Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, with lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Scholastic Book Services. I loved this book as a young girl--the perky heroine inspired many of my "little world" daydreams, which were filled with "leaf" horses and pipe cleaner people who lived in twig lean-to's built underneath the shrubberies in my back yard. More publication information to come.

The works of classical illustrators are are seriously interesting, though rather challenging for a vector conversion project. Converting watercolor, line-work, wood-block print, and other styles to vector leads to some fairly serious hair tearing on occasion. Maintaining as much of the feel of the original pieces as possible while ensuring that the conversions are print-ready sometimes takes a lot longer than expected. Reading the books these images are from, however, is always a joy. If you need a reading list of utter loveliness, these illustrators and authors are well worth your time, and as each book is no longer under copyright you can often find versions of these books online quite easily. The Vac hopes you enjoy the artwork, and suggests that searching for “Wetdryvac" artist's name here on Redbubble without quotes will find the other pieces in the set if you’ve landed here via a particular piece of artwork. -Wetdryvac / Wetdryvac.net

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Many artists have created works based on The Ring Cycle but without doubt the best known, and most popular, are the 64 plates and 2 frontpiece sketches Arthur Rackham created for the two volume gift editions of The Ring of the Nibelung in 1910 & 1911. First editions of the original collections, with 'tipped-in' plates…