Re: What is your favourite Ransome illustration ?


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Posted by Eric Abraham on January 25, 2005 at 14:54:10 from 64.178.230.83 user EricAbraham.

In Reply to: What is your favourite Ransome illustration ? posted by RichardG on January 25, 2005 at 13:47:07:

Interesting comment about faces - After some quick looking through "Ransome the Artist" by Roger Wardale, I see quite a few studies of faces. I am thinking that Mr. Ransome may not have been that comfortable with faces, and it seems to me that he may have been wanting the reader to "fill in" the faces in the imagination, which is what I did when I first read the books. My imagination just took off from the illustration in the book. The illustrations work very well to convey the action -- sort of like the comments in another thread, about the slowness of the charactors decoding Nancy's message, letting the reader one-up the children.

I do not think I have a "favorite" illustration, they are all wonderful in their places! Ones that stick in my mind now are the ones that show the children in interior scenes - "sums" in Peter Duck, etc.. ----

Eric Abraham



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