Monday, 24 October 2011

Mary Blair


I love Google Doodles anytime, but I was very taken by the one from last Friday:

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It was created in celebration of Mary Blair, an illustrator who worked for Disney most of her life. She would have been 100 years old on 21 October. 

I followed a few of the Google links and found such a great catalogue of work. Mary Blair not only created images for Disney, but also painted privately, illustrated books and provided drawings for advertisements.

Her style is very colourful, bursting with life and really, really cute. A lot of her designs feature children, animals and flowers.

Here are a few ones that I loved:

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7 comments:

  1. oliveverlyblog24 October 2011 at 13:49

    Love this post - when I stumbled upon her doodle on google I decided to find more out about the artist as well - I was just taken by her work! Such a great story and life of art.

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  2. Anonymous24 October 2011 at 14:42

    cute cute! super cute!

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  3. Evie25 October 2011 at 05:47

    i love mary blair too. great collection of her work shown in this post : )

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  4. jaquelyn {mama thoughts}26 October 2011 at 14:19

    These are all so sweet & whimsical! :)

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  5. Nikki @ Saving For A Rainy Day26 October 2011 at 18:53

    These are so sweet! I love them!! Thanks for sharing Mary Blair with us!

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  6. meg + andy26 October 2011 at 23:11

    These are so precious. they remind me so much of childhood books...or old -school disney, i guess. so sweet. thanks for sharing. :)

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  7. Lady Goo Goo Gaga27 October 2011 at 03:44

    I love the kitchen and bath ones!!!

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