Day 5: Marilee Heyer in Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children's Books

Marilee Heyer is the fifth illustrator featured in Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children's Books. You can read more about her at her website. Here's an excerpt:

Some of you may be familiar with my past work through my illustrated books and the Tamora Pierce book covers, which were all a joy to work on. As you see, my career has been long and varied. For the major part of this time I have worked in a detailed style using watercolors and colored pencil. I first used this technique on some creature paintings as portfolio pieces to take to Lucas Film to apply for work on “Return of the Jedi” (I did get work, too), many of which became the illustrations for my picture book, The Forbidden Door.

And now on to the illustrations:

From The Weaving of a Dream

From The Weaving of a Dream

From The Weaving of a Dream

From The Weaving of a Dream

From The Forbidden Door

Featured books:

 

Other books not featured:

   

The noncover images are property of the exhibition website.

Tam Lin: Modern Interpretations in Books

I have often debated adding Tam Lin to the SurLaLune site proper, but have not done so, especially due to the already great site at Tam Lin, although it doesn't appear to be updated these days. However, I wanted to share a list of Modern Interpretations similar to what I do on SurLaLune, adapted a little from Terri Windling's comments on the SMoST page as well as Wikipedia and my own ongoing list, so here goes:

Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

Red Shift by Alan Garner

Tam Lin by Susan Cooper

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

Winter Rose by Patricia Mckillip

An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton

Soul-String by Midori Snyder (no cover image)

The Queen of Spells by Dahlov Ipcar (no cover image) 

Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear

"Cotillion" by Delia Sherman in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

"Tam Lin's Lady" by Liz Lochhead in The Grimm Sisters and An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature and The Poetry of Scotland

Tam Lin by Jane Yolen

Burd Janet by Jane Yolen in Not One Damsel in Distress

Wild Robin by Susan Jeffers (no cover image)

"He Said, Sidhe Said" in Finding Magic by Tanya Huff

Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen by Sally Keehn

The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

The Nightwood by Robin Muller

"Tam Lin" in Book of Ballads edited and illustrated by Charles Vess

The Hawthorn Tree by Patrick Little (no cover image)

Feel free to add more in the comments.  I have edited this list several times today and have had it eaten in part by the server a few times.  I'm off to other projects now before I smash something...