Once Upon a Time/July-Rene Bull 1875-1942

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Our illustrator for July 2012 is Rene Bullborn in Dublin 1875, died in 1942.

He was an illustrator of childrens books and a cartoonist. He also did many costume designs for The Ballet Russe.




Prince Igor





Please copy or be inspired and show us what you have done.
Links follow

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http://www.google.com/search?q=rene+...&tbm=isch&tbo=


http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/public/au...ile.php?id=743


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:René_Bull

Please use these links to see further images you might like.

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Sorry...Mr Bulls date of birth was 1872 Bad morning

[tyree]

some fascinating works here..!!! good pick for the month....did he do the illustrations for the Uncle Remus and Briar Rabbit Book??? tyree

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Hi,Tyree....He did do Uncle Remus, but all I could find was an image of the cover.

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Here you go Tyree...found a rabbit in images.

[tyree]

thats amazing....when i was a kid, dad would play the record on an old phonograph....tyree

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Mr Bull seemed to work in a lot different styles He shared credit with another artist for Uncle Remus, but the pen and ink drawings are his.
I also was interested In his ballet costumes. So many artists did stage sets and costumes it might be fun to do a
Thread on this some time.

[azulparsnip]

new to me .......great feature illustrator, Janet......thanks

[gakinme]

Thank you, Janet, for the challenge.

I did a couple here on Pentalic 70 sketchbook 5.5 x 8 inch with Uniball black pen and Daniel Smith watercolor.

[artbyjune]

Another interesting illustrator. I love the movement in prince Igor image.

Hi Sandra, you are off to a quick and brilliant start. Colours good and moody in the first one; and I love your pen work in the second.

[azulparsnip]

two good ones Sandra....the movement in the first one makes me feel like I'm swooning

[tyree]

Sandra....these are terrific....great characters..i love that first one...tyree

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Sandra...so nice and sketchy.

[gakinme]

Thank you, ladies.

The background is some spilled Dr. Ph Bombay India Ink teal color that I slathered over my Academie Heavyweight 80 lb sketchbook 8.5 x 11 inch. This is 1/4 of the page.

Japanese bruah pen which is drying up - black and grey. I thought about it fading and will have to redo this if I want to put it on the wall.

Uniball white gel pen.

This brush pen is the felt tip one and I wished for the figure, I used the Calligraphy brush pen instead because I already have an outline. For sketching, brushpen is better because you could control the line, but for inking, Calligraphy brush pen is better.

I've redesigned Bull's work. I don't fancy women without arms.