A hilarious retelling of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. I hope I can follow the path these dark illustrators have walked, or at least use the sidewalk that runs alongside it."
Wyeth, Maurice Sendak, Arthur Rackham, Edward Lear, Gustav Dore and Tomi Ungerer. Of course, I'm influenced by other illustrators too, like N.C. It's a laborious process, but it's unpredictable and it keeps me interested and surprised. Then I go in with a fine brush and add details, lights and darks, etc. Usually I stop when the painting starts to look interesting. Sometimes I keep adding more and more layers until I've ruined the piece. I'm a big fan of artists who play with surfaces. Normally, it would be a mistake to combine two opposites like this and in fact it was a mistake the first time I did it, but I liked the results. This not only dries the oil instantly, but also causes a chemical reaction between the oil and the acrylic.
I paint on board, building up several thin glazes of the oil, sealing them between coats with an acrylic spray varnish. Actually, my work is rendered in oil paints. I think this is because it almost looks as if it was sprayed with paint with little dots of color and texture visible. "A lot of reviewers have misidentified my technique as airbrush or dyes or even egg tempera. Here, Scieszka's text is clever, savvy, and tabloid-quick, and Smith's stretchy-strange illustrations complete this funny, irreverent, thoroughly original tale. Could he help it if he had a bad cold, causing him to sneeze gigantic, gale-force sneezes? Could he help it if pigs these days use shabby construction materials? And after the pigs had been ever-so-accidentally killed, well, who can blame him for having a snack?Īs with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, (another stellar collaboration by Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith), children who know all the old stories by heart will delight in reading impudent new versions. He innocently went from house to house to house (one made of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks) asking to borrow a cup of sugar. Al Wolf was minding his own business, making his granny a cake, when he realized he was out of a key ingredient. Wolf explains it, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing was just a big misunderstanding. Did the story of the three little pigs ever seem slightly biased to you? All that huffing and puffing-could one wolf really be so unequivocally evil? Finally, we get to hear the rest of the story, "as told to author Jon Scieszka," straight from the wolf's mouth.
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