in 1975 for a year followed by a year at Colorado Institute for Art . Bio via Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy my selection of his work , so of you may already be aware of his work , I will be surprised if Lew doesn’t know of him .

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