Hello and many thanks for your comment. And if I do make you feel like that then Im proud of myself. Many of these books are real treasures as far as I'm concerned.
Another terrific presentation. Have always been a sucker for work in the George Gross style. I admire his skill with oils and his interesting use of perspective. Elisabeth Ivanovsky's style was fresh and original. Thank you Mr. Beard for some new discoveries.
Hello again and thanks for that. Every once in a while I surprise myself with a decent turn of phrase. I do have a weakness for this kind of sensationalism, and I'm currently (but slowly) working on a video dedicated to pulp.
This was a particularly fantastic quartet of artists, really gorgeous work across the board! I was really taken by that Ivanovsky piece at 13:23, the girl wading out into the ocean. Just lovely!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. I must admit I had to remind myself just who was in this, although I remembered Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Funnily enough I've just started a solo video about her and her work, although I have no idea when it will get uploaded.
These are just brilliant miniatures of wonderful artists. When I have a few moments, I relish visiting your delightful presentations! Having just discovered them, I eagerly anticipate all in the series. Excellent work, and inspiring!
I cannot thank you enough, Pete, for the vast amount of work you have put in to researching and compiling these videos- and for having this channel from which they can be enjoyed. When covid 19 broke in the U.S. last Spring, I had recently buried my Mother who had died suddenly one night only 6 months after my Father whom she had been his sole caregiver as he struggled with end stage Alzheimers. They could not live without each other, it seems. By May - I was sheltering at home, fell and broke an ankle and a week later lost one of my lovely canine companions, a little Bedlington Terrier named Jett. Over all shock had set in by then. I would spend the next several months in my house, restricted in a cast, and being more grateful than I can say, for my Airedale Terrier roomate, Theo. The two dogs had been my lifesaver to get through the loss of my parents... Theo would be what was left to me. In that desperation I began drawing for the first time in my life. Drawing the two pups in the scenario of imagined travels into the National Parks of the United States (where my parents had taken my brothers and I on camping vacations throughout the summers of my youth). It was my way of connecting with all that I loved... here in isolation in Athens, Georgia. I drew every day. I added parks one by one. Theo and Jett and their Forest Friends I had created even took a hike up the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. At one point, I was prompted by a friend to submit my illustrations for a grant offering by The Judith Alexander Foundation, a foundation closely connected to the High Museum in Atlanta, that supports outsider artists in the state of Georgia. I won the grant! After only a couple of months of working daily to learn this "new art", new way or overcoming my isolation by getting out into the forests and mountains and deserts and prairies with strokes of a pencil, pen and brush. That was the most amazing boost of encouragement that maybe I should continue. I was posting a park a day for a period of time and people came to look for them around 7 pm each evening on a facebook page that I set up for the illustrations. It isn't much, but it is a diary of work and progress and stick-to-it-ness. Then... I discovered your videos and your channel. Second boost of encouragement! They are such a beautiful Gift to me and I know to so many others, too. I have learned the scope of the art of illustration and about the lives of these wonderful artists who have for the most part been forgotten, except that you made the point to remember them and to share them. I am ever so thankful to you for doing that. I still do not think I have seen every single one because I enjoy re-watching the ones I have seen! Thank you for knowing how important it is to remember. I have been sharing your programs to my page to the delight of others there, too. I look forward to visiting this collection often. ~ Deborah Avis Wall. p.s. If you have any curiosity for it, please visit my illustration page that began in May 2020. I will link to the photos here. Thank you! facebook.com/Little-Prints-Deborah-Avis-Wall-220715485934930/photos/?ref=page_internal
Hello and thanks for your comments. I'm really sorry to hear about your losses. If watching the channel has been at all inspirational or useful to you then I'm very proud of that. And the endearing and comical dog pictures you've been making do show the resilience of the human spirit. I've always found that creative occupation of one sort or another provides a strong barrier against the bad times life can throw at us. I hope you'll continue to create and watch the videos for inspiration.
There's nothing so inspiring than taking breakfast and seeing some "Unsung Illustrators" from Pete. You've made different and better these complicated times, thanks and the desire a Happy Christmas and a New Year plenty of joy and health. Very thanks, as usual for your work from your art friend in Barcelona. Pd: Alejandro Sirio a great discover to me....
Hello Gabriel. And I hope you are enjoying the season too. As far as the new year is concerned it will have to try hard to be worse than the last one. I had got used to regular visits to Spain and the wonderful costas (and other Mediterranean locations) in recent years and then along comes covid. And thanks for your continued enthusiasm for the channel - it is greatly appreciated.
Hi again Pete... bet you've already guessed which one takes the cake in this video, yep, George Gross.... I enjoy the realism in his work. I think you should supply certificates of completion, or diplomas for your viewers who watch your entire series.... I almost feel like I'm at an art college studying art history and that I'll be able to use it in my resume! Looking forward to the next class.
Hi John. I'd never heard of Gross until recently and he really has been overlooked. Glad you enjoyed it. One of my main motivations for doing this is because the oor devils paying a fortune for their education will get none of this, sadly.
It is impossible to over emphasise how much pleasure some of your discoveries transmit. In this particular video it is the Ivanovsky. Although I don't enjoy the anthropormism of animals her style and techniques are really enjoyable. Even the abstraction leaves creatures recognisable . When the second hand bookshops become once more accessible here in the Netherlands I shall look some out.
Hello again and it really is a pleasant feeling to know that viewers continue to enjoy and appreciate the channel content so my gratitude for that. And I think Ivanovsky is one of the most distinctive and attractive illustrators I've discovered since starting the channel. Incidentally, you don't have to wait for bookshops - there are copies on ebay if you want some.
It's hard seeing talented male artists who chose to mainly promote women as mostly exempt from anything human other than abuse (that era especially when he worked probably did more damage than any other for the rights of women, who'd just barely "earned" the right to vote, get a job, schooling etc, only to be constantly reminded how less they are nonetheless) - but ending this episode with Elisabeth Ivanovsky totally wiped gross Gross out of my mind. What a delightful style she had, and so prolific! I'm especially attracted to non-lined, color shapes in artworks and these were over the top creative. Just fun. I'm going to look for her books. She was also unknown to me so thanks again for adding.
Thank you for highlighting these artists. What, if anything, do you think separates the figurative work of Milliere & Gross from Renior, Bouguereau, or Waterhouse? As a figure painter in the Unites States, I find many people repulsed by paintings of the figure unless they're hanging in a museum.
Hello and thanks for your comment. As a former illustrator it has always got on my nerves that art critics and historians in particular have looked down their noses at commercial work. They're welcome to Renoir - I'll take Elvgren every time.
@@petebeard I love Gil Elvgren's work too. I also love Pino Daeni's paintings. I don't know what's wrong with critics & historians, but perhaps the reproduction issue is at play for the masses? I remember being in awe of the paint application in a painting by Norman Rockwell at the Truman museum in Kansas City.
Hi again. Well, first of all I'd need to finish the series and it's touch and go whether I'll live long enough to do that. There are still many to come. And in case I do live longer than that I already have a tentative list of illustrators even less well known than these
Yes I wondered whether to put a warning up about that, but realised that most (unlike your good self) wouldn't have been aware of the great German satirist so I didn't.
@@petebeard Well, thank you haha. I'm no expert, learned about Grosz by chance actually. Strange how two visual artists almost have the exact same name.
You are the best, Pete Beard!
Hello and would you mind telling my wife that? Thanks a lot - very flattering.
Thank you! Always a pleasure
..and always a pleasure to know people are enjoying the work.
The only way to start a Sunday morning - a large mug of coffee with a Pete Beard video!
Thanks a lot as usual.
Thank you so much for these documentaries!
You make the owners of children’s books feel like rare art collectors!!!
Hello and many thanks for your comment. And if I do make you feel like that then Im proud of myself. Many of these books are real treasures as far as I'm concerned.
I love this series SO much! Thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. Knowing viewers are getting something out of the content is very pleasing.
A really unique and innovative idea! Thanks Peter
Hello again and thanks a lot for your support fr the channel.
I, too, really enjoy your work and research
Hi and thanks a lot. Glad you like it.
Hi Pete
A Saturday morning made even better.
Thanks - glad you liked it.
Outstanding as always.
And I'm grateful as always. Thanks.
Just an amazing catalogue of illustrators and techniques which I am really enjoying...thank you Pete Beard!
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It means a lot to me that the videos count for something.
Another terrific presentation.
Have always been a sucker for work in the George Gross style.
I admire his skill with oils and his interesting use of perspective.
Elisabeth Ivanovsky's style was fresh and original.
Thank you Mr. Beard for some new discoveries.
Hi again and it's a really good feeling to know that the videos are getting through to viewers.
Another fabulous episode of an unmissable series. Great work Pete, thank you.
Hi Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. No sign of an end to the list still to come.
“Gloriously trashy”
Perfect!
The 90’s in Seattle had a subculture that loved and lived this genre.
It’s much more mainstream now.
Hello again and thanks for that. Every once in a while I surprise myself with a decent turn of phrase. I do have a weakness for this kind of sensationalism, and I'm currently (but slowly) working on a video dedicated to pulp.
@@petebeard Can't wait!
Most enjoyable meeting more illustrators..so much talent in so many mediums…thanks
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Hi again and thanks for your continued support for the channel. Many more to come I hope.
Amazing how many illustrators you have found and covered!
Hello again - and you should see the length of the list of those still waiting to be featured.
I love your series so much!
Hello and that's great to know. Viewer appreciation is a great motivator.
I've always had a soft spot for pulp illustrators. Thanks for another fine episode!
Yes there's something about that sleazy stuff, and there's still quite a few similar artists to cover.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful teaching in such beautiful English! I am thrilled to have found you.
Hello and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for your flattering comment and I hope you continue to enjoy the content.
I am so in love with Elisabeth Ivanovsky's illustrations . Thank you for featuring her beautiful gift to the storytelling world.
Hello and I agree about her illustration. Until I started making these videos I had never heard of her or seen her work. A real revelation.
This was a particularly fantastic quartet of artists, really gorgeous work across the board! I was really taken by that Ivanovsky piece at 13:23, the girl wading out into the ocean. Just lovely!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. I must admit I had to remind myself just who was in this, although I remembered Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Funnily enough I've just started a solo video about her and her work, although I have no idea when it will get uploaded.
These are just brilliant miniatures of wonderful artists. When I have a few moments, I relish visiting your delightful presentations! Having just discovered them, I eagerly anticipate all in the series. Excellent work, and inspiring!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation, and I hope you continue to be inspired by others in the series.
I cannot thank you enough, Pete, for the vast amount of work you have put in to researching and compiling these videos- and for having this channel from which they can be enjoyed. When covid 19 broke in the U.S. last Spring, I had recently buried my Mother who had died suddenly one night only 6 months after my Father whom she had been his sole caregiver as he struggled with end stage Alzheimers. They could not live without each other, it seems. By May - I was sheltering at home, fell and broke an ankle and a week later lost one of my lovely canine companions, a little Bedlington Terrier named Jett. Over all shock had set in by then. I would spend the next several months in my house, restricted in a cast, and being more grateful than I can say, for my Airedale Terrier roomate, Theo. The two dogs had been my lifesaver to get through the loss of my parents... Theo would be what was left to me. In that desperation I began drawing for the first time in my life. Drawing the two pups in the scenario of imagined travels into the National Parks of the United States (where my parents had taken my brothers and I on camping vacations throughout the summers of my youth). It was my way of connecting with all that I loved... here in isolation in Athens, Georgia. I drew every day. I added parks one by one. Theo and Jett and their Forest Friends I had created even took a hike up the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. At one point, I was prompted by a friend to submit my illustrations for a grant offering by The Judith Alexander Foundation, a foundation closely connected to the High Museum in Atlanta, that supports outsider artists in the state of Georgia. I won the grant! After only a couple of months of working daily to learn this "new art", new way or overcoming my isolation by getting out into the forests and mountains and deserts and prairies with strokes of a pencil, pen and brush. That was the most amazing boost of encouragement that maybe I should continue. I was posting a park a day for a period of time and people came to look for them around 7 pm each evening on a facebook page that I set up for the illustrations. It isn't much, but it is a diary of work and progress and stick-to-it-ness. Then... I discovered your videos and your channel. Second boost of encouragement! They are such a beautiful Gift to me and I know to so many others, too. I have learned the scope of the art of illustration and about the lives of these wonderful artists who have for the most part been forgotten, except that you made the point to remember them and to share them. I am ever so thankful to you for doing that. I still do not think I have seen every single one because I enjoy re-watching the ones I have seen! Thank you for knowing how important it is to remember. I have been sharing your programs to my page to the delight of others there, too. I look forward to visiting this collection often. ~ Deborah Avis Wall. p.s. If you have any curiosity for it, please visit my illustration page that began in May 2020. I will link to the photos here. Thank you! facebook.com/Little-Prints-Deborah-Avis-Wall-220715485934930/photos/?ref=page_internal
Hello and thanks for your comments. I'm really sorry to hear about your losses. If watching the channel has been at all inspirational or useful to you then I'm very proud of that. And the endearing and comical dog pictures you've been making do show the resilience of the human spirit. I've always found that creative occupation of one sort or another provides a strong barrier against the bad times life can throw at us. I hope you'll continue to create and watch the videos for inspiration.
@@petebeard Thank you! I most certainly will. Stay safe, stay well, Pete.
Thank you so much! Your descriptive and appreciative videos have me eyeing my quotidien surroundings with a more wondering eye ~
Hello and yet again I thought I'd replied to this. But no - I must have dozed off. Thanks as usual.
There's nothing so inspiring than taking breakfast and seeing some "Unsung Illustrators" from Pete.
You've made different and better these complicated times, thanks and the desire a Happy Christmas and a New Year plenty of joy and health.
Very thanks, as usual for your work from your art friend in Barcelona.
Pd: Alejandro Sirio a great discover to me....
Hello Gabriel. And I hope you are enjoying the season too. As far as the new year is concerned it will have to try hard to be worse than the last one. I had got used to regular visits to Spain and the wonderful costas (and other Mediterranean locations) in recent years and then along comes covid. And thanks for your continued enthusiasm for the channel - it is greatly appreciated.
Cheers Pete!
You're welcome and more are on the way.
Hi again Pete... bet you've already guessed which one takes the cake in this video, yep, George Gross.... I enjoy the realism in his work. I think you should supply certificates of completion, or diplomas for your viewers who watch your entire series.... I almost feel like I'm at an art college studying art history and that I'll be able to use it in my resume! Looking forward to the next class.
Hi John. I'd never heard of Gross until recently and he really has been overlooked. Glad you enjoyed it. One of my main motivations for doing this is because the oor devils paying a fortune for their education will get none of this, sadly.
@@petebeard It's true, a lot of expense today and personally I think I'm learning more here!
Alejandro Sirio es un artista con muchos adeptos y reconocimiento en Argentina. Ha sido adoptado como uno de los nuestros!
Hola y estoy muy contento de saber que es apreciado en su país.
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Hello and thanks a lot. I hope you find plenty to keep your interest.
It is impossible to over emphasise how much pleasure some of your discoveries transmit. In this particular video it is the Ivanovsky. Although I don't enjoy the anthropormism of animals her style and techniques are really enjoyable. Even the abstraction leaves creatures recognisable . When the second hand bookshops become once more accessible here in the Netherlands I shall look some out.
Hello again and it really is a pleasant feeling to know that viewers continue to enjoy and appreciate the channel content so my gratitude for that. And I think Ivanovsky is one of the most distinctive and attractive illustrators I've discovered since starting the channel. Incidentally, you don't have to wait for bookshops - there are copies on ebay if you want some.
Best channel on youtube .Please keep up the great work!
Hello and thanks a lot for your flattering comment. I'll keep making them for as long as you and others keep watching them.
It's hard seeing talented male artists who chose to mainly promote women as mostly exempt from anything human other than abuse (that era especially when he worked probably did more damage than any other for the rights of women, who'd just barely "earned" the right to vote, get a job, schooling etc, only to be constantly reminded how less they are nonetheless) - but ending this episode with Elisabeth Ivanovsky totally wiped gross Gross out of my mind. What a delightful style she had, and so prolific! I'm especially attracted to non-lined, color shapes in artworks and these were over the top creative. Just fun. I'm going to look for her books. She was also unknown to me so thanks again for adding.
Hello and I understand the point you make about Gross and so many others. And I'm glad you presevered to find Ivanovsky's wonderful work.
great work
Thanks a lot.
Love this series my friend, thank you for doing it ^^
And my thanks for your ongoing interest fot what I'm trying to do.
Thank you for highlighting these artists. What, if anything, do you think separates the figurative work of Milliere & Gross from Renior, Bouguereau, or Waterhouse? As a figure painter in the Unites States, I find many people repulsed by paintings of the figure unless they're hanging in a museum.
Hello and thanks for your comment. As a former illustrator it has always got on my nerves that art critics and historians in particular have looked down their noses at commercial work. They're welcome to Renoir - I'll take Elvgren every time.
@@petebeard I love Gil Elvgren's work too. I also love Pino Daeni's paintings. I don't know what's wrong with critics & historians, but perhaps the reproduction issue is at play for the masses? I remember being in awe of the paint application in a painting by Norman Rockwell at the Truman museum in Kansas City.
George Gross illustrated my favorite men's action genre - men being overcome by small bitey creatures.
Yes I thought that image was pretty funny too.
Are you going to do a sung heroes of illustration after you finish this series?
Hi again. Well, first of all I'd need to finish the series and it's touch and go whether I'll live long enough to do that. There are still many to come. And in case I do live longer than that I already have a tentative list of illustrators even less well known than these
He makes the occasional spotlight video on specific illustrators already.
Illustrator George Gross...not to be confused with artist and illustrator George Grosz!
Yes I wondered whether to put a warning up about that, but realised that most (unlike your good self) wouldn't have been aware of the great German satirist so I didn't.
@@petebeard Well, thank you haha. I'm no expert, learned about Grosz by chance actually. Strange how two visual artists almost have the exact same name.
Have you done Andre Castaigne yet?
Hi and until now I'd never heard of him, so I'm indebted to you for the informaton and he's now on the list. Thanks a lot.
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Hello and thanks for watching. I'm pleased you are enjoying the channel content.