@@petebeard Kersey has been used as a filming location on a number of occasions from the film 'Singleton's Pluck' - A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market - to an episode of the Margery Allingham's detective Campion, with Peter Davison and Brian Glover, based on her novel 'Look To The Lady' to the backdrop of some Compare the Meerkat commercials. It's also been somewhat of a pretty village tourist attraction. I was brought up and live in this area within a couple of miles, hence instant recognition! The Meerkat commercial uses exactly the same view. Another artist who has views of Kersey amongst his works was Suffolk artist Leonard Squirrell. Another well known local family name.
Hello again and it seems you are far from alone in that regard. Over here he meant nothing - and neither did Little Golden. We had plenty of homegrown equivalents though.
Dear Peter I'm very impressed by the quality of your videos, and I realise the enormous amount of work you have to do for each episode: iconographic and biographical research, editing, writing very well researched and concise texts, bravo! Well done! And thank you! Because you are creating something that didn't exist before you, and which is very useful to anyone interested in visual creation: from the simple art lover, to the graphic design student and visual arts professionals. You have created the first visual encyclopaedia devoted to illustrators. I'm sure that, in time, your work will become The International Reference Museum of Illustration. You are doing a very useful job. Merci !
Hello and to say I'm grateful for your appreciation would be a major understatement. I'm pleased to say that quite a few viewers seem to enjoy and understand what I'm attempting to achieve with the channel, but your comment stands out as one of the most definitive.I really do value your support.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. I think that's true of many - we remember the pictures but not always who created them. As a kid that means nothing.
Another good one, Pete. Excellent. I was aware of Battaglia as a Disney artist, but not as an illustrator. Thanks for introducing his work in this area to me. Batsford has some lovely pieces that caught my eye there, too.
Hello again and thanks as usual. I must admit I found it more than usually frustrating that my useless sources would not provide any actual evidence of what he actually produced at Disney. Such is life...
Brilliant illustrators gathered together in another gem from Mr. Beard with thanks from an appreciative viewer in the colonies. Cheers, from New Westminster, British Columbia.
@@petebeard To be honest I'm not familiar with his illustrations either. I recognize only that one book and I had and seen a lot of illustrated books as a kid here in Poland in 80's.
Wonderful to have so much information on illustrators I've not heard of before. So much talent, largely forgotten. Thank you Pete for your rediscoveries.
Mr. Beard, I thoroughly enjoy your channel! I promote it to my friends whenever possible. A request! Please consider doing a video on The Art of Sherlock Holmes. Since 1891 his adventures have been illustrated by the likes of Sidney and Walter Paget, Frank Wiles, Frederic Dorr Steele, and many comic book artists, movie poster artists, professional illustrators, and motion picture animators--including Walt Disney Studios! A tribute to the Art of Sherlock Holmes would be an elementary chapter to cover in your history of illustration videos. Thank you. Thank you for everything! :)
Hello to you and many thanks for your appreciation and for spreading the word about the channel. Thanks also for the suggestion, and it's not one I had previously considered. But you have arousd my curiosity and I will investigate. If there's a video to be had i will make one, but please don't hold your breath - there is a very long list of others that are works in progress so it may take a while. But I'm very grateful for the idea and will see what I can excavate.
@@petebeard Thank you! Online resources to help you would be the Camden House/Ignis Art site for the complete Sidney Paget Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. Also, the Gutenberg AU (Australia) Roy Glanshan Library offers the complete online Holmes, illustrated by Paget AND many other international illustrators. TH-cam won't allow me to post their direct links but if you'd google those, you'd find them. Thanks again. Peace!
Goodness, there are some stunning illustration pieces here. Charming work for children's books. And some of the travel posters, composition and colouring simply beautiful. I do wish we could see such lovely quality nowadays. Thank you for bringing more treasures to light to inspire and educate us. Your work is so much appreciated.
Hello and my gratitude for your ongoing appreciation of the channel, and the featured illustrators. It seems to me the problem isn't so much a lack of talent among contemporary illustrators, more a lack of opportunity since so many avenues ( posters spring to mind ) are dominated by the use of photography. Sad but some call it progress, and don't get me started on AI...
You are obviously the owner of a magic top hat, from which you draw the most amazing examples of illustrators and their work - Battaglia, appealing and charming, Cook Batsford, effortlessly changing styles, Garamond whose modernistic output held least attraction for me until I saw the travel posters and was spellbound, and lastly Srokowski with bright and rather unusual illustrations. Once again, a lovely foursome of artists - thank you
I just can tell that i'm really happy to repeat myself again and again : fantastic work! Thanks to you for introducing us to this wonderful world of the illustrators !
Part of what I enjoy is the time frames against which art /illustration were moving. The wars, depression, personal moves, et al, fascinate me as do the various styles and techniques and technology. Bravo! As Usual!!
Hello again and thanks again. And I agree with your comment - it never occurred to me when I started making these videos that I would be touching so frequently on the wider societal issues revealed in the lives and work of those featured. An unexpected bonus, I think.
- Garamond? Of course I know him - everyone does. At least everyone with at least minimal interest in the history of typography. - No, not that Garamond. Not Claude, but Jacques-Nathan. - ???????????? Thanks, Pete! Especially for Jacques-Nathan Garamond’s name - I’ve never heard of him before and his posters are awesome. He sure deserves to be remembered no less than his great namesake.
Hello agan and I'm pleased to have introduced you to this garamond. I must admit I wondered if he added the name as a tribute to the typo man, but my sources would not give any clue.
It is always a delight when you post. I paricularly admire the work og Brian Cook Batsford. The artwork of Aurelius Battaglia reminds me of the styrle prevalent in some of my childhood books. Keep up the good work. Only three more to go to reach the magic 100.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. I like batsford's work too, but I'm baffled why he used such an arcane print process when everyone else was pretty much taking the easier route of offset litho.
The gap by Aurelius Battaglia from 41 to 47 will probably covered by enlistment in the US armed forces. As education goes this is by far the best I've ever had. And I get to drink coffee as well. They wouldn't allow that at school.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. And I must admit it didn't occur to me that the absence of work in the early 40s might be due to the war. It makes sense.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Being British and growing up on british books I had no previous idea of his existence. I really like his modernist style.
Yes! I enjoyed it immensely! I actually have one of the Battaglia music books but didn't know about his Disney work. And I've seen, if not actual reproductions of Batsford's work on book covers, ones done in his style! This series is wonderful!
Hello again and thanks as usual. Unfortunately what little information I could find about him didn't provide any actual example of work he had done. I would have liked to know more.
Hello and thanks a lot. The illustrators are listed in order in the description box and if you hover over the timeline the chapters put in by youtube show when one ends and another begins.
@@michaelguerrieri3486 Hello again, and you obviously missed it but I already replied to your previous request. Unfortunately however much i admire his work his isn't eligible as he isn't dead. Sorry.
those thick line illustrations really resemble xylography inkprinting! I wonder if it was just stylistic or if he used xylography to make the black outlines? Lovely video, Pete! Love the artists you mention!
Hello and thanks for the favourable comment. They do rather resemble woodblock work, but I would doubt that they really were. Or at least it would be highly unlikely for any mainstream kid's book publisher at the time to go any other way than full colour offset litho. But as I say, I have no proof of it.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit I have had comments from the younger generations complaining that the pictures aren't very big on their phones.
I'm First! Yay, First at something, finally. ;) EDIT: These were great, Pete. Thanks! It was nice to see you moving onto somewhat more contemporary artists, at least to us old folks. ;)
Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed it. If it gets decent views I'll make another on similar lines. There are still plenty of later candidates to choose from.
Love the series and the music... sadly, the music makes it all but impossible to hear your voice clearly except on rare occasions when the pianist toned it down. I'm sure your commentary was mastterful, just couldn't make most of it out.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm sorry about the music interfering with the narration but viewer feedback strongly suggests you are in a minority and most actually find it works. My best suggestion is that you simply turn on the subtitles and then there's no doubt what I'm prattling on about.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Warwick Goble has featured in unsung heroes 22, and if it helps, when I upload part 100 I'll also add a complete list of those fearured so far and where they can be found.
Your videos should be required viewing for graphic design and illustration students. All of these artists are new to me. To state that they are of interest to me is a huge understatement. I could not help but notice one of the artist had an influence on Saul Bass.
Hello again and your appreciation of the channel is most welcome. Ther are a couple of art schools I know of that do use the videos as teaching aids but I'd be happier if there were considerably more.
Hello and thanks for the comment and question. I have not found any definitive information because I haven't managed to track down any original art on auction sites. But if it's not gouache it could only be tempera of some sort, and I'd stake what little reputation I have on gouache, just like you assumed.
Wonderful artwork, but I especially like your phrasing on the last one where you said the relatively young age of 65. If we are going to live to be 100, then 65 is not old. I just wish my friends were still around to hear men say that. Great video Pete. I'm curious if you have come across any illustrators worth doing a video on that are still living?
Hello and thanks again for your appreciation. Somehow I became 72 when I wasn't looking and in he last few years quite a few of my contemporaries have bitten the dust. But I looked online and apparently average lifespan for British males is 81 so these days 65 is fairly young to depart. And the answer to your question about those still among us is I know of many, and admire quite a few. But other than mentions in videos such as Grimms or Kid's books I leave them out, purely because their story isn't yet told. But maybe one day I'll do one on living favourites.
Hello and it's called the Jean Berté process, invented by a Frenchman who emigrated to the USA. I don't think there's a vast amount of information online but good luck with the hunt.
somehow I was more aware of Battaglia as an illustrator than a disney artist, I grew up with a large collection of his books, think it must have been from my american missionary friends in africa
Dear Sir, I am not entirely sure of the location of "CHILI," but please be prepared to receive complaints from people in Chile. I heard a story about a British heavy metal band musician who, when asked if he liked Chile, said something about his preference (or lack thereof) for peppers... 😂 Cheelis from Brazil!
Hello and thanks for the comment. That is how the French spell the name of the country so it isn't a mistake - it's the same as them calling my home Angleterre.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. But that's about the extent of my understanding of the Jean Berte process, and before I made the video I'd never heard of it. It's very obscure and I doubt anybody these days would be stil using it but there might be something on youtube of you search for it by name. What mystifies me is why he didn't just use full colour offset litho to get the same result much easier.
Hello and the answer is I don't actually know, but most likely probably not. I'm not being a grumpy old git about it - I just can't think of anything particularly special.
Hello and thanks for the question. To qualify for the series all illustrators have to have been born between 1850 and 1910, but other than that there are no restrictions. I have collected pictures and biographies of hundreds (with many more to come) and I basically choose them almost at random but try to be balanced and varied in the four featured.
Fantastic presentations! But why not give each of the illustrators it's own respective video? 5 min or so each will be more then enough. Still great work though.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And regarding your suggestion that would have been one way to go when I started out, but I'm now 7 years and nearly 100 videos made so changing formats now wouldn't make a lot of sense. And in my defence most viewers seem to prefer the multiple groupings.
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The voice that welcomes & the knowledge that is priceless - Cheers!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
The cowboy and horse on your title page are fantastic! And your series is one of the best things on TH-cam.
Seconded
Hello and thanks a lot. I must admit I chuckled with glee when I realised I had found such a great title image.
5:25: YAY! Kersey! What a nice surprise to see such a lovely illustration of a village so near that I love so well!
Hello and thanks for revealing the identity of the location. It certainly looks idyllic to me (Manchester doesn't have the same appeal).
@@petebeard Kersey has been used as a filming location on a number of occasions from the film 'Singleton's Pluck' - A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market - to an episode of the Margery Allingham's detective Campion, with Peter Davison and Brian Glover, based on her novel 'Look To The Lady' to the backdrop of some Compare the Meerkat commercials. It's also been somewhat of a pretty village tourist attraction. I was brought up and live in this area within a couple of miles, hence instant recognition! The Meerkat commercial uses exactly the same view.
Another artist who has views of Kersey amongst his works was Suffolk artist Leonard Squirrell. Another well known local family name.
Excellent, thank you. Battaglia's work brought back some memories.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
I remember having that children's book with the Jack and Jill illustration! Brings back memories.
Great episode
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for all your research and your great presentations!
Hello and I'm grateful for your appreciation. Thanks a lot.
Fabulous! What another interesting bunch you have served up. Thanks again Pete for your hard work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response.
Your picture of Battaglia's nursery rhymes brought up a long-forgotten memory from my childhood! Thanks! (And for all of it!)
Hello again and it seems you are far from alone in that regard. Over here he meant nothing - and neither did Little Golden. We had plenty of homegrown equivalents though.
Another great lesson. Thank you very much.
Hello again and thanks a lot.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Pete Beard video, I hit play.
Hello and I'm a simple man too. I read a favourable reponse like this and it makes my day. Thanks
I've not gotten as much into modernism and posterization much but this video could change that...Thanks!
Hello and I try to cover as many bases as I can in the series. We all have our preferences but sometimes it's nice to have them challenged.
Dear Peter
I'm very impressed by the quality of your videos, and I realise the enormous amount of work you have to do for each episode: iconographic and biographical research, editing, writing very well researched and concise texts, bravo!
Well done! And thank you! Because you are creating something that didn't exist before you, and which is very useful to anyone interested in visual creation: from the simple art lover, to the graphic design student and visual arts professionals.
You have created the first visual encyclopaedia devoted to illustrators. I'm sure that, in time, your work will become The International Reference Museum of Illustration. You are doing a very useful job.
Merci !
Hello and to say I'm grateful for your appreciation would be a major understatement. I'm pleased to say that quite a few viewers seem to enjoy and understand what I'm attempting to achieve with the channel, but your comment stands out as one of the most definitive.I really do value your support.
I don't believe I ever knew the name, Aurelius Battaglia, but I have loved his work since I was a child. As always, thank you.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. I think that's true of many - we remember the pictures but not always who created them. As a kid that means nothing.
@@petebeard to continue learning takes a bit of the sting out of that loss of the blissful ignorance of our youth.
Another good one, Pete. Excellent. I was aware of Battaglia as a Disney artist, but not as an illustrator. Thanks for introducing his work in this area to me. Batsford has some lovely pieces that caught my eye there, too.
Hello again and thanks as usual. I must admit I found it more than usually frustrating that my useless sources would not provide any actual evidence of what he actually produced at Disney. Such is life...
The last piggy by the genius battaglia almost looked like drawn by richard scarry! Thanks again for enlightening and enriching us!
Hello and thanks for the comment. maybe Battaglia was an influence - who knows?
Brilliant illustrators gathered together in another gem from Mr. Beard with thanks from an appreciative viewer in the colonies. Cheers, from New Westminster, British Columbia.
Hello again and many thanks for your onfoing appreciation of the channel content.
another excellent part of a great series! Thank you for all of your efforts and great content.
Hello and your appreciation is very welcome
I had that King Mathew the First book :)
Hello and I must admit I had never heard of Srokowsky until quite recently. A very talented man.
@@petebeard To be honest I'm not familiar with his illustrations either. I recognize only that one book and I had and seen a lot of illustrated books as a kid here in Poland in 80's.
Yet again, you have expressed in words and images the reasons why I love illustration. Thank you, Pete.
Hi and that's a very heartwarming response. I'm glad to not be the only one who loves this subject so much.
👍Thank you. Obrigado.🇬🇧🇵🇹
Hello again and you are more than welcome.
Wonderful to have so much information on illustrators I've not heard of before. So much talent, largely forgotten. Thank you Pete for your rediscoveries.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of what I'm trying to achieve with the channel. It's very welcome.
Awesome again. Thanks so much Pete. ♥♦♥♦♥
Hello and your appreciation is always welcome.
Mr. Beard, I thoroughly enjoy your channel! I promote it to my friends whenever possible. A request! Please consider doing a video on The Art of Sherlock Holmes. Since 1891 his adventures have been illustrated by the likes of Sidney and Walter Paget, Frank Wiles, Frederic Dorr Steele, and many comic book artists, movie poster artists, professional illustrators, and motion picture animators--including Walt Disney Studios! A tribute to the Art of Sherlock Holmes would be an elementary chapter to cover in your history of illustration videos. Thank you. Thank you for everything! :)
Hello to you and many thanks for your appreciation and for spreading the word about the channel. Thanks also for the suggestion, and it's not one I had previously considered. But you have arousd my curiosity and I will investigate. If there's a video to be had i will make one, but please don't hold your breath - there is a very long list of others that are works in progress so it may take a while. But I'm very grateful for the idea and will see what I can excavate.
@@petebeard Thank you! Online resources to help you would be the Camden House/Ignis Art site for the complete Sidney Paget Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. Also, the Gutenberg AU (Australia) Roy Glanshan Library offers the complete online Holmes, illustrated by Paget AND many other international illustrators. TH-cam won't allow me to post their direct links but if you'd google those, you'd find them. Thanks again. Peace!
@@davidgradwell8830 Hi again and thanks for getting me started. So much to do, so little time...
@@petebeard LOL! My pleasure. Welcome to my world, my friend! :)
Goodness, there are some stunning illustration pieces here. Charming work for children's books. And some of the travel posters, composition and colouring simply beautiful. I do wish we could see such lovely quality nowadays. Thank you for bringing more treasures to light to inspire and educate us. Your work is so much appreciated.
Hello and my gratitude for your ongoing appreciation of the channel, and the featured illustrators. It seems to me the problem isn't so much a lack of talent among contemporary illustrators, more a lack of opportunity since so many avenues ( posters spring to mind ) are dominated by the use of photography. Sad but some call it progress, and don't get me started on AI...
Right off the bat(taglia) -- what a FABULOUS image!!
Hello and thanks. Nice wordplay too. That singing cowboy was tailor made for the title page - love it.
A most enjoyable and inspiring episode. Thank you.
Hello and Im glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for your great work, whenever I need a break I watch one of your lovely videos.
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.
Great work Pete, really inspiring.
Hello and thanks a lot.
You are obviously the owner of a magic top hat, from which you draw the most amazing examples of illustrators and their work - Battaglia, appealing and charming, Cook Batsford, effortlessly changing styles, Garamond whose modernistic output held least attraction for me until I saw the travel posters and was spellbound, and lastly Srokowski with bright and rather unusual illustrations. Once again, a lovely foursome of artists - thank you
Thanks again, and you certainly have a way with analogies. I'm very pleased you continue to find content to your liking.
Lovely stuff as usual! Thank you!
Hello again and thanks as ever.
I just can tell that i'm really happy to repeat myself again and again : fantastic work! Thanks to you for introducing us to this wonderful world of the illustrators !
Hello once more and feel free to repat yourself as much as you like. Positive reactions are always welcome.
Part of what I enjoy is the time frames against which art /illustration were moving. The wars, depression, personal moves, et al, fascinate me as do the various styles and techniques and technology. Bravo! As Usual!!
Hello again and thanks again. And I agree with your comment - it never occurred to me when I started making these videos that I would be touching so frequently on the wider societal issues revealed in the lives and work of those featured. An unexpected bonus, I think.
- Garamond? Of course I know him - everyone does. At least everyone with at least minimal interest in the history of typography.
- No, not that Garamond. Not Claude, but Jacques-Nathan.
- ????????????
Thanks, Pete! Especially for Jacques-Nathan Garamond’s name - I’ve never heard of him before and his posters are awesome. He sure deserves to be remembered no less than his great namesake.
Hello agan and I'm pleased to have introduced you to this garamond. I must admit I wondered if he added the name as a tribute to the typo man, but my sources would not give any clue.
It is always a delight when you post. I paricularly admire the work og Brian Cook Batsford. The artwork of Aurelius Battaglia reminds me of the styrle prevalent in some of my childhood books. Keep up the good work. Only three more to go to reach the magic 100.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. I like batsford's work too, but I'm baffled why he used such an arcane print process when everyone else was pretty much taking the easier route of offset litho.
Another beautiful compilation! Thank you!
Hello again and thanks again!
What an amazing group of artists, thank you!
Hello again and I'm pleased you think so too.
The gap by Aurelius Battaglia from 41 to 47 will probably covered by enlistment in the US armed forces.
As education goes this is by far the best I've ever had. And I get to drink coffee as well. They wouldn't allow that at school.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. And I must admit it didn't occur to me that the absence of work in the early 40s might be due to the war. It makes sense.
Thank you, this was a wonderful trip through time and space and style. Forget about visiting the age of dinosaurs, give me more of these.
Hello and thanks a lot for your enthusiastic response to this video. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent video. Thank you for posting.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's always good to know the channel is appreciated.
Once again another great presentation! A.B. is definitely an illustrator I grew up with.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Being British and growing up on british books I had no previous idea of his existence. I really like his modernist style.
Immersive and entrancing. Thank you.
Hello and many thanks for those kind adjectives.
Yes! I enjoyed it immensely! I actually have one of the Battaglia music books but didn't know about his Disney work. And I've seen, if not actual reproductions of Batsford's work on book covers, ones done in his style! This series is wonderful!
Hello again and thanks as usual. Unfortunately what little information I could find about him didn't provide any actual example of work he had done. I would have liked to know more.
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Amazing videos! It would be wonderful to have in the video description an index with the illustrators and the time where it's part starts.
Hello and thanks a lot. The illustrators are listed in order in the description box and if you hover over the timeline the chapters put in by youtube show when one ends and another begins.
Seeing these artists and other ones you've featured makes me want to track down some of the original art such as the posters.
Hello and thanks for your comment. It's very hit and miss but you might be surprised just how many of the posters are still for sale online.
Reading old Little Golden books to my children actually got me into appreciating illustration as an an art form.
Hello and thabks a lot for your comment. I think kid's picture books are most people's introduction to this wonderful popular artform.
Please do an article on griss grimly.
@@michaelguerrieri3486 Hello again, and you obviously missed it but I already replied to your previous request. Unfortunately however much i admire his work his isn't eligible as he isn't dead. Sorry.
those thick line illustrations really resemble xylography inkprinting! I wonder if it was just stylistic or if he used xylography to make the black outlines?
Lovely video, Pete! Love the artists you mention!
Hello and thanks for the favourable comment. They do rather resemble woodblock work, but I would doubt that they really were. Or at least it would be highly unlikely for any mainstream kid's book publisher at the time to go any other way than full colour offset litho. But as I say, I have no proof of it.
Amazing! The posters are AMAZING!
Hello and I'm very pleased you think so. Thanks a lot for the comment.
I never watch your videos on the phone or tablet but watch on the big screen.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit I have had comments from the younger generations complaining that the pictures aren't very big on their phones.
I'm First! Yay, First at something, finally. ;)
EDIT: These were great, Pete. Thanks! It was nice to see you moving onto somewhat more contemporary artists, at least to us old folks. ;)
Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed it. If it gets decent views I'll make another on similar lines. There are still plenty of later candidates to choose from.
5:20 had never heard of this type of printing before, and my ADHD brain went down a rabbit hole learning about it lol
Love the series and the music... sadly, the music makes it all but impossible to hear your voice clearly except on rare occasions when the pianist toned it down. I'm sure your commentary was mastterful, just couldn't make most of it out.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm sorry about the music interfering with the narration but viewer feedback strongly suggests you are in a minority and most actually find it works. My best suggestion is that you simply turn on the subtitles and then there's no doubt what I'm prattling on about.
Great video thanks very much
You're very welcome as ever.
I love your videos so much, thanks for them! Can you do one on Warwick Goble please?
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Warwick Goble has featured in unsung heroes 22, and if it helps, when I upload part 100 I'll also add a complete list of those fearured so far and where they can be found.
@@petebeard that would certainly help, thanks!
Good work as always!Thank you
Hello again and thanks for your continued interest n the channel.
Your videos should be required viewing for graphic design and illustration students. All of these artists are new to me. To state that they are of interest to me is a huge understatement. I could not help but notice one of the artist had an influence on Saul Bass.
Hello again and your appreciation of the channel is most welcome. Ther are a couple of art schools I know of that do use the videos as teaching aids but I'd be happier if there were considerably more.
Thank you so much! Wish you have a good day~
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video. Yiur comment is very welcome.
I adore Battaglia's mid-century children's book work. Do you know what media he used? I'm assuming gouache, but I'd love to know for sure.
Hello and thanks for the comment and question. I have not found any definitive information because I haven't managed to track down any original art on auction sites. But if it's not gouache it could only be tempera of some sort, and I'd stake what little reputation I have on gouache, just like you assumed.
Wonderful artwork, but I especially like your phrasing on the last one where you said the relatively young age of 65. If we are going to live to be 100, then 65 is not old. I just wish my friends were still around to hear men say that. Great video Pete. I'm curious if you have come across any illustrators worth doing a video on that are still living?
Hello and thanks again for your appreciation. Somehow I became 72 when I wasn't looking and in he last few years quite a few of my contemporaries have bitten the dust. But I looked online and apparently average lifespan for British males is 81 so these days 65 is fairly young to depart. And the answer to your question about those still among us is I know of many, and admire quite a few. But other than mentions in videos such as Grimms or Kid's books I leave them out, purely because their story isn't yet told. But maybe one day I'll do one on living favourites.
Thank you!
You are welcome.
What was that french printing process on the batsford books? I wanted to learn more...
Hello and it's called the Jean Berté process, invented by a Frenchman who emigrated to the USA. I don't think there's a vast amount of information online but good luck with the hunt.
Thanks Pete!
somehow I was more aware of Battaglia as an illustrator than a disney artist, I grew up with a large collection of his books, think it must have been from my american missionary friends in africa
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit I found it very frustrating to learn he had worked for Disney but could find no actual examples.
Dear Sir,
I am not entirely sure of the location of "CHILI," but please be prepared to receive complaints from people in Chile. I heard a story about a British heavy metal band musician who, when asked if he liked Chile, said something about his preference (or lack thereof) for peppers... 😂
Cheelis from Brazil!
Hello and thanks for the comment. That is how the French spell the name of the country so it isn't a mistake - it's the same as them calling my home Angleterre.
@@petebeard Thanks! I did not know that. These Gauls are peculiar...
could you go into more detail in a video about the printing process you talk about at minute 5:23
This channel is a gem!!! thanks for your work.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. But that's about the extent of my understanding of the Jean Berte process, and before I made the video I'd never heard of it. It's very obscure and I doubt anybody these days would be stil using it but there might be something on youtube of you search for it by name. What mystifies me is why he didn't just use full colour offset litho to get the same result much easier.
Fascinating as ever.
Hello again and that's the kind of response I always hope for.
Şahane!!!
Unforgettable Fantasia
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Hello and I had to look up the meaning of 'sahane' but was very pleased with the translation. Thanks a lot.
Yeah! number 97. Are you going to present us with something special for 100?
Hello and the answer is I don't actually know, but most likely probably not. I'm not being a grumpy old git about it - I just can't think of anything particularly special.
How do you choose which set of illustrators to show and talk about?
Hello and thanks for the question. To qualify for the series all illustrators have to have been born between 1850 and 1910, but other than that there are no restrictions. I have collected pictures and biographies of hundreds (with many more to come) and I basically choose them almost at random but try to be balanced and varied in the four featured.
Fantastic presentations! But why not give each of the illustrators it's own respective video? 5 min or so each will be more then enough. Still great work though.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And regarding your suggestion that would have been one way to go when I started out, but I'm now 7 years and nearly 100 videos made so changing formats now wouldn't make a lot of sense. And in my defence most viewers seem to prefer the multiple groupings.