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Art Passions: Fairy Tales are the Myths We Live By Latest Featured Book Art Tile Home First Time Here? Stories Site Map FAQ Contact Fairy Tales are the myths we live by Arguably, Art Passions is the oldest Fairy Tale Art website on the net. Art Passions began primarily as a tribute to artists and illustrators whose works I grew up with. I encourage you to explore this site and learn about the works of Arthur Rackham , Gustave Dore , William Morris , John Bauer , Aubrey Beardsley , Edmund Dulac , Virginia Frances Sterrett , Kay Nielsen , Adrienne Segur , Warwick Goble , the Preraphaelites and others. Site Announcements (Worth reading) Most Recent Additions Site Contents by Artist First Time Here? Latest Additions Many, but not all of the stories are now mobile friendly. New mobile-friend additions: Robinson Crusoe The Cat that Walked by Himself All of the Alice in Wonderland chapters are now mobile friendly. I also put up some bigger and better images. Earlier Holiday Blog Post: The Krampus and the Yule Goat Cometh . More first-level pages made mobile friendly. Fixed most of the subdomains so there should be fewer error pages. Error pages should be a little more helpful now. Gustave Dore Rime of the Ancient Mariner is now mobile-friendly. Complete text of Coleridge's poem accompanied by 36 Dore illustrations. Added new images to Maxfield Parrish and Jessie M. King Books: Are you looking for The Fairy Tale Book with the Adrienne Segur illustrations? Don't spend $300 on the original (unless you want to). It has been republished as The Golden Book of Fairy Tales . Stories : Stories, fairy tales retold, and a little commentary are listed here: Stories , including the Princess and the Pea retold by XineAnn. McGraw-Hill is going to use this story in one of its textbooks so I am motivated to do more, as time allows. Pages to Color I've also added some of the black and white Anne Anderson illustrations from Grimms Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. These are suitable for printing out for children to color. Images are from The Frog Prince, the Snow Queen and others. These will focus on fine motor skills but are not so detailed as to be frustrating for elementary age children. Are these something anyone wants? If these are popular, write me and I'll do some more. News and Announcements Currently working on : I am making the site mobile-friendly while I check and things, in this order: First-level artist pages, Stories (so they can be read on tablets), site map, second-level pages of images, then everything else. There's some progress being made. Updating the artist pages, fixing broken links. All of that is tedious so I will add some new articles and retold tales while it goes on. I am working on fixing the links, after the move and making the site mobile-friendly. Expect things to break fifty ways to Sunday as this happens. Inlinks from other sites should work and the custom 404 (Not Found) pages that will help you get where you are going. If you are on a desktop, things should display okay. Mobile and tablet are going to be painful for a while longer. The Site Map should help and getting that current is a high priority. Also, I'm semi-retired now so I'll add some links to my tile and art print website and some recommended books and stuff to buy. I'll keep it not-in-your-face, though. Progress Meter : There are have been two problems, one overcome. First, the old hosting company implemented something called "CPU Throttling" that makes the site unavailable when traffic peaks on the server. I have moved Art Passions to another hosting company that doesn't do that. As in all moves, things break. Please be patient. Ideally, I'd have a dedicated server for Art Passions, but I need to either start selling more prints and tile for that to happen. Second, Art Passions is a pretty old website. Increasingly, site visitors are on tablets, not computers, so making the site mobile friendly is a big priority. Artist still in the queue : Florence Harrison (done but not up), Edward Detmold, Charles and W.Heath Robinson, Arthur Dixon. Next tasks : Verify Site Map and make mobile friendly, Free Fairy Backgrounds and Bookmarks and coloring pages for summer, stories to read, then the artist pages. First time here? Confused? Some places to start: Site Map (new and improved) Site Contents by Artist Announcements William Morris Page Latest additions Illustrated stories online Art Prints: Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Fables FAQ Do read before you contact me. Anne Anderson pages to download and color Search by keyword Alice in Wonderland Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde Robinson Crusoe The Real Princess and The Princess and the Pea Exposed Sebastian's Fairy Tale Scholarship (quiet since he's in school) How to color Ukrainian eggs (Psanky) XineAnn's Favorite Poems Cards, Postcards, Calendars What Else is Here... It's more than just a gallery. Artists : Some artpassions visitors who are also artists show some of their work here . Questions? I may have answered it in the FAQ . If not, you can write to me using the link at the bottom of this page. I can't really help you appraise art by these artists, or help you write a term paper that's due tomorrow morning. Resources : I try to keep Art Passions non-commercial, although there are some links to art prints and tile, and books. Since I'm retired, and Social Security does not go as far as you might think, I'll add a few more. Whatever resources I have for finding books or posters by these artists are listed in the FAQ and book recommendation / resources pages. Sets of art tiles, murals, and accent tiles by these artists are available via William Morris Tile , and many of these illustrations are available as prints are available at Artsy Craftsy . If you don't find a print there, ask and I may be able to get it for you. Also, if you do follow any links to Amazon, you are supporting the Children's Healing Art Project, whose teacher lead over fifty hours of art adventures for children and their families at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Knight Cancer Institute, the OHSU Pediatric Neurosurgery Clinic and Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center. Viewing the images : Not all images can be displayed inline on the artist page. Follow the link to see a showcase image on its own page. A few of these may open in a new tab or window, but I think I have removed all of these. News! : For a few years now, I have not been able much in the way of new images due to hotlinking of images (explained in the FAQ and have even had to remove some of the most popular victims of hotlinks. However, I think I have solved this, so you will find me adding more art and artists now. I'm really happy about this. You are still more than welcome to post images from Art Passions to your blog or Pinterest or Tumblr page. No problems there. Suggestions : Where I know of historical sites on the artist, I have linked to those. If I have missed a great site, please suggest a resource . I really value your comments and feedback. Problems : Sometimes things go down, sometimes I am working on an area of the site and it's offline. So if an artist you are looking for is suddenly not available, check back in a day or two. Please do not webstrip the site. It makes me have a bad day. Copyright questions? You can find the current state of this issue on the Frequently Asked Questions page. Site Contents by Artist Adrienne Segur This is really where Art Passions started You will find Adrienne Segur's illustrations to The Fairy Tale book by Marie Ponsot. Also: My Book of Cat Stories , The Snow Queen , Ib and Christine , and The Nutcracker . Most recent : Added all the illustrations to L'Oiseau D'Or. John Bauer John Bauer's famous trolls and illustrations to nordic myths and tales. Most recent : More than 50 new illustrations and paintings from Bland Tomtar Och Troll, Till Sagolandet, and later paintings. Edmund Dulac Edmund Dulac's illustrations grace such hard-to-find classics as his...