Making Pictures is a non-fiction title telling the history of making pictures from cave paintings to computer-generated art. I'm not artistic, but I've always been fascinated by art. When I was young, one of my favourite books was a big illustrated treasury of great artists of the past, which may be why my taste in pictures developed the way it did. I discovered from a very early age that I disliked the Picasso style, but loved the romantic approach of John Waterhouse. My fascination with art and artists has had quite an influence on my professional life. I've had characters who are illustrators, photographers, costume restorers, and portrait painters. I've also tried quite a few forms of picture-making myself. I've never been good at it, but it was fun. One of my favourite ventures was the free-form embroidery I did for years. I'd be doing it still if I hadn't got chronic tendonitis in both hands. Writing this little book back in the 1990s was great fun, and I was intrigued with the pictures the publisher chose as examples. Even Michaelangelo's David is there... displayed discreetly from the waist up!
Here's a picture of David being used as an example again - this time in floral art. My sister purchased this David second-hand and ritually humiliates him most years in an artistic capacity. Well, that's my opinion!
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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)
The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist. If you enjoyed a post, or want to ask about any of my books or my manuscript assessment service.
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