Tales of the brothers Grimm

Even the most fascinating book becomes even more beautiful and attractive if it was illustrated by a brilliant artist. It is such a book that we open the new series "The artist draws a fairy tale".
The tales of the Grimm brothers are well known to both adults and children. But this collection is exceptional. Boris Arkadievich Diodorov - one of the most noticeable illustrators of the children"s book of our time - created drawings for twenty -three tales of the Grimm brothers in the style of an old engraving with coloring.
The exquisite and painstaking work of the artist causes endless admiration. At first, he made drawings with black mascara on a very thick coated paper, then it scratched the contours of figures and objects with a scalpel and clarified the details. Zincographic forms were made from the drawings. The artist painted black and white prints from these forms with watercolors.
In this book, Boris Arkadievich appears in many hypostases. He is a reader, a subtle -sensing text, and a brilliant artist, and