Living inside a Pollock After effects animation

Head Over Heels

The Crumblegiant

A short clip from the latest animation from award winning animator John McCloskey. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award for Short Animation on the 16 January 2008.

Quenting Blake

A modern British illustrator whose distinct style is well known, especially for his work in children's literature....

http://www.quentinblake.com/en/

Ben Shahn

Art, as I saw it one day when I helped hang a National Academy show while I was a student there, was about cows. In those days, early in the twenties, there were many cow paintings. More than that, the cows always stood knee-deep in purple shadows. For the life of me I never learned to see purple where there was no purple -- and I detested cows. I was frankly distressed at the prospects for me as an artist. But there came a time when I stopped painting, stopped in order to evaluate all these doubts. If I couldn't see purple where there was no purple--I wouldn't use it. If I didn't like cows, I wouldn't paint them. What then was I to paint? Slowly I found that I must paint those things that were meaningful to me--that I could honestly paint in the shapes and colors I felt belonged to them. What shall I paint? Stories.

Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a painter, muralist, print-maker, and illustrator. He was best known for his socially and politically informed artwork. He illustrated numerous books of poetry. Ounce Dice Trice is the only book he illustrated that was written specifically for children. Ben Shahn illustrates this notebook of fabulous words: heavy words, squishy words, made up words, names for cats, whales, and houses. Says the author: “All the words here are meant to be said aloud, over and over, for your own delight.” 
http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/childrens/ounce-dice-trice/

Other works....
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ben_Shahn.aspx

Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mere (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners".

Some of his work online;

http://www.readbookonline.net/books/De%20la%20Mare/389/

Bibliography of His Books for Children (Poetry):

_Songs of Childhood._ London 1902.

_A Child's Day: a Book of Rhymes to Pictures by C. W. Cadby._ London 1912.

_Peacock Pie: a Book of Rhymes._ London 1913.

_Down-adown-derry: a Book of Fairy Poems._ London 1922.

_Stuff and Nonsense._ London 1927.

_Poems for Children._ London [1930].

_This Year, Next Year._ London 1937.

'As a revelation of the wonders of the English language, de la Mare's poems for children are quite unrivalled.'                                                                                                                                                                                      W. H. Auden

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in silver feathered sleep A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Edward Lear