Books &Errol Le Cain &Illustration 10 Sep 2008 07:36 am
A School Bewitched – pt.1
- As you know, I am an enormous fan of Errol Le Cain’s work. I’ve been posting quite a few of his illustrations for children’s books. (You can see the past posts, if you’re interested, here.)
Today, I’m showcasing a book written by Naomi Lewis from a story by E. Nesbit.
The book was adapted to a film on the BBC, narrated by Nigel Havers. She also adapted The Snow Queen which Le Cain illustrated.
The book contains 30 pages, and every page includes an illustration. I’ve decided to break this into two parts since I don’t want to post tiny thumbnails of the pictures.
I’m not highlighting the text; you’ll have to buy the book for that. I am posting all the great illustrations and hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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To be concluded tomorrow
on 10 Sep 2008 at 9:37 am 1.Tim Rauch said …
Outside of your posts, I hadn’t heard of this illustrator. Thanks for sharing, these are some beautiful images, really the height of good illustration. He really packs a lot of story and design into one little space. Very nice.
on 10 Sep 2008 at 9:41 am 2.Michael said …
Just to repeat something that I posted earlier on Errol Le Cain:
Errol was a longtime artist at Dick Williams’ Soho studio. He was the force behind the design and backgrounds of Dick’s feature film, The Cobbler and the Thief.
When I first saw a BBC documentary about Dick’s work in the early 70’s, I was hooked on his films and his ambitions and his love of animation. The shorts I saw by Dick, including Love Me Love Me Love Me, only increased that excitement. In the BBC doc, there Dick talked about Errol LeCain as someone he’d taken under his wing and had him do the brunt of the work on the short film, The Sailor and the Devil. The short clip from this film made me a LeCain fan, and I started collecting his books.
on 16 Sep 2008 at 11:30 pm 3.Denise said …
Hello Michael:
You are now the vehicle for me to know about Errol’s awesome illustrations.Thanks
BTW Do you see Mary Grand Pré’s art for books?
If you didn’t you can see her:
http://www.marygrandpre.com/
(She is known to be the Harry Potter’s illustrator)but she did more commissions for other books.
It just Errol’s style remember me the good art she did.Both are talented and admirable.