Every actor dreams of making his own film, and every children's illustrator- write your book. Or vice versa - every children's writer I would like to illustrate my own book. Be that as it may, some people are damn good at it.

We at Little Stories understand how important it is that the writer’s idea and the artist’s vision resonate - otherwise the result will be falsehood, which children will recognize only in this way. To prevent such sadness from happening, we carefully write out every character and every scene in the artist’s assignment - even the movements and facial expressions of the characters. If you follow our pages on Facebook And In contact with, then you know how serious everything is with us.

Today we will show the creativity of children's writers who illustrated their books themselves.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Everybody knows " The Little Prince"and a recognizable romantic image - a boy with straw hair stands on a small ball of his own planet. And this, meanwhile, is an illustration created by the author himself.

Exupery was a test pilot, war correspondent, received a number of literary prizes for the “adult” novels he wrote, but we will forever remember the image of this young philosopher:

Sven Nordqvist

The care and love with which the Swedish writer draws illustrations for his own books evokes genuine admiration. Just look at the amount of detail in old Petson's workshop!

You probably don’t even have to read Nordqvist’s books at all, but just endlessly look at these stunning drawings with a million details. And be sure to look for the little Findus kitten on everyone!

Lewis Carroll

Scandinavian writers probably have a special gift for illustration. So, if you didn’t know, Tove Jansson herself invented and drew the famous Moomins (and all the drawings in her own books).

In the near future, her books began to be adapted for the theater, souvenirs and character toys based on the writer’s illustrations were produced. This gave Tove Jansson huge income, and soon made her one of richest people Finland. The writer was even able to buy her own island, where she subsequently hid from annoying journalists.

Joanne Rowling

The same "Tale of the Three Brothers" that appeared in last book series about Harry Potter, and four more tales about magic are included in the book “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” which the writer personally illustrated. Maybe she didn’t do it as colorfully as Professor Tolkien, but we should give her credit.

A scene known from books and films: three brothers meet Death, who has been outwitted:

John R.R. Tolkien

Today, Tolkien’s books are no longer so striking in the scale and elaboration of the world, but the writer became the founder of classic fantasy and in his time made a real revolution.

The professor's illustrations, whether light watercolors or pencil sketches and still look amazing today congenial Middle-earth:

The writer worked in detail not only on the languages, culture, maps and landscape, but also sketched the characters.

Beatrix Potter

Beatrice was originally an illustrator, and only then took up the art of writing. I must say, she does both fantastically well.

Cressida Cowell

The well-known cartoon “How to Train Your Dragon” would not have become so charming if it were not for the visual style laid down by the writer herself. Her illustrations are naive, childish, but incredibly charming.

Do you recognize Hiccup and the Night Fury?

Tomi Wingerer

The writer’s first book, “The Adventures of the Hryllops Family,” with very stylish and funny author’s illustrations, was published in Russia only in 2010, but has already managed to win its fans.

Chris Riddell

Illustrations for “The Emperor of Absurdity” and other works

Chris Riddell is not only a famous British illustrator and author, but also a political cartoonist for the London newspaper The Observer.

An illustration for the Air Pirates series, co-written by Chris and another writer, showing the local world called “The Edge”:

Conclusion

As we see, the multifaceted talent of children's writers is often cramped within the confines of literature alone. This is for the best - after all, the author’s own drawings provide the most reliable reflection of his plan.

As always, our little illustrated (and animated!) stories can be downloaded here:

Today I want to talk about modern children's book illustrators. When I was preparing material for this article, I noticed that contemporary artists create very beautiful and high-quality illustrations, but mainly for middle and older children school age. You can often see beautiful illustrations for Andersen's fairy tales, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and Hoffmann's fairy tales.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find modern Russian artists, creating for kids. Those that could stand on a par with the names - Suteev, Charushin, Tokmakov, Miturich, Konashevich... But, let's hope that this temporary gap will soon be filled with new bright names.

And now we present to you the top 7 best modern children's illustrators of the national school.

Igor Oleynikov

This one is extraordinary talented artist known not only as an illustrator of children's books, but also as an excellent cartoonist. He took part in the creation of such wonderful cartoons as “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “Caliph the Stork”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” and many others, which were loved by viewers of all ages.

Surprisingly, one of the brightest Russian children's artists does not have a professional art education(which he greatly regrets, by his own admission). He was born in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, and graduated from the Institute of Chemical Engineering. He began working at the Soyuzmultfilm studio as an assistant production designer.

Igor Oleynikov is the winner of various animated and book festivals. His illustrations are mesmerizing, enchanting so much that it is difficult to believe that he did not study at any art university.

The fairy tale “The Emperor and the Nightingale” by H.H. Andersen. Publishing house Azbuka-classics

Evgeniy Antonenkov

Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. For a long time collaborated with the Rosmen publishing house. He illustrated many books, including books by Yunna Moritz, Korney Chukovsky, Boris Zakhoder, Alan Milne, Sergei Kozlov and other authors.

“Bibigon”, K. Chukovsky

“Bibigon”, K. Chukovsky

“Lemon Malinovich Compress”, Yunna Moritz

“Little Muk”, V. Gauf

Vladislav Erko

Many mothers are probably familiar with the wonderful illustrations of this artist. My dream has always been “The Snow Queen” with drawings by Vladislav Erko. The artist was born and lives in Kyiv, has long and successfully collaborated with the famous Ukrainian publishing house “A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga”.

Book " The Snow Queen"with illustrations by Yerko was recognized as the best children's book in the United States in 2006 and was awarded the Andersen Foundation Medal.

Evgenia Gapchinskaya

A well-known children's illustrator who has earned the recognition of many parents with her creativity. Evgenia was born in Kharkov in 1964, and studied there. Now he lives in Kyiv and collaborates with the Kyiv publishing house “A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga”.

Galina Zinko

Ukrainian artist who illustrated many children's books, including fairy tales by Pushkin, Aksakov, C. Perrault, H. H. Andersen. Galina Zinko has been collaborating successfully with the publishing house Clever for a long time, so many modern parents I'm familiar with her romantic and touching style.

“The Pigeon Story”, A. Borovetskaya

“Bloshkins and Frew from Barakhty Bay”, A. Nikolskaya

“Bloshkins and Frew from Barakhty Bay”, A. Nikolskaya

Anton Lomaev

Born in 1971 in the city of Vitebsk (which gave the world Chagall and Malevich). He studied at the Academy of Arts (Repin Institute) in St. Petersburg, lives and works there, and successfully collaborates with a number of Russian publishing houses. He is a member of the Union of Artists.

Anton Lomaev is known for his bright, imaginative illustrations for children's fairy tales. Among my favorites are the magical illustrations for “The Little Mermaid” and other fairy tales by Andersen.

Illustrator Anton Lomaev. Fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”

Publications in the Museums section

Pictures from childhood

Guides to the world of children's literature, thanks to which lines that are still incomprehensible to the little reader acquire bright and magical images. Children's book illustrators who choose this path, as a rule, remain faithful to it throughout creative life. And their readers, growing up, remain attached to pictures from increasingly receding childhood. Natalya Letnikova remembered the work of outstanding Russian illustrators.

Ivan Bilibin

Ivan Bilibin. "Firebird". Illustration for “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf.” 1899

Boris Kustodiev. Portrait of Ivan Bilibin. 1901. Private collection

Ivan Bilibin. "Dead Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf." Illustration for “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf.” 1899

A theater designer and teacher at the Academy of Arts, Bilibin created a unique author’s style, which was later called “Bilibinsky”. The artist’s works were distinguished by an abundance of ornaments and patterns, fabulous images while strictly following the historical appearance of Russian costume and household items. Bilibin drew the first illustration back in 1899 for “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and Gray wolf" For forty years the artist turned to Russians folk tales and epics. His drawings lived on the pages of children's books and on theater stages in St. Petersburg, Prague, and Paris.

Boris Dekhterev

Boris Dekhterev. Illustration for the work “Puss in Boots”. 1949 Photo: kids-pix.blogspot.ru

Boris Dekhterev. Year unknown. Photo: artpanorama.su

Boris Dekhterev. Illustration for the work “Little Red Riding Hood”. 1949 Photo: fairyroom.ru

Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots and Little Thumb, heroes of Alexander Pushkin's fairy tales, received watercolor portraits from the light brush of Boris Dekhterev. The famous illustrator created “the strict and noble appearance of a children’s book.” The professor at the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov devoted thirty years of his creative life not only to teaching students: Boris Dekhterev was the main artist at the Children's Literature publishing house and opened the door to the world of fairy tales for many generations of young readers.

Vladimir Suteev

Vladimir Suteev. Illustration for the work “Who Said Meow.” 1962 Photo: wordpress.com

Vladimir Suteev. Year unknown. Photo: subscribe.ru

Vladimir Suteev. Illustration for the work “Sack of Apples”. 1974 Photo: llibre.ru

The illustrations, similar to frames from cartoons frozen on book pages, were created by Vladimir Suteev, one of the first Soviet animation directors. Suteev came up with not only picturesque images for the classics - fairy tales of Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov - but also his own stories. While working in a children's publishing house, Suteev wrote about forty instructive and witty fairy tales: “Who Said Meow?”, “Sack of Apples,” “The Magic Wand.” These were books beloved by many generations of children, in which, as you would want in childhood, there were more pictures than text.

Victor Chizhikov

Victor Chizhikov. Illustration for the work “Doctor Aibolit”. 1976 Photo: fairyroom.ru

Victor Chizhikov. Year unknown. Photo: dic.academic.ru

Victor Chizhikov. Illustration for the work “The Adventures of Cippolino”. 1982 Photo: planetaskazok.ru

Only the master to create touching images for children's books could move an entire stadium to tears. This is what happened with Viktor Chizhikov, who drew the Olympic bear in 1980, and was also the author of illustrations for hundreds of children's books: Viktor Dragunsky, Mikhail Plyatskovsky, Boris Zakhoder, Hans Christian Andersen, Nikolai Nosov, Eduard Uspensky. For the first time in the history of Russian children's literature, collections of books with illustrations by the artist were published, including the twenty-volume set “Visiting V. Chizhikov.” “It has always been a joy for me to draw a children’s book”, - said the artist himself.

Evgeny Charushin

Evgeny Charushin. Illustrations for the work "Wolf". 1931 Photo: weebly.com

Evgeny Charushin. 1936 Photo: lib.ru

Evgeny Charushin. Illustrations for the work “Children in a Cage”. 1935 Photo: wordpress.com

Charushin had been reading books about animals since childhood, and his favorite was “The Life of Animals” by Alfred Brehm. The future artist re-read it many times, and at an older age he went to a stuffed animal workshop near his house to draw from life. Thus was born an animal artist who, after graduating from the Academy of Arts, devoted his work to the design of children's stories about animals. Charushin's outstanding illustrations for Vitaly Bianchi's book were even acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery. And while working with Samuil Marshak on the book “Children in a Cage,” at the insistence of the writer, Charushin tried to write. This is how his stories “Tomka”, “Wolf” and others appeared.

Ivan Semenov

Ivan Semenov. Illustrations for the work “Dreamers”. 1960 Photo: planetaskazok.ru

Ivan Semenov. Year unknown. Photo: colory.ru

Ivan Semenov. Illustration for the work “Living Hat”. 1962 Photo: planetaskazok.ru

Creator of the famous Pencil and everything children's magazine“Funny Pictures” started with cartoons. For the sake of what he loved, he had to quit the Medical Institute, since he simply had no time to draw due to his studies. The artist’s first recognition from children came from illustrations for Nikolai Nosov’s funny stories “Dreamers” and “The Living Hat,” and the circulation of the book “Bobik Visiting Barbos” with Semenov’s illustrations exceeded three million copies. In 1962, Ivan Semenov, together with Agnia Barto, toured an exhibition of Soviet children's books throughout England. By that time, the artist headed the editorial office of " Funny pictures"and knew literally everything about children's literature and the life of Soviet children.

Leonid Vladimirsky

Alexandra Volkova

“In fairy tales, animals are like different people: good or evil, smart or stupid, mischievous, cheerful, funny", - Siberian artist Evgeny Rachev spoke about his work on children's books about animals. He received his first impressions of the animal world in the taiga, where he made sketches from life. His magical childhood impressions came to life in illustrations for simple stories: “Teremok”, “Kolobok”, “Cockerel - Golden Comb”, “Wolf and the Little Goats”. Thanks to Rachev’s imagination, fairy tales for the little ones have become an amazing fairyland, where if you meet a wolf in a caftan, you won’t be surprised.

AUTHOR OF BLOG: a fairy tale in the life of every person is a very important part of life. Anyone who did not read fairy tales in childhood did not know the feeling of complete happiness and harmony within and around himself. It would seem that we remember from the very beginning early childhood the authors of wonderful fairy tales who helped us grow, instilled the best moral qualities and a sense of high aesthetics of the world we were just entering. But sometimes we didn’t even know the illustrators - who they were, what their names were, when they lived, what era raised these wonderful artists. Well, maybe we knew Bilibin the illustrator, because our parents and grandparents knew Bilibin, who grew up reading wonderful books, for example, “Fairy Tales of Pushkin” with illustrations by this brilliant artist.
But few people mentioned or knew the illustrator Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev, except for families where someone was familiar with the subject of art history (Fine Art and Architecture), but, nevertheless, they tried to give books with his illustrations to their offspring, especially “born with a pencil in his hands” and dashingly scribbles on walls, magazines, books, drafts of dissertations or other works of parents and older brothers and sisters - there is such a malicious infant tribe. If this tribe, which grew up on Bilibin, Degtyarev, Suteev, did not part with a pencil while growing up, it itself began to look for and buy books illustrated by its favorite authors, “so that they would always be with me, then it seems that the world is in its place.” And all this happened in the “prehistoric era WITHOUT THE INTERNET.”

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin. Illustrations for "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"

And then the Internet appeared. It would seem - what a blessing! But no, no matter how you slip it into the infant race, which still dashingly draws everything in a row, but now not with harmless pencils, but with felt-tip pens and some other rubbish in the form of markers - their still favorite
books with fairy tales and pictures - the infant tribe equally produces, at best, something in imitation of Walt Disney and, basically, something in imitation of Japanese cartoons, so scary that even an adult with strong nerves becomes uneasy at a quick glance on the computer display in which these cartoons are viewed by infants.

Suteev Vladimir Grigorievich. Fairy tales and pictures.
In one of the posts that I posted a story about illustrations for fairy tales, called “VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR FAIRY TALES,” something like this. This wonderful post inspired me to tell you about my favorite fairy tales with my favorite pictures, the love for which has been carried through a lifetime by more than one generation of people who lived in the USSR and, later, in the Russian Federation. Today the story will be about the Soviet illustrator of children's literature, an outstanding graphic artist, Boris Aleksandrovich Degtyarev.

Illustrator Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev (1908-1993), soviet schedule, illustrator. People's Artist RSFSR. Laureate Stalin Prize second degree (1947).
B. A. Dekhterev was born on May 31 (June 13), 1908 in Kaluga. In 1925-1926 he studied in the studio of D. N. Kardovsky, in 1926-1930 at the painting department of VKHUTEIN. He worked at the publishing house "Children's Literature" (for 32 years since 1945) as the chief artist. In 1935-1937 - assistant to Professor A. I. Kravchenko at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, since 1948 head of the department of graphics at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. It can be said that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development of book graphics in the country. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Worked primarily in technology pencil drawing and watercolors.

B. A. Dekhterev was one of the first graphic artists who turned to illustrating books on topics of modern life. He illustrated and designed books by M. Gorky, I. S. Turgenev, M. Yu. Lermontov, A. P. Gaidar, V. Shakespeare, fairy tales by A. S. Pushkin (“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and Rybka”, 1951), Ch. Perrault (“Puss in Boots”) and others, fairy tales “Tom Thumb”, “Thumbelina”, “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood” (1949), “The Blue Bird” M Maeterlinck, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by G. Beecher Stowe, “Cement” by F.V. Gladkov, “How the Steel Was Tempered” by N.A. Ostrovsky. He also created a series of drawings on the history of the CPSU and drawings for books dedicated to the life of Soviet leaders: “Meetings with Comrade Stalin” by G. F. Baidukov (1938), “Children’s and school years Ilyich" by A. I. Ulyanova, "Shalash" by A. T. Kononov, etc.
B. A. Dekhterev died in 1993.

Writers illustrating their books (lesson 2)

Target: give students an idea of book graphics, its features. To introduce the work of writers who illustrate their works and their books, to achieve their recognition creative manner. To introduce students to the world of lines and colors created by artists, to teach them to see beauty, to raise their level artistic perception, enrich creative imagination, fantasy. Instill a love of reading.

Material and equipment: books with illustrations, TSO - presentation.

During the classes

Slide1. Epigraph.

“Reading is a second life”

Guys, do you know any writers who illustrated their books?

Students' answers.

Today you will learn a lot of interesting things about the work of these wonderful writers and artists.

Slide 2. I'm sure you've all known it since early childhood. Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin . He devoted all his creativity to nature. in the ancient northern city of Vyatka.

The boy grew up next to the taiga, and, of course, the house was always full of different animals. Zhenya carried his love for them throughout his life. He grew up, became an artist, and his drawings were populated by a variety of animals and birds.

Slide 3. Guys, what do you call an artist who draws animals? (Animal painter)

That's right, animalist, from the Latin word animal - animal. And Charushin depicted animals as, perhaps, no one before him. He observed animals, often visited the zoo and made many drawings from life. After all, in order to truthfully portray an animal, you need to study it well, know not only the appearance of the animal, but also its movements, habits and even character.

Soon his furry little animals appeared in the children's books of S. Marshak and V. Bianki - active, flexible, wary or trusting, and children immediately fell in love with them. Charushin especially liked to draw cubs of a variety of animals - wolf cubs, fox cubs, bear cubs, lion cubs, chickens, kittens.

Slide 4. Here are illustrations for S. Marshak’s book “Children in a Cage”. These drawings are one of best works Charushin (1935). Look at the giraffe, which, funnyly spreading thin legs and stretching out his long neck, he tries to reach the flower, exactly as in the poem by S. Marshak:

Picking flowers is easy and simple

Small children.

But to the one who is so tall,

It's not easy to pick a flower!

The child is not allowed to eat!

He ate this morning

Only two of these buckets.

Slide 5. Here, look at the amazingly touching bear cub. He is still so small that much of nature is unfamiliar to him. But he liked the raspberries.

Slide 6. And here is the surprised kitten Tyupa. He lived at Charushin's house, and he was nicknamed Tyupa because he moved his lips funny, as if he were talking. Guys, let's read this story. (Reading a story). Look at the illustrations for this story. How accurately the artist depicted a fluffy kitten - Tyupa hid, watching the butterfly, ears erect, eyes wide open. How much curiosity is in his gaze! You can't help but smile looking at him.

Slide 7. Who do you see in this illustration for the story “Forest Kitten”? (Rysenka)

Now the little lynx is very busy, what do you think he is going to do? (Jump)

That’s right, Charushin depicted the animal’s pose in such a way that we immediately understood that the lynx was preparing to jump. And to find out what happened next, you need to read the story.

Slide 8. Do you recognize this kid? (This is a wolf cub)

This illustration is for the story "Wolf". If you look carefully at the drawing, you can notice his frightened eyes, it seems that he is whining quietly. No, he is not capricious at all. He's just small. His mother wolf went hunting, and he was left alone, and he became scared. After reading the story, you can find out what happened to him later.

Slide 9. In the book “Big and Small,” Evgeniy Ivanovich tells you guys about how animals and birds teach their children to get food and save themselves (reading the stories “Hares” and “Woodpeckers with Chicks”).

Slide Meet me! This dog's name is Tomka. Do you think he is evil or good? (Students' answers)

The owner loves Tomka very much because he is an understanding dog. One hot summer day Tomka was taken hunting. It was very beautiful and fun on the small lawn: butterflies and dragonflies were flying, grasshoppers were jumping. I wonder if the dog Tomka will be able to catch someone during the hunt or not? And you can find out this, and about other adventures of this cute dog, by reading the stories “About Tomka”.

Slide 12. Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin worked a lot with children - he taught them to draw. His son Nikita Charushin, having become an artist, also illustrates children's books. His granddaughter Natasha also became an illustrator.

Slide 13. Charushin wrote, as if addressing his young readers: “Enter the world of nature! Enter attentive and inquisitive, kind and brave. Learn more, know more. This is why we exist, so that nature turns into a great homeland for you...

But the Motherland is the smell of pine and spruce, and the aroma of fields, and the creaking of snow under skis, and the blue frosty sky... And if all this cannot be expressed in the words of a writer, the artist’s brush comes to the rescue.”

Slide 14. So happily two skills, two talents – a storyteller and a draftsman – were combined in one person. And both of them are given to you - the children. It is not without reason that Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin's books have been translated into many foreign languages. And this is a symbol of well-deserved recognition in world children's literature. His drawings have been at exhibitions in many cities around the world - London, Copenhagen, Athens, Sofia, Beijing, Paris, etc. For outstanding services in the development of the Soviet visual arts In 1945 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

After graduating from school, he entered the Institute of Civil Engineering, where he managed to complete three courses before the war. In 1941, after completing military engineering courses, he was sent to the front.

Slide 38. He graduated from the war with the rank of senior lieutenant.

After the war, he entered the first year of the art department of the Institute of Cinematographers in the animation department, from which he graduated with honors.

Slide 39. He was sent to the "Diafilm" studio, where he drew 10 children's filmstrips, including "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1953) based on a fairy tale.

The drawn image of this wooden man with a sly smile has long won the love of children and has become a classic. It is used in cinema, theater, and serves as a model for making dolls. The image of Pinocchio has become firmly established in popular consciousness that few people think about who painted it...

Slide 40. In 1956, the book “The Golden Key or the Adventures of Pinocchio” was published with illustrations by Vladimirsky. And from that time on, the artist began to engage only in illustrating books for children.

Slide 41. Did you know that the striped cap and red jacket of Pinocchio were invented by Leonid Vladimirsky? After all, Tolstoy’s Buratino jacket is brown, and his cap is completely white. Leonid Viktorovich says that Pinocchio came to him in a dream and asked him to draw a red cap and a red jacket. In order not to “offend” either the writer or the hero, the artist had to make the cap striped. Entire generations have become accustomed to this type of Pinocchio.

Slide 42–44. L. Vladimirsky says about his drawings that they are something between a book and a movie. This is a filmstrip on paper. All illustrations are interconnected. He is, first and foremost, a cartoonist. Therefore, looking at the pictures, you can easily tell the plot of the book. Let's try…

Slide 45. Second famous work artist, which brought him national recognition - illustrations for six fairy tales by A. Volkov.

Slide 46. The first book, “The Wizard of the Emerald City,” was published in 1959. Since then, with drawings by Vladimirsky, it has been republished more than 110 times.

And it all started like this... After Pinocchio, the artist wanted to illustrate some good children's book and he went to the library and asked for something interesting. So Vladimirsky received a small green book “The Wizard of the Emerald City”, printed on poor paper and with black and white illustrations. Leonid Viktorovich really liked the book, and he decided to find the writer A. Volkov. It turned out that he lived in the next entrance. With A. Volkov, Vladimirsky created a color book, which was a great success. The book was simply impossible to get. People stood in queues at night to subscribe to it. The guys took them from friends, copied them by hand, and copied pictures. Vladimirsky keeps several such handwritten copies. And then letters came from children asking them to write a sequel. This is how this series was born. For twenty years the writer and artist worked in perfect harmony.

Slide 47. This is how the writer A. Volkov assessed the artist’s work: “I can admit that I was lucky: fairy tale characters, drawn by L. Vladimirsky for my books, have become close to millions of young readers. I now imagine the Straw Man Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Ellie and other heroes of my fairy tales exactly as the artist created them.”

Slide 48. The artist himself will tell us how the images of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were born: “I came up with a sheaf of hair - this is a good find. U American artists Baum's fairy tales "The Wise Man of Oz" The Scarecrow. They go from his destination. And I - from character. My Scarecrow is kind and cute. It was very difficult to “match” his and the Tin Woodman’s noses. The American Scarecrow has a hole instead of a nose. Of course, I was indignant and put a patch on it in this place. My Scarecrow is small and fat, the Tin Woodman is tall and thin. Based on the principle of contrast. And if one has a patch, then the other should have a long nose. I draw a long woodcutter sharp nose- it turns out to be an iron Pinocchio! It turned out to be very difficult to find the small round chip that you see on the tip of his nose.”

Slide 49. The artist also suffered with Arachne, the evil sorceress from “The Yellow Fog.” After all, according to the book, this is a rude, primitive giantess who released a yellow fog onto magical land. The writer did not like everything that the artist brought and showed. He said that this was not a sorceress, but Baba Yaga. Trying to “see” this heroine, Leonid Viktorovich spent days on the subway, making sketches, sitting at train stations for hours... nothing worked, all the wrong images! And then one day Leonid Viktorovich was climbing the stairs in his entrance, and a neighbor was walking towards him. And he realized - here she is Arachne! He immediately took up a pencil, drew it and went to the “trial” with Volkov. He liked it and the children saw it new book and a new heroine.

Slide 50-51. And for a long time and painfully, Vladimirsky searched for the image of Lyudmila from the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. He painted it for 40 years. And all the time I didn’t like something, I couldn’t find the final version. In the end, I decided that, first of all, Pushkin himself should have liked Lyudmila. The artist placed in front of him a portrait of Natalie Goncharova, the wife of Alexander Sergeevich, and, looking at her, finally drew that same Lyudmila.

Leonid Vladimirsky illustrated many fairy tales.

Slide 52. This is “Three Fat Men” by Yu. Olesha,

Slide 53.“The Adventures of Parsley” by M. Fadeeva and A. Smirnov,

Slide 54.“Defeated Karabas” by E. Danko,

Slide 55.“Journey of the Blue Arrow” by J. Rodari,

Slide 56."Russian Fairy Tales" and many other books.

Until now, we have talked to you about L. Vladimirsky only as an artist, but he also wanted to become a writer. Vladimirsky is very fond of the mischievous wooden boy Pinocchio and he depicted him many, many times, as soon as a piece of paper falls into his hand, his hand again and again draws a long nose, a mouth to the ears, a striped cap with a tassel... There was a whole folder of these drawings. The restless boy became bored in it. I wanted to get into a beautiful book, and as the artist himself says, he asked Pinocchio to compose a fairy tale for him about his new, very amazing adventures.

Slide 57. This is how the book “Pinocchio is looking for treasure” was born - a real children's thriller. And then the artist and writer Vladimirsky came up with the idea of ​​introducing Buratino to his other favorite hero, the Scarecrow. And how to do it? That's how.

Slide 58. a fairy tale in which he sent dad Carlo, the dolls and Artemon to the Magic Land in the Emerald City. When all the heroes met there, it turned out that they had a lot in common. IN a new fairy tale many miracles happened, which you will learn about by reading this book and looking at the magnificent illustrations.

Slide 59. Leonid Viktorovich is 87 years old, but he is full of energy and creative ideas. He dreams of making a cartoon based on his book “Pinocchio is looking for treasure.” He is one of the organizers of the All-Russian family club “Friends of the Emerald City,” which is now successfully expanding its activities. Vladimirsky has his own website on the Internet.

Slide 60. Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky – Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate All-Russian competition children's reading awards "Golden Key". In 2006, the artist was awarded the Order of Buratino: “For courage and presence of mind shown on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, for loyalty to the ideals of childhood, for creating the classic image of Pinocchio and works of art cultivating purity of thoughts in children, inner freedom and self-confidence."

Slide 61. Story about it talented person You can end it with his own poems in which he states: “Kindness will win.”

The final part of the lesson

Slide 62. Guys, let's remember which writers you met in class today, illustrating their books?

– Which of them can be classified as animal artists and why?

– Which of the writers and artists you already know is called “Russian Disney” and why?

– Which artist came up with the image of Pinocchio in the very form to which we are all so accustomed that we consider it classic?

– Which of them became the founder of a dynasty of children’s book illustrators?

– Name the artist who loved the heroes of the two (which?) fairy tales he illustrated so much that he decided to become a writer as well, in order to come up with a sequel in which all these heroes would meet and become friends (what is the name of this new fairy tale?).

Slide 63. Who came up with and drew a comic about Pif?

Slide 64. It took E. Charushin a long time to choose his “hunting assistant.” Who did he choose?

Slide 65. In front of you are cards with text. These are excerpts from famous work(what and who is the author?). And on the screen there are illustrations for these passages. After reading the text, match it with the heroine. What can you tell us about each of them? In what order do sorceresses appear in the book?

Gingema - ruled the Munchkins in the Blue Country, an evil sorceress.

Villina is a good sorceress, ruler of the Yellow Country.

Bastinda, the evil ruler of the Violet Country of the Migunov, was afraid of water.

Stella is the forever young good sorceress of the Pink Country of Chatterboxes.

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