Despite her strong association with fantasy, Craft's intense, obsessive attentiveness to every facet of her subject matter can sometimes make her distinctive works seem science-fictional. Among other awards, she also received the Spectrum Grandmaster Award in 2001, an unusual honour for an artist whose genre career had only spanned two decades, and a World Fantasy Award in 2011. She won Chesley Awards for her cover for McKillip's Song of the Basilisk ( 1998), a richly detailed portrait of a woman playing a stringed instrument, and a Spectrum Award for her cover for Tanith Lee's Biting the Sun ( 1999), an unusually coloured image of a woman plucking an apple from a tree. Fairy Tale Books Fantasy Artist Childrens Book Illustration Les Arts Beautiful Paintings Cinderella, Kinuko Y. But she can also offer surprising imagery, like her 1990 cover for Brian W Aldiss's The Malacia Tapestry ( 1976), showing a coastal town set against a mountain range that resembles a sleeping dragon. Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets. Even Craft's occasional covers for sf novels, like Patricia A McKillip's Moon-Flash ( 1985), have the ambience of fantasy, as that cover shows a young woman rowing down a stream past exotic creatures observing from the shore.

She initially provided her distinctive artwork for diverse publications, including magazines like Time, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, but she came to focus more on children's books and book covers after 1980.Ĭraft is noted for her extraordinarily intricate and boldly coloured paintings, almost entirely featured on Fantasy novels typical covers foreground a beautiful woman against an elaborate, colourful background. Craft Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2000 Hardcover with Dust Jacket First Edition, First Printing. After receiving a BFA from a prestigious Japanese art school, she moved to America to obtain further training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, remaining in the city first to work for several studios, and then to launch a career as a freelance professional in 1970. Charles Perraults Cinderella With Pictures By Kinuko Y. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices.

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