Your grandmother always told you not to venture near this dark, ruined house on the edge of the forest. At first she wasn't too particular why you shouldn't but when you asked her some years later she told you this tale of legend and superstition. I am interested in these stories and I know others will be as well.
About the "Tell me a Story"Project:
The project's goal is to collect enough fascinating, known and unknown folk tales from all over the world to fill an illustrated book. Instead of taking stories from books the project aims to 'collect' these stories directly from the source: the people, you. On a regular basis Isabella will illustrate a submitted story. He or she who submitted this story will receive a free print of the illustration. Eventually all these illustrations combined, of course accompanied by the original stories, will be published in a book. Isabella will update her blog regularly on the progress of the "Tell me a Story" project.
How to participate in the project:
Participating in the project is rather simple: Send your story! Multiple submission allowed. As not all stories will be illustrated sending in more then one story will enlarge the chance of one of them being illustrated. If your story is chosen you will receive a free print. Next to this, both story and illustration will be published in the book. Please state beforehand if you want your name and hometown to be mentioned or rather wish to remain anonymous.
What am I looking for:
Every story connected with folklore is welcome. This can be anything: maybe there is a haunted cemetery or mansion in your home-town, or you remember this fantastic story your grandmother told you when you were young. Is Bloody Mary haunting your mirror as well or do you know another urban myth which circulates at your school. Personal encounters, rituals or superstitions are very interesting as well. This story can be traditional or modern as well. I am looking forward to every story you will surprise me with, and not only me, the readers of the blog as well.
A few 'rules' and notes:
When you are ready to submit the story send an email to info@isabellasart.com, or send me a note.
There is no word limit or anything but don't be too comprehensive, I intend to reserve a single page for each story.
Please keep in mind this is no writing-contest, I am looking for folk tales, not stories made up.
Everyone who submits will receive an answer, it might take a few days as I can be fairly busy now and then, but you will get a note in return from me for sure!
Once I have picked a story to illustrate, you will receive a small 'contract', nothing fancy, nothing scary just to have everything sure for the both of us.
About Isabella: Isabella is a Dutch artist/illustrator who is hugely interested in...., no passionately about, portraying folklore, myths and legends. The "Tell me a story" project is thus something very close to her heart.
It’s finally there….. my new blog! A blog devoted to my art and love for folklore.
As some of you might have noticed I have been absent for quite some time as I have been working on setting up this new blog. It was my greatest desire to create a place where I could talk about all things related to folklore and now it’s finally there, although in an embryonic phase….
Here I will write about my adventures as an illustrator of myths, legends, superstition, folk songs and all other things related to folklore. You will also follow my work as a writer and film maker. But most importantly you will find here the most beautiful collection of folk stories and folk songs.
As I have just started this blog there is not much to see yet, but in the upcoming weeks you will be able to read articles such as: ‘The Shadow as a manifestation of the soul; and it’s association with life and death.’ (An article I have written about superstition concerning shadows.)
I will show my latest drawings and tell you all about the legends behind the illustrations.
Besides this you can see my first try outs as a film maker. For the short films I make I use really old techniques, so that should be really neat. And yes, my film productions are related to myths and legends as well.
I hope I will be able to make beautiful things and to preserve these old stories and songs, which I love so much and want to share with others.
As I can use all the support I can get, I hope many of you will follow my blog. It’s really hard working in this branch as there is a minor interest in folklore, especially in the Netherlands, where I live. So every support would be more then welcome!
Thank you! Isabella
Ps: This blog will still remain as well and I will keep everyone updated about all my new projects and products. But for detailed information, please visit my new blog!
I know I haven't been around much lately. I was so bussy with custom orders and christmas sales that I simply did not have the time to update my blog or to visit other people's blogs. Which I missed because I really enjoy to read what keeps people bussy.
But I do have some good news to share with you all. I was the cover artist of the November issue of Les Bonnes Fees! For those who are not familiar with it, Les Bonnes Fees is a free e-Zine publishing fiction, retellings, art, poetry, and non-fiction relating to our broad topic of fairy tales and folklore.
Because I was the cover artist of this month, they also interviewed me. So for those who are interested the interview can be found here
Below you can see the result of the drawing I made for their current issue, which was all about Cinderella.
If you would like to know more about Les Bonnes Fees just click here
Here you can find everything about their projects, blog and also their e-zine.
As I have said in a previous blog post here on EF, I am the new guest
columnist from Dante's Heart (A journal of Myth, Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Fantasy) and today I have posted my first column.
In
my first post I am featuring the work of a very talented Steam Punk
artist going by the name Winona Cookie, so make sure to take a look!
We
all know here what a compliment can mean, so if you like her work
please don't keep it to yourself but share your love by leaving a
comment for the artist at Dante's Heart blog!
This week was very exciting for me because I was expecting to receive my package with laser-cut shadow puppets! Because of the huge success of my shadow puppets I was no longer able
to make them all by hand. Don’t worry, I will still make and sell
hand-cut shadow puppets but next to this I also have a range of
laser-cut shadow puppets, based on the most popular designs I have
sold so far. Here are a few examples:
There are 6 different designs available at my shop and a nice thing
about these puppets is that they cost less! Of course originals are
still available at my shop as well.
Next to this a new series of drawings will arrive at my shop
tonight, based on the famous story of Peter Pan. Here is one of the
drawings in which Peter Pan learns the children how to fly:
Also, I am currently selling some of my original art at my etsy
shop. At this moment I am selling a very special series of original
drawings called the Bird Adventures. Every drawing in this series
depicts its own “bird-story”, showing the life of bird-men and
bird-ladies. The drawings are made on old sheet music taken from a 1932
lessons book on how to play the violin.If you are curious please take a
look at my etsy shop here: link
In the next few weeks more originals will arrive, so if you are
interested keep an eye on my work. If you don’t have an Etsy account
but would like to purchase one of my original works, just contact me
and we will work it out!
