In
two posts at Animalarium, Laura turned me on to
Illustrarium, a website for Lithuanian children's book illustrators (Lithuania was the 2011 Guest of Honour at the Bologna Children's Book Fair).
Rooting around on Illustrarium, I found
the page for Mikalojus Vilutis (born 1944) and asked him if I could feature his work.
The illustrations in this post come from
Fables by Vytautas Landsbergis (Kronta, Vilnius 2011) and
A Cake. For many years before illustrating books and working digitally, Vilutis worked in silkscreen/serigraphy and he's known as a master of the method (he's taught at Vilnius Academy of Arts since 1989). I will soon feature some of those earlier works.
(This post went live well before it was supposed too...some of you may have seen it in embryonic form —oh blogger, how I (didn't f*cking) miss thee. Part 2 coming soon.)
(A search reveals that
Monster Brains linked to a
Russian page on Vilutis way back in 2007.)