Sheila beckett

Back in the mid fifties, 1954 to be exact, I was rummaging around in an old magazine store one day when I came across a children’s book called “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”. The book measured onl…

Animators often talk about "economy of line"; describing as much as possible with the fewest lines since every line has to be drawn over and over again. Costuming and drapery folds are simplified to the greatest degree since animators put most of their time and effort into drawing the character's face (in animation lingo this is called "knowing where to put your money"). The folds and creases that they do draw must be carefully considered; adding to the believability of the character, not…

Sheilah Beckett's Digital Art - The Six Wives of Henry the VIII is available at Xlibris.com

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses illustrated by Sheilah Beckett (1954)

THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, Illustrations by Sheilah Beckett 1954 © by Simon and Schuster, Inc., and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. Tomie started seeing the work of Sheilah Beckett in CORONET magazine while he was in junior high school. He fell in love with it. He especially loved this double-page spread when he was studying at Pratt. It was as if he was going to the ballet when he looked at this illustration. Tomie wrote Sheilah Beckett a fan letter many years ago. He continued to send…

Big Picture Mother Goose 1957 Original Illustration gently removed from original Illustration Mag

Cleaning my desktop I came across a folder with these five images in it. Sheilah Beckett has done tons of children's book/fairy tale art. These struck me most from the work i could find of hers online. The first three almost look like they could be printed in brown and black only as spot colors but they contain such a lush hue - very different than most of her stuff but her more recent work seems to also capture some of this duotone scale. The other two are semi-erotic and the line-work is…