You may remember when I mentioned how much I adore artist Shen Plum? Well, I was able to connect with her, and she has very sweetly agreed to share a bit more with us about a few of her pieces – yay! :) This series of illustrations, called The Kitsune Myth, has an ancient fairy-tale quality that I love, yet still feels very modern. Let’s have a look, and hear what Shen has to say about her work:
{the tree thief}
“The whole series was illustrated and painted on calligraphy papers. They get a little bit wrinkly with wet paint but that doesn’t bother me that much.”
{the coyote spirit}
“I love traditional chinese and japanese paintings; so for this series I tried to combine that into my illustrations. It worked out pretty well I think.”
{the fox spirit}
“Theme wise, I watched a lot of BBC wild life documentaries on foxes, wolves, etc, and I just sort of made up random stories in my head as I watch the films. So yeah, mostly imaginary :) “
Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration with us! Okay now, everybody run over and check out more of Shen’s dreamy work.
Shen Plum: Website/Flickr/Little Paper Planes/MySpace
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OMG – I totally am in love with Bunnicula Print!!!
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those are wonderful! funny, i posted an artist on my blog today that reminds me a little of this style of artwork. dreamy, pretty, nice!
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Ah, kitsune, it’s one Japanese word I actually recognize! My daughter is the family artist. I think she’ll be interested in Shen’s work.
You really find the most amazing things :-)
Her illustrations are simply stunning.
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