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“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”

—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

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theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/

The Guardian · Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson PeakBy Guardian staff reporter
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“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”

—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post

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washingtonpost.com/entertainme

The Washington Post · More than a century later, the wonderful work of Andrew Lang holds up remarkably wellBy Michael Dirda
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“His own fairy narratives, however, and their success in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, suggest… that fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”

—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-

The Bottle Imp · 'A Shy and Fugitive People': Andrew Lang and the Fairies - The Bottle ImpFor Andrew Lang, the realm of fairy land was synonymous with escape. Writing in The New Princeton Review in 1888, the same year in which he assembled his authoritative edition of Perrault’s fairy tales and completed his own novel about fairy abduction The Gold of Fairnilee, Lang lamented the insistence in modern writing upon the ‘ugly, manly face […]
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Finished this up on my livestream yesterday. I think I had computer problems that were causing MakerTube to freak out a bit… I re-uploaded the recording, so the creation of this piece is all there now.

Here’s the speedpaint: makertube.net/w/2aAsvstzyV9jcE

And here are the two livestream recordings:

Pt 1: makertube.net/w/hDHkDtGCbnXf5Q
Pt 2: makertube.net/w/2hKfgDLc9MFD9z

Illustration of a moment inspired by the Little Mermaid where she looks up at a ship on the surface of the water in a sunset. Bubbles surround her as she is darkly lit in shadows and water. Deep textures and layers of colors descending from golden oranges and yellows at the top through teals to dark blues and purples at the bottom. The entire image is stylized with embossed lines in the the style of Art Nouveau.
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