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Sydney Smith is a Canadian illustrator of children's books. He is the 2024 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his "lasting contribution to children's literature". [ 1 ] He earlier won the 2015 Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration for Sidewalk Flowers , a wordless picture book which he illustrated ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
Ralph Idris Steadman [1] (born 15 May 1936) is a British [2] illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. [3] Steadman is renowned for his satirical political cartoons , social caricatures, and picture books.
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):
He also did some promotional artwork for the sci-fi video game No Man's Sky. [8] Stålenhag uses a Wacom tablet and computer for his work, which is designed to resemble oil painting. [2] [3] Initially, he attempted to use various physical media to mimic a more traditional style, including gouache. Even after switching to digital methods, he has ...
McCaig was born in Santa Monica, California, [4] but spent most of his younger years in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [3] He later moved to Great Britain and attended the Glasgow School of Art, [5] but returned one summer to California to work at Korty Films, where he contributed to Sesame Street cartoons and a trailer for the 1983 animated film Twice Upon a Time.
The work demonstrates the usual characteristics of Wall's cinematographic photography, inspired by street photography and the neorealist cinema. The picture, which was staged in a studio in Vancouver in the winter of 1994, with three actors, depicts a scene of urban violence, taking place at night, where two young men are fighting violently on the floor of a sidewalk, while a third person ...
Christopher Myers (born 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, and playwright. [1] [2] [3] His wide-ranging practice—including tapestries, sculpture, stained glass lightboxes, theater and writing—is rooted in storytelling and artmaking as modes of transformation and cultural exchange.