fairy tattoo - need artwork
Bret Foreman
eva piccininni (picc...@ucs.orst.edu) wrote:
: hello all,
: i have been planning to get some tattooing done this summer before i
: leave for england. right now i only have a camellia and a small classic
: eeyore...not much but they both mean something to me.
: i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
: some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
: section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
: AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
: find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
: examples. thanks for your help!
: -> eva
You might check out the Walt Disney Tinkerbell drawings at your local
library. Very nice detail. Plus an added bonus - you'll have a "classic".
Bret
Emily Breed
In article <4vcpun$m...@news.orst.edu>,
eva piccininni <picc...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
>i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
>some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
>section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
>AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
>find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
>examples. thanks for your help!
There are some nice, fairly classical fairy images reproduced in an essay
on an early 20th-century "fairy photos" hoax. It's in the book
_Flim-Flam!_ by James (The Amazing) Randi - which is worth reading even if
you aren't looking for artwork. :-)
Emily Breed emi...@best.com
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Brian Rogers
Bret Foreman (for...@eclair.eecs.berkeley.edu) wrote:: : i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
: : some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
: : section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
: : AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
: : find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
: : examples. thanks for your help!
: You might check out the Walt Disney Tinkerbell drawings at your local
: library. Very nice detail. Plus an added bonus - you'll have a "classic".
I was in my friendly neighborhood Borders Books and Music this past
weekend, and I saw a rather interesting book about fairies. It was on a
humor table, but didn't look like the rest of the cartoony humor books.
It actually looked like more of a children's book, with pastel colors, and
even a puffy padded binding, so it stood out enough for me to do a double
take. The title was something like _Splatting_Fairies_, and all it was
was a bunch of hilarious drawings of fairies that looked as if they were
squooshed between the pages interspersed with some hand written rants that
I didn't read. I was amused. They were smashed into all sorts of strange
contorsions (some rather revealing), and many had facial expressions that
ran the gamut from appathetic to surprised to maniacal. If you would like
to look at something a little less classic, or are up for a good chuckle,
check it out. At the time, it crossed my mind that they would make
someone a good tat, or at least influence one. Good luck.
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Marcus Daley
: i have been planning to get some tattooing done this summer before i
: leave for england. right now i only have a camellia and a small classic
: eeyore...not much but they both mean something to me.
: i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
: some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
: section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
: AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
: find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
: examples. thanks for your help!
: -> eva
Check out some of the Irish/Germanic/Celtic references to fairies that
havent been turned into cute little Disney characters.
Marcus
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Deeg
: i have been planning to get some tattooing done this summer before i
: leave for england. right now i only have a camellia and a small classic
: eeyore...not much but they both mean something to me.
: i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
: some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
: section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
: AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
: find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
: examples. thanks for your help!
: -> eva
The book you want is _Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book_. It is a
wonderful not-your-run-of-the-mill book of fairies. Actually it is
something of a fictional diary with pressed fairies (think of pressed
flowers with a rather more fauna-like visage). I'm sure there are
dozens of pictures within the text that would do wonderfully for small
or larger tatoos, and thank you for the idea. I was trying to think
of an idea for my first tat that was not too cliche, and a pressed
fairy would be great.
*peace, strength and black ink*
Deeg
anna....@eng.ox.ac.uk
picc...@ucs.orst.edu (eva piccininni) wrote:
>
>i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
>some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
>section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
>AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
>find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
>examples. thanks for your help!
Try Arthur Rackham, who was an illustrator towards the end of the last
century. Among other things he illustrated Grimm's Fairy tales (I think
the publisher was Dent), and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. If I
remember rightly his fairies are very sweet - almost twee - but one quote
I found said of him "the unmistakable, neo-gothic style of Arthur
Rackham"
I've seen a book about his work as an illustrator, but not recently so I
can't remember the title - possibly _Flower Fairies_ or something like
that. You might find it in the Victorian Art section of a bookshop, or
in the illustrator section of a specialist art bookshop; but general
books about Victorian illustrations should carry at least one or two of
his pictures.
Looking for the refs. to answer this thread gave me the idea for another
tat [my third], so thank you for that! [no, it won't have fairies!]
Anna B.
anna....@eng.ox.ac.uk
Claire Damon
>In article <4vcpun$m...@news.orst.edu>,
>eva piccininni <picc...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
>>i'm going to get some companions for eeyore; but i have also wanted for
>>some time to get a fairy. i spent some time looking in the fantasy art
>>section of a huge local bookstore, but all i found was sword-and-sorcerer
>>AD&D type stuff. could anyone point me in theright direction? i want to
>>find a few different pieces that i can show to my tattoo artist as
>>examples. thanks for your help!
A roommate of mine used to collect an older set of books: The Blue Fairy
Book, the Brown Fairy Book, the Yellow ... you get the point. I never read
them, but remember thinking the illustrations were lovely. Or try some older
copies of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Of course, for all-out loveliness, there's
anything by Tasha Tudor. I can't think of any fairies that she illustrated
off-hand, but I'm sure there's one somewhere.
Try a library - they'll have older children's books.
--Claire
Judith Cookson Grunberger
In article <84081772...@manatee.envirolink.org>,
Claire Damon <cda...@envirolink.org> wrote:
>A roommate of mine used to collect an older set of books: The Blue Fairy
>Book, the Brown Fairy Book, the Yellow ... you get the point. I never read
>them, but remember thinking the illustrations were lovely. Or try some older
Ohhhhh, I have all twelve. Wonderful books. I used to spend as much time
looking at the illutrations as I did reading the stories. They *do* sort
of run to the very traditional "stunningly beautiful white female
princess with long hair and flowey dress" type, though.
I've never found the Fairy Books in the library; I think I had to order
most of them from the publisher, but I remember finding some at a used
book store and at another hole-in-the-wall bookstore.
They're edited by Andrew Lang, FWIW.
Judy, still trying to decide about exatcly what she wants inked on her
body... such a big decision (been thinking for a year, still can't
decide!)
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Nikki
a few more places you may want to check out are these tiny little books
illustrated by cicely mary barker...she has a series of 'flower fairies'
books like 'flower fairies of the trees', 'flower fairies of the
winter', 'flower fairy alphabet', and a few others... the artwork is
really beautiful.
pax!
nikki
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