June 22, 2006

Artists interpreting preschoolers interpreting Disney Preschoolers from The Hollywood Schoolhouse were asked to draw their favourite scenes from the Winnie the Pooh storybook. These drawings were then handed off to some up-and-coming artists, who were asked to render the child's drawing in their own style and vision. The child's artwork will be sold alongside the artist's work. (Via Neil Gaiman's blog.)
posted by tracicle 18 years ago
  • I think the ones where they really work from the drawing, without importing too much of their own knowledge of Pooh and co. are best. My favourite is the one with the arrow.
  • Yeah, the arrow is good. Its like the whole story in one pic. Even given Plegmund's point, I have to say I like Brooke Reidt's where the flowers are inhabiting the same space as the animals. I think Jeff McMillan's 'little house I was stuck in' is also good just for pure surreality. The Situation Trial is also endearing.
  • > The Situation Trial is also endearing. i'd buy that one if i had money. nice link tracicle.
  • Yeah, you can tell that some of the "after" artists were a bit self-indulgent. This is my favorite. Look at how shocked Rabbit is that Pooh is floating in a hunk of earth.
  • The pictures by the adults are all sadder. I don't really like the disturbing for the sake of not having any other aesthetic either, that's in some of the pictures. Though I do like the bizarre, rubbery piglett in the bridge picture, creepy as it is. And the Christopher Robin with multiple feet.
  • I LOVED how Mark Bodnar captured the "floating trees and rocks" thing that you see so often in kids' drawings, and make it into sort of a Daliesque thing. They're all beautiful, but that's my favorite.
  • It appears we all have the same favorite. Is it groupthink?
  • ...and how much do the children get? That's a cheap way to get some inspiration...
  • ,small>"Is it groupthink?" I think, group. Certainly my favourite, anyway. *checks to see if tax return is in the mailbox*
  • What is it with me and blasted tags lately? Sheesh...
  • I think it's memorex.
  • Why are so many of the pictures set in caves? /freud
  • This is a lot like The Monster Engine, only nowhere near as cool.
  • I think the kids were inspired by a certain Pooh book, which may have included a cave. I wish they'd included the book as well, so you could see all three levels. /likes the arrow picture and the Situation Trial best, too!
  • Well, Pooh Launch is my hands down favorite! No one but Chris Roth/Zachary Camino is to design my trees! And none but Isaac Pierro/Miles Whitaker my clouds! ))) to ye, tracicle!!!
  • fie upon my employer's filter for making me view this on a remote computer via x-forwarding. and bannannas and peanuts to you for the nice pictures.
  • I think my fav was "maybe he's hiding." The sock puppet was pretty good though.
  • Gabe Swarr, who seems like a nice bloke, talks about this on his blog. Gregg Simkins appears to have painted Eeyore before. (In 'paintings', column 2 row 4 in the thumbs.) More stuff by Chris Roth, Bob Dob, and Love Ablan. (check out the Love Dolls - SFW)
  • Wow....talk about price gouging! $2550? Fageddit. "Here little Jimmy. Your crinkled paper, worth nothing (except to your mommy) inspired me to paint this picture, which is worth two thousand dollars." "What do I get?" "How about some gum?" "Yay!" ...and all was well in Artsyville.
  • those are...amazing. my favorite was Night Terrors. it took me several minutes to get. ...on preview, what ball point head said.
  • What a charming idea! Inspiration for both the artists and the kids. I like the "Situation Trial" too, it's both surreal and a pretty literal take on the childs work. WRT prices, the gallery blurb states that "a portion of the sales...will go to the...school" although I doubt that the students at an expensive Hollywood private school are exactly underpriviledged
  • Not to repeate myself, but I gotcher night terrors right here:
  • The Artist As Mad Scientist I always said it was them vizy'all artists whut ain't right in th' head.
  • Yes, TenaciousPettle, the monster engine is teh awesome and much truer to child-vision.
  • Thanks for the other links, Plegmund! Roth's work is definitely fun. Has he actually executed that immense mural in Chicago, or is that just a layout?
  • Nifty!
  • I obviously sounded like Mr. Crankypants, but I really do like the idea. Some of the final products are amazing. And the monster project...wow. The "brendon miller" posted just above is so dreamy. Fascinating.
  • My A.A. Milnean memory: the first poem I ever memorized. Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly Me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
  • The Four Friends Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow, Leonard was a lion with a six-foot tail, George was a goat, and his beard was yellow, And James was a very small snail. Leonard had a stall, and a great big strong one, Ernest had a manger, and its walls were thick, George found a pen, but I think it was the wrong one, And James sat down on a brick. Ernest started trumpeting, and cracked his manger, Leonard started roaring, and shivered his stall, James gave the huffle of a snail in danger And nobody heard him at all. Ernest started trumpeting and raised such a rumpus, Leonard started roaring and trying to to kick, James went a journey with the goat's new compass And he reached the end of his brick. Ernest was an elephant and very well-intentioned, Leonard was a lion with a brave new tail, George was a goat, as I think I have mentioned, But James was only a snail. --A.A. Milne
  • I am a James in a world of Ernests and Leonards. sigh
  • Very very awesome! And speaking of Neil Gaiman's blog, How to Wake Up is one of my favorite blog posts of all time.