All good things must come to an end and unfortunately, this is true for the Terrible Yellow Eyes blog which was set up by artist Cory Godbey as a tribute to that much loved childrens book classic Where the Wild Things Are. This was one of my most favourite stories as a child and the facinating drawings and illustrations of the brilliant Maurice Sendak have imprinted themselves on my mind, recently awakened by the release of the film in the UK, December 2009.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Terrible Yellow Eyes is a collection of illustrations and artworks contributed by a number of extremely talented artists in honour of Maurice Sendak’s 80th birthday. The blog has been a great source of inspiration to me, through learning of new illustrators and immersing myself in their beautiful work, to the memories it has evoked in me of first discovering this enchanting book.
Terrible Yellow Eyes as created by Cory Godbey
Where the Wild Things Are is a piece of genius. The plot is simple, yet spellbinding. The central character is Max, a young boy dressed in a wolf costume who one evening, is sent to bed by his mother for making mischief. In his room, his imagination creates a wild wood and vast sea in which he sails to the land of the Wild Things. Here Max is confronted with monsters with scary yellow looking eyes but he manages to conquer them by staring at them and not blinking. He is the made the King of All Wild Things and has a fabulous time cavorting with the beasts. Soon, however, he is homesick and returns to his bedroom to find his supper waiting for him, still hot!
Maurice Sendak still wild at 80
I have just purchased an old 1963 hardback version of the book from Amazon to relight my Sendak fire. I hope one day to read this to my children and introduce to them the magic of this story and wonder of such imagination. This website features so many talented artists and awesome pieces of work, I am including some of my favourites here.
Woodland Wedding Save The Date Cards
I have just been taking a look through some of my initial woodland wedding theme ideas and found these save the date cards. I designed them when I first had the idea of a Midsummer Night’s Dream Wedding. They would also compliment an outdoor wedding, preferably in the woods or for a wedding with a fairytale theme.
These save the date cards were one of a few concepts and I came up with at the beginning and I had lots of fun researching woodland wedding stationery. I thought about designing matching wedding invitations and complimentary stationery such as place cards and table settings before I changed my own wedding theme to the sea.
I am thinking that they would have been nice printed on a vintage card stock or handmade paper containing flecks of plants or flower petals, possibly keeping the design as a monotone colour or maybe adding some extra shades of a woodland palette.