Gustav Glows with Gold
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€18.50
Gustav Glows
with Gold is a creative
non-fiction book for children aged 4 – 8 years. Gustav Klimt, a famous Austrian
artist, is fascinated by the power of glittering gold leaf to enhance the
colours, patterns, and form of his artwork. Inspired by the beauty of Byzantine
art and by his own father’s intricate work as a goldsmith, Gustav loved to use
gold leaf in his paintings. Delicately thin sheets of gold leaf are always difficult
to work with, any whisper of air and they take flight. Gustav’s studio is filled with glittering, glowing fragments of gold leaf,
caught by the air, or by his breath, they settle on his clothes, hair, beard,
and even on the fur of his many beloved studio cats. A shy man, Gustav wanted nothing
other than people to love his glowing golden creations, and to be inspired by
them, and they certainly did.
Kathy Creamer is an
award-winning writer and illustrator of many children’s books. Her work has
been published by Oxford University Press, Reed International, and many other
publishing houses. Kathy has also written award-winning biographical stories
for adults and has created storyboards, written content, and animation for
digital productions, as well as toy and puppet designs for educational
companies. Patricia
Ward has a B.A Design and is an emerging children’s book illustrator, who is
currently working on her sixth children’s book. Patricia is an art director and
illustrator whose work spans television, magazines and publishing. Her
illustrations have appeared on cd artworks, magazine and book covers, in
television series and her animations have won awards both at home in Australia
and in New York in the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards.