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@wniemocy.bsky.social
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Comic artist, tired and batteling all odds.
❗❗I guess this place is 1️⃣8️⃣+❗❗🔴🔞 now.
So please if you are a minor, be responsible ❤
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May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Who is Sheilah Beckett? Only one of the best mid century storybook illustrators, who had an incredibly long and storied career. And I mean *long*— she was still creating art at age 100, when she died literally at her computer, drawing.
An illustration from the Little Golden Book "The 12 Dancing Princesses," showing a group of colorful figures in medieval clothing. They're all couples, each a prince and a princess, ballroom dancing. Overhead is a stylized chandelier with multi colored candles matching the dresses below. A colorful gouache painting of a blonde woman, identifiable as Cinderella based on the pumpkins and white mice clustered around her feet. She's dressed in peasant clothing, picking grapes from an arbor overhead. In the background, a trio of royal pages in uniform and sashes are standing around talking. One of them is holding a purple pillow with a glass slipper on it. An illustration from the Little Golden Books Hansel and Gretel. The titular children are eating at a low table, sitting on cushioned stools. There's a black cat lurking under the tablecloth and an owl sitting on a fruit stand, watching Gretel drink. The witch, a black shawl wrapped over her shoulders, has picked up Hansel's arm to examine it. The cover of the Little Golden Books Snow White and Rose Red. Rose Red, with black hair and a red dress, stands under a blooming cherry tree with a basket under one arm and a red butterfly on the other hand, looking delighted. Snow White, with blonde hair and a blue dress, kneels on the ground feeding a pair of white rabbits out of her hand. Her basket is next to her, filled with carrots and a little brown bird sitting on the edge. In the distant background there is a castle on the hill
December 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM