Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn based Australian artist. She has illustrated over twenty books for children, including Ruby's Wish (Chronicle Books, 2003) which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, Meet Wild Boars (Henry Holt, 2005) which won a BCCB Blue Ribbon Picture Book Award and the Founders Award from the Society of Illustrators, Big Red Lollipop (Viking, 2010) which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book for 2010, and the ongoing Ivy and Bean series (Chronicle Books), which has over a million copies in print.
Blackall has collaborated with many notable authors, including Aldous Huxley, Judith Viorst, Jane Yolen and Meg Rosoff.
Her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Town & Country and many others.
Her latest project, http://www.missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com Missed Connections, which began as a blog in early 2009, is an ongoing series of paintings based on real, anonymous messages posted online by lovelorn strangers.
Like a message in a bottle, a "missed connection" classified (usually posted on a website) is an attempt however far-fetched, by one stranger to reach another on the strength of a remembered glance, smile, or blue hat. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless, funny and sad. Ms. Blackall, award-winning illustrator of "Ruby's Wish" and "Big Red Lollipop", has turned some of the most evocative (or hilarious) of them into exquisite paintings. "Missed Connections" is a collection of illustrated love stories. There's "We Shared a Bear Suit." "If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine." "Hairy Bearded Swimmer." Each is told in the shorthand of a "missed connection," and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolour. The paintings are extraordinary: delicate yet full of feeling, each springing from one little detail of the post into a fully imagined world. Each brings the voyeuristic pleasure of watching love at first sight, and the pleasure of watching an artist discover a fresh new way to tell a story. And not all the connections are missed. Hidden in the book are three pieces that conjure up the magic of love found.
小时候,我有过一个志向,要记住我看过的每一张人脸。 你看,警察们在茫茫人海中寻找一个罪犯,当他们一筹莫展的时候,我拨开人群,大步走上前去,揪住一个人衣领,大声说:就是他!某年某月某日某地你做下了什么罪行,你长着一张什么样的脸,而这张脸就是你的罪证! 警察们心...
評分很早在豆瓣首页看到推荐,由于封面不够吸引人不像绘本,所以一直没留意。最近看到友邻在读,于是出于好奇及对绘本的热爱,就买了。 首先这个插画师的作品我非常喜欢,很早就搜集了一些,她的画有一种独特的气质——忧郁都市的感人情怀。 这本书还是可以买,从...
評分人海里,过客匆匆。 你,我,他,不经意间,变成了孤单的灵魂。 走在陌生的城市里,期待街角的相遇; 行在熟悉的故乡中,想见见曾经的面容; 很多人离开你的生命,转个身,消失, 也有很多的人走进你的生活,问个好,开始一段奇缘。 兜兜转转间,仿佛失去了什么,又得到...
評分小时候,我有过一个志向,要记住我看过的每一张人脸。 你看,警察们在茫茫人海中寻找一个罪犯,当他们一筹莫展的时候,我拨开人群,大步走上前去,揪住一个人衣领,大声说:就是他!某年某月某日某地你做下了什么罪行,你长着一张什么样的脸,而这张脸就是你的罪证! 警察们心...
Couragegeous enough to post the story but not courageous enough to say hi in the first place. Warm and tender. Anyway, love it.
评分雖然不是最喜歡這種插畫風格,但伴著“尋人啓事”的故事還是感覺很棒很溫馨啊
评分中文版書名翻譯得不錯;然而本著有原版決不看譯本的原則,還是收瞭一本。實話是有些失望,其實就賣個概念,某些小片段有些動人,有些更像是靦腆的約炮。插圖不是我特彆喜歡的風格。
评分I like a happy ending as well as the next person, but I love the mystery and the uncertainty and the electric current of possibility. —— 但比起瞬間的小火花,作者也更偏嚮廝守的幸福,所以最感人的反而是那個「曾經滄海難為水」的故事
评分IT'S LOVELY.
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