Friday Featured Art: The Frog Prince

This illustration by Maxfield Parrish was featured on the cover of a 1912 magazine. We saw a copy of it in an antique store the other day. It's called the Frog Prince. I really like how whimsical his paintings are.

Night Lights

The other day, we saw an episode of SpongeBob called Night Light, and it made me think about night lights. Of course, SpongeBob used about a million of them, and it turned into a fiasco. I think I would like one. You see the fine art ones everywhere, and I like this Maxfield Parrish version. I also really liked this rabbit one that I found on Etsy. In the daytime, it looks like a normal lampshade, and at night the bunny and his tree appear!

Dream Garden

I'm back! I really had good intentions about posting while we were gone, but Tony and I had too much fun in Philly, and then I was ill pretty much the whole time we were in Utah visiting our families. (I ate some really bad English chips and when my stomach finally felt better came down with a cold...) Nothing like ringing in the new year in the bathroom! (I know, gross.)

Anyway, while we were exploring Philadelphia, we went to the Curtis Center to see the Dream Garden glass mosaic mural. It was a collaboration between the Louis Comfort Tiffany studios and Maxfield Parrish. Fascinating and so beautiful.

Maxfield Parrish

Every so often the library at the University will get a bunch of new books. They leave them on a shelf for a little while before putting them away. One day I came across a book about the illustrator Maxfield Parrish. It was so fascinating. I especially enjoyed his children's book illustrations and his fantastical landscapes. These two make me think of home (Utah).