More Diaz Art

Wednesday, June 3

Above are three of David Diaz's illustrations for Who's That Baby?  I'm not sure if it will be clear in the photos, but each has inspired the painted walls in one part of the house.  The Grandpa illustration hangs in the 'best' guest bedroom, where the walls are pearly blue-gray. The "Baby in a Basket" illlustration hangs in a golden hallway, adjacent to a wine red wall (not seen in photo).  The "Hold a Baby" illustration (also known in our house as 'Flying Lady') decorates a pale yellow wall adjacent to a coral one.

Here is the text for the poem that accompanies the 'Flying Lady' illustration:

"Hold a Baby"

Hold a baby 

every day:

dip and swing

and swoop and sway.

Hold a baby

every day:

that will sweep

your woes away!

Diaz Art

Tuesday, 2 June, 2009

Sorting through photo images today, I came across a file of David Diaz's artwork for The Castle Corona.  How I love these images.  There are about a dozen paintings repeated throughout the book: at the beginning of each major section, and at the beginning of each of the fifty-six chapters.  Some are full page and some are half-page.  Beautiful, bold colors.  I'm going to frame several of these.  

We framed six of his illustrations from Who's That Baby? when we renovated our house, and we based the house's entire color scheme on his artwork.  I'll gather a few photos of those for tomorrow's blog.

Stunning, stunning art!