Read the posts on more nominees 1here, 2here, 3here, and 4here (winner post to follow soon).
Øyvind Torseter, is an artist, illustrator, comic book artist and author, who lives and works in Norway (Listen to the pronunciation of his name via google here). He debuted as a children’s book illustrator in 1999, and his first as author/illustrator was Mister Random in 2002, the release of which led to an intense discussion surrounding intended audience (can’t find any articles, but would be interested if anyone else does!).
From the IBBY site: “The pictures in his books normally appear as illustrations to the text, often authored by himself, but he also plays and experiments with perspective, cut-out drawings and other effects, before photographing it all and editing it with computer-assisted graphics tools. His comic books are influenced by Surrealism and some other works show traces, hints and tributes to art, literature, film noir from the 1950s and other expressions. Torseter has also decorated several public buildings, and his art can thus be found in many places in Norway.”
I am particularly fond of the effects he creates with 3-dimensional paper techniques in some of his picture books, but to get a quick feel for the scope of his art, google images – WOW!
I recommended My Father’s Arms are a Boat, written by Stein Erik Lunde , illustrated by Torseter for Perfect Picture Book Friday – HERE
Read Maria Popova’s post (Brian Pickings) on The Hole – HERE
Love it! I really like mixed media, can’t wait to experiment.
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Right?
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I really like those 3D paper effects!!
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Inspiring, eh?
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I loooove his 3D works too! They’re like amped-up versions of Steve Jenkins’s art (which I also adore, but they’re much tamer). I read My Father’s Arms Are a Boat. Wow. (Tangentially, when I went to put in my review on Goodreads, I saw the freakin’ funniest review of that book…really, the funniest review I’d read in a while.)
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I’ll have to check that out!
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This type of 3-D art adds SUCH interest to illustrations. Thanks for making us aware of Oyvind 😀
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Glad to!
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Very nice! I love his graphic style.
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This kind of ‘research’ is fun!
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Like the 3-D effect. Very unusual style. I like it a lot. Sorry I haven’t commented much, but have been on vacation for two weeks.
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Go back on vacation! I ould like to enjoy it vicariously
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WOW = right!!
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Very cool 3D paper art. I love the google name translate link 😉
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I use google translate to spell check in German sometimes, though I don’t think they always get it right either. In any case it puts me in touch with all those languages, just a little bit. Love that!
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Yea my mom warned me about Google translate not getting things right – but it’s still fun and helpful! 🙂
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Your mom is the coolest!
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So so so good!
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If they don’t get these translated faster, I’ll have to take up Norwegian!
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