Margaret Tarrant

‘The Fairy Way’ – MAS 831 – (scanned from print). Date: circa 1920s

Margaret Tarrant is a British illustrator known for her popular illustrations of fairies, which are often detailed and lively.
I find her use of colour to be really nice, and she sets the tone within her pieces by using it. While some of her pieces are bright, and seem to radiate spring, some of her other pieces take on a more muted, pastel palette.
Many of her detailed, larger pieces have really nice composition that draws the viewer in.

I really dislike this as piece as I ran into a lot of issues surrounding the hair and face, and I was unable to properly fix them. I do like how the dress and plants came out, but I think the issues overshadow the positives. I used watercolour and coloured pencils for this

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