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Mary Blair overload

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog (Can I just start calling it the ASIFAHAAPB?) continues asserting its dominance in the field of excellence by posting scans from Mary Blair’s out-of-print Baby’s House. A few months ago they also posted images from Blair’s Little Verses (Part One / Part Two).

And if you’re a fan of Mary Blair’s gorgeous work, then surely you have your copy of The Art And Flair Of Mary Blair : An Appreciation by now, right?

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    No, but I do have Baby’s House. I read it thousands of times to my daughter. She wanted nothing else, night after night after night after…

  • http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane eliane

    No, but I do have Baby’s House. I read it thousands of times to my daughter. She wanted nothing else, night after night after night after…

  • lu

    my question with her style was always “what does she use?” i think this was discussed a little while back, people suggested she used guache? i’ve never used it, i always thought this looked like print separations…

  • lu

    my question with her style was always “what does she use?” i think this was discussed a little while back, people suggested she used guache? i’ve never used it, i always thought this looked like print separations…

  • wry cooter

    Overloading on Mary Blair is impossible.

    Except for The Small World ride, which was designed expressly for that purpose.

  • wry cooter

    Overloading on Mary Blair is impossible.

    Except for The Small World ride, which was designed expressly for that purpose.

  • http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/ Jenny

    I have an original Blair, and she did indeed use gouache.

  • http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/ Jenny

    I have an original Blair, and she did indeed use gouache.

  • http://www.editoon.com/ tone

    Could you imagine if she used Illustrator, you got to marvel at this type of work from the past. Halcyon days they were. Good wealth of ideas for new designers. The colors and shapes are a good lesson from the masters of that time period. Kudos.

  • http://www.editoon.com tone

    Could you imagine if she used Illustrator, you got to marvel at this type of work from the past. Halcyon days they were. Good wealth of ideas for new designers. The colors and shapes are a good lesson from the masters of that time period. Kudos.

  • http://www.calicomonkey.com/ Will

    It looks like her work, or at least Baby’s House, was given out as a primer to all of the designers on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The style is remarkably similar, and that’s a good thing.

  • http://www.calicomonkey.com Will

    It looks like her work, or at least Baby’s House, was given out as a primer to all of the designers on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The style is remarkably similar, and that’s a good thing.

  • http://picturebookillustration.blogspot.com/ julie

    No such thing as overload, even on the The Small World ride

  • http://picturebookillustration.blogspot.com/ julie

    No such thing as overload, even on the The Small World ride

  • http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/the-art-and-flair-of-mary-blair BlogLESS : The Art and Flair of Mary Blair

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