Graeme Base and Animalia :: Artists and Artwork, art

Structural frameArt Materials and techniquesGraeme tie-up uses air brushes, brushes, scalpels, pencils, water colours, transpargonnt ink, technical picture pens and some use of the computer.He mixes a lightness of text, sometimes with rhymed tongue-twisters and sophisticated language made up of stylized illustrations full of mirthfulness and details that challenge readers point of view. The book, Animalia contains over 1,500 objects including things such as food, musical instruments, and characters as well as the featured animal for to each one letter. Base likewise includes an image of himself when he was young as an wasted for the watchful eye on every page.Line, tone, shape, colour, texture and patternGraeme Base uses lines of different thicknesses to make the drawing look more realistic. He also uses different tones of colours. An example would be from Six Slithering Snakes Sliding taciturnly Southward, the main snakes body and tail contains at least four different colour s. He also repeats the way the books are place in the library.Symbolic MeaningsThe Lion symbolises royalty, the books symbolise wisdom and the palmy fur and mane of the lion symbolises power (because gold is usually worn out by rich people).Cultural FrameGraeme Base was born in 1958 in Amersham, England, and moved to Australia in 1966 at the age of 8. he is straight an Australian Citizen but when he came to Australia, he said that he mat like an outsider. He went to Swinburne Institute of Technology and studied the diploma of Art. At school, the only way to impress his friends was to study and learn visual arts. He grew fond of flora and fauna and screwd the land (which is where he got his ideas from). He then enjoyed poetry and wrote his first picture book My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch. Graeme Base says that much of what he uses in his illustrations is a result of his childhood. Everyone is influenced by their childhood. The things I write about and illustrate come from a immense range of inputs, from the earliest impressions of a little child, others from things I saw yesterday and still others from completely out of the blue, though no doubt they owe their arrival to some stimulus, albeit unconscious. I have a great love of wildlife, inherited from my parents, which show through in my subject matter, though constantly with a view to the humorousnot as a contemplative device but as a reflection of my own jolly happy nature.