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Elephant Gun

Apr 1, 2016Apr 1, 2016Posted in Cinéma, imagesTagged aquarelle, beirut, drawing, elephant gun, illustration, illustrazione, Music, watercolorLeave a comment

elephant gun

If I was young, I’d flee this town
I’d bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight

Far from home, elephant gun
Let’s take them down one by one
We’ll lay it down, it’s not been found, it’s not around

Let the seasons begin – it rolls right on
Let the seasons begin – take the big king down

And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the night
And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the silence, all that is left is all
that i hide

Beirut

XV. Rudy

Mar 28, 2016Mar 28, 2016Posted in images, LivresTagged aquarelle, Babette, children literature, dessin, drawing, андерсен, андерсенови приказки, fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, illustration, illustrazione, La vierge des neiges, letterature enfants, Rudy, The Ice Maiden, watercolorLeave a comment

“I kissed you, when you were young, kissed you on your mouth! Now I kiss your feet, you are entirely mine!”
He vanished in the clear blue water.
Everything was still; the church bells stopped ringing; the last tones died away with the splendour of the red clouds.
“You are mine!” sounded in the deep. “You are mine!” sounded from on high, from the infinite.
How happy to fly from love to love, from earth to heaven!
A string broke, a cry of grief was heard, the icy kiss of death conquered; the prelude ended; so that the drama of life might commence, discord melted into harmony.

la vierge des glaces

The Ice-Maiden

Hans Christian Andersen

The Old Street Lamp

Mar 25, 2016Mar 30, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, dessin, drawing, андерсен, андерсенови приказки, fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, illustration, illustrazione, letterature enfants, The Old Street Lamp, watercolorLeave a comment

The old man would read aloud about Africa, with its great forests and the wild elephants, while his wife would listen attentively, stealing a glance now and then at the clay elephants which served as flowerpots. “I can almost imagine I am seeing it all,” she said.

Ah! how the lamp wished for a wax taper to be lighted in it, for then the old woman would have seen the smallest detail as clearly as it did itself; the lofty trees, with their thickly[243] entwined branches, the naked negroes on horseback, and whole herds of elephants treading down bamboo thickets with their broad, heavy feet.

stariat ulichen fener

Hans Christian Andersen

OLE-LUK-OIE

Mar 19, 2016Mar 19, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, dessin, drawing, андерсен, андерсенови приказки, fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, illustration, illustrazione, letterature enfants, Ole Ferme-l'œil, watercolor3 Comments

Il est bien habillé, son habit est de soie, mais il est impossible d’en dire la couleur, il semble vert, rouge ou bleu selon qu’il se tourne, il tient un parapluie sous chaque bras, l’un décoré d’images et celui-là il l’ouvre au-dessus des enfants sages qui rêvent alors toute la nuit des histoires ravissantes, et sur l’autre parapluie il n’y a rien. Il l’ouvre au-dessus des enfants méchants, alors ils dorment si lourdement que le matin en s’éveillant ils n’ont rien rêvé du tout.

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Les galoches du bonheur

Mar 13, 2016Mar 13, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, dessin, drawing, андерсен, андерсенови приказки, fairy tales, feés, Hans Christian Andersen, illustration, illustrazione, Les galoches du bonheur, letterature enfants, watercolor2 Comments

Dans une maison à Copenhague, non loin de Kongens Nytorv, s’était réunie chez un chambellan de Sa Majesté une société fort nombreuse et distinguée ; les hôtes avaient engagé tout ce beau monde pour être en retour aussi invités quelquefois (…)

Ce qu’on fit ensuite ne mérite pas non plus d’être raconté ; passons donc dans le vestibule, où se trouvaient les manteaux, les cannes, les galoches des invités. Là se tenaient deux filles, l’une vieille, l’autre jeune ; au premier abord, on aurait supposé que c’étaient des femmes de chambre, venues pour accompagner leurs maîtresses au retour. Mais en les considérant d’un peu plus près, on s’apercevait vite que ce n’étaient pas des domestiques, ni même des personnes ordinaires (…)

Hans Christian Andersen

Ariadne

Mar 10, 2016Mar 10, 2016Posted in Cinéma, LivresTagged Agatha Christie, aquarelle, Ariadne Oliver, british literature, dessin, drawing, Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot, illustration, illustrazione, victorian age, watercolorLeave a comment

ariadne

You like apples, don’t you?” said Joyce. ” I read you did, or perhaps I heard it on the telly.
You’re the one who writes murder stories, aren’t you?”

“Yes”, said Mrs Oliver.

“We ought to hove made you do something connected with murders. Have a murder at the party tonight and make people solve it.”

Hallowe’en Party, Agatha Christie

Un Gian Burrasca

Mar 4, 2016Mar 4, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, dessin, drawing, Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca, illustration, illustrazione, letteratura per bambini, letteratura siciliana, letterature enfants, Vamba, watercolorLeave a comment

Dopo la tempesta viene la calma! Tre giorni fa il cielo era cupo, ora invece è sereno.

La pace è conclusa, l’assedio è levato. Stamani, dal buco della serratura, mi è stato promesso di non darmi più bastonate, e io ho promesso solennemente di ritornare a scuola, di studiare e di esser buono.

Così l’onore è stato salvo … e anche la mobilia e lo specchio grande, perché ho levato la barricata e sono uscito di camera.

Viva la libertà!

Vamba

Devant le chateau de glace

Feb 28, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, corbeau, corvo, dessin, drawing, андерсен, андерсенови приказки, fairy tales, Gerda, Hans Christian Andersen, illustration, illustrazione, kay, la regina della neve, La reine des neiges, letterature enfants, Snow Queen, watercolorLeave a comment

le corbeau

The walls of the palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and doors of cutting winds. There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been formed of snow blown together. The largest of them extended for several miles. They were all lighted up by the vivid light of the aurora, and were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering!

There were no amusements here; not even a little bear’s ball, when the storm might have been the music, and the bears could have danced on their hind legs and shown their good manners. There were no pleasant games of snapdragon, or touch, nor even a gossip over the tea table for the young-lady foxes. Empty, vast, and cold were the halls of the Snow Queen.

Hans Christian Andersen

The Rendez-vous

Feb 25, 2016Posted in LivresTagged Agatha Christie, aquarelle, british literature, british mystery, dessin, drawing, illustration, illustrazione, watercolor2 Comments

conversation

Veronica was waiting for him.
She spoke from the window of the pretentious half-timbered building.

“Come inside, John. (…)”.

The Hollow

Agatha Chistie

Cards on the Table

Feb 20, 2016Feb 20, 2016Posted in LivresTagged Agatha Christie, Anne Meredith, aquarelle, Ariadne Oliver, british literature, british mystery, Cards on the Table, dessin, drawing, Hercule Poirot, illustration, illustrazione, Mr Shaitana, Superintendent Battle, watercolor2 Comments

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There they were well down to it, their faces serious, the bids coming quickly.
“One heart.”
“Pass.”
“Three clubs.”
“Three spades.”
“Four diamonds.”
“Double.”
“Four hearts.”

(…)

And the raised voice was his official voice, so different that all the heads at the
bridge table turned to him, and Anne Meredith’s hand remained poised over an
ace of spades in dummy.
“I’m sorry to tell you all,” he said, “that our host, Mr. Shaitana, is dead.”

Agatha Christie

Nel bosco

Feb 11, 2016Posted in images, LivresTagged aquarelle, ballet, ballet Giselle, balletto, balletto Gisella, dessin, drawing, fairy tales, Giselle, illustration, illustrazione, libretto di Théophile Gautier, libretto giselle, Théophile Gautier, watercolor2 Comments

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“Il fatto è che se tu mi tradissi”, gli dice la ragazza, “sento che ne morirei.” Si porta la mano al cuore, come per dirgli che soffre spesso di quel timore. Loys la rassicura con ardenti carezze.
Lei coglie delle margherite e le sfoglia, per assicurarsi dell’amore di Loys.

Giselle

Dal testo di Théophile Gautier

Faster!

Feb 3, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, british literature, children literature, dessin, drawing, fairy tales, illustration, illustrazione, lewis carroll, littérature enfants, Through the looking-glass, victorian age, watercolorLeave a comment

‘I wonder if all the things move along with us?’ thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, ‘Faster! Don’t try to talk!’

Not that Alice had any idea of doing that. She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried ‘Faster! Faster!’ and dragged her along. ‘Are we nearly there?’ Alice managed to pant out at last.

‘Nearly there!’ the Queen repeated. ‘Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Faster!’ And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice’s ears, and almost blowing her hair off her head, she fancied.

alice pursuing the tree

Through the looking-glass

Lewis Carroll

Poirot receives a letter

Jan 29, 2016Posted in LivresTagged Agatha Christie, aquarelle, british literature, british mystery, crime, dessin, illustration, illustrazione, Poirot, watercolorLeave a comment

“It was a hot, airless morning towards the end of June.
Poirot had a particular routine when opening his morning correspondence.
He picked up each letter, scrutinized it carefully and neatly slit the envelope
open with his papercutter“.
agatha christie

Dumb witness, Agatha Christie

Sherlock Holmes

Jan 21, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, british literature, dessin, drawing, illustration, illustrazione, Sherlock Holmes, the science of deduction, The Sign of the Four, victorian age, watercolor4 Comments

Old London Now, however, we were beginning to come among continuous streets, where laborers and dockmen were already astir, and slatternly women were taking down shutters and brushing door-steps. At the square-topped corner public houses business was just beginning, and rough-looking men were emerging, rubbing their sleeves across their beards after their morning wet.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Alice’s tree

Jan 14, 2016Nov 26, 2017Posted in Ailleurs, LivresTagged Alice's cat, aquarelle, british literature, catterpillar, children literature, dessin, drawing, illustration, illustrazione, letterature enfants, Queen of Hearts, the cat on the tree, victorian age, watercolorLeave a comment

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‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think–‘ (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘–but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?‘ (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke–fancy curtseying as you’re falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) ‘And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’

Nils Holgersson

Jan 6, 2016Jan 7, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, children literature, dessin, drawing, Il viaggio meraviglioso di Nils Holgersson, illustration, illustrazione, Le Merveilleux Voyage de Nils Holgersson, letterature enfants, Nils Holgersson, Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, Selma Lagerlöf, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, watercolor2 Comments

Never had he seen the skies so blue as they were to-day. Birds of passage came on the wing. They came from foreign lands, having travelled over the Baltic Sea, by way of Smygahuk, and were now on their way North. They were of many different kinds; but he was only familiar with the wild geese, who came flying in two long lines, which met at an angle.

nils holgersson

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Selma Lagerlöf

A morning ride

Jan 1, 2016Jan 1, 2016Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, british literature, dessin, drawing, illustration, illustrazione, P. G. Wodehouse, THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT, watercolor2 Comments

l'homme au vélocipède

“It was a lovely morning, and, as I bicycled along, keeping a fatherly eye on Arthur’s activities, I realized for the first time in my life the full meaning of that exquisite phrase of Coleridge:

“Clothing the palpable and familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn,”

for in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful, even Arthur Jukes’ heather-mixture knickerbockers, of which hitherto I had never approved.”

The Clicking Of Cuthbert

P. G. Wodehouse

1922

Humpty Dumpty

Dec 26, 2015Dec 26, 2015Posted in LivresTagged Alice, Alice through the Looking Glass, aquarelle, british literature, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, children literature, dessin, drawing, humpty dumpty, illustration, illustrazione, lewis carroll, Looking Glass, victorian age, watercolorLeave a comment

‘I said you looked like an egg, Sir,’ Alice gently explained. ‘And some eggs are very pretty, you know’ she added, hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.

‘Some people,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual, ‘have no more sense than a baby!’

Alice didn’t know what to say to this: it wasn’t at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to her; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree—so she stood and softly repeated to herself:—

humpty

‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.’

Le pianocktail

Dec 23, 2015Dec 23, 2015Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, Boris Vian, colin, dessin, illustration, illustrazione, l'écume des jours, pianocktail, watercolorLeave a comment

Prendras-tu un apéritif ? demanda Colin. Mon pianocktail est achevé, tu pourrais l’essayer.

– Il marche ? demanda Chick.

– Parfaitement. J’ai eu du mal à le mettre au point, mais le résultat dépasse mes espérances. J’ai obtenu, à partir de la “Black and Tan Fantasy”, un mélange vraiment ahurissant.

L’écume des jours

Поди туда — не знаю куда, принеси то — не знаю что

Dec 16, 2015Posted in LivresTagged aquarelle, dessin, drawing, Андрей-стрелок, Марья-царевна, fairy tales, illustration, illustrazione, russian fairy tale, russian folk tale, watercolor2 Comments

— Ложись спать, утро вечера мудренее.
Андрей лег спать, а Марья-царевна села ткать.
Всю ночь ткала и выткала ковер, какого в целом свете не видывали: на нем все царство расписано, с городами и деревнями, с лесами и нивами, и птицы в небе, и звери на горах, и рыбы в морях; кругом луна и солнце ходят…

idi tam ne znam kyde donesi tova ne znam kakvo

Andrew went to rest while Mary the princess went to weave. She wove all night and wove a carpet the likes of which have been unseen in the entire world: on it was woven the whole kingdom, with cities and villages, with forests and fields, and birds in the sky, and beasts in the mountains, and fishes in the seas; around it were the moon and the sun in the sky.

Tag: illustration

Elephant Gun

XV. Rudy

The Old Street Lamp

OLE-LUK-OIE

Les galoches du bonheur

Ariadne

Un Gian Burrasca

Devant le chateau de glace

The Rendez-vous

Cards on the Table

Nel bosco

Faster!

Poirot receives a letter

Sherlock Holmes

Alice’s tree

Nils Holgersson

A morning ride

Humpty Dumpty

Le pianocktail

Поди туда — не знаю куда, принеси то — не знаю что

Russian Folk Tale