Comments on: Let’s Paint like Emily Wrote – Emotional Connection with Childhood Novels

By: Päivi

Päivi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:30:56 +0000

In reply to Adrienne McCarter. Thank you for the comment, Adrienne! To me, many old illustrations also look like they have been made with watercolors or gouache paints.

By: Päivi

Päivi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:28:36 +0000

In reply to Tammie. Thank you, Tammie!

By: Adrienne McCarter

Adrienne McCarter — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:06:15 +0000

I’m so glad I saved my children’s books because now I read them to me grandchildren. So I’m reliving some three times now from my own childhood until now. I love the old illustrations. So many look like watercolors to me. I’ve been having a wonder time experimenting with new colors and seeing how they effect being on top or under or next to, each other. I used to this for weeks in end when I worked in clay. The underglazes I used act just like watercolors when I was able to get a good kind of swirl going. I love, love, love dandelions. So do the bees!

By: Tammie

Tammie — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:15:33 +0000

Such a lovely painting.
I don’t think i have an emotional connection to childhood novels, though I still enjoy reading some books written for young people.

By: Päivi

Päivi — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:33:17 +0000

In reply to Elizabeth Wakefield. Thanks so much, Elizabeth! The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is new to me but looks like an exciting fantasy story.

By: Päivi

Päivi — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:31:36 +0000

In reply to Lynne (Louisa Ellingham on FB). Thank you for the lovely comment, Louisa! The Wonderful Fashion Doll looks like a fun book. Many of who you mentioned are new to me, but for example Marguerite di Angeli's illustrations are delightful and remind me of some Scandinavian illustrators.

By: Elizabeth Wakefield

Elizabeth Wakefield — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:40:11 +0000

I enjoyed Enid Blytons Secret Seven, but my favourites were her one offs, particularly the secret of killimooin, about a secret world inside a volcano. I also like the wierdstone of brisingimen. I always had an interest in the ‘other worldly’ and history.I was and am an avid reader, loosing myself in other times and places.
I think that’s why I like your paintings and courses Paivi. They transport me elsewhere

By: Lynne (Louisa Ellingham on FB)

Lynne (Louisa Ellingham on FB) — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:41:51 +0000

The books I read in my childhood remain a part of me regardless of how old I get. I also read the “Anne” books and “Little Women”, but I also loved the illustrated books for children (girls) a bit younger… Two of my favourite author/illustrators are: Laura Bannon (The Wonderful Fashion Doll, a sweet mystery tale for young girls) and Marguerite di Angeli (Thee, Hannah! about a little Quaker girl trying to understand her life in mid 19th Century Boston.) Also the Misty books about the wild horses on the island of Chincoteague (illustrated by Wesley Dennis) and Pookie, about a little rabbit with wings by Ivy Wallace. And of course, who doesn’t love the Winnie the Pooh books illustrated by E.H. Shepard and all the lovely animals done by Beatrix Potter? And I could go on…