The Bird King: An Artist's Sketchbook

By:

Shaun Tan

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Walker Studio

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Award-winning artist Shaun Tan brings his story-making to life in this beautiful sketchbook, now with brand new content. A treasure trove of sketchbook pages, jottings, doodles and drawings from life reveal much about Shaun's personal style and themes in this inspiring collection. Extensive brand new content includes pencil sketches for upcoming books, development work for Eric and cover design ideas for Cicada, along with new oil paint landscape sketches and character studies. This is a must-have for any Shaun Tan fan, particularly art and illustration students, as well as any lover of story and the creative process.

Author Biography:

Shaun Tan grew up in Perth and works as an artist, writer and film-maker in Melbourne; he is best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through dream-like imagery. The Rabbits, The Red Tree, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the graphic novel The Arrival have been widely translated throughout the world and enjoyed by readers of all ages. Shaun has also worked as a theatre designer, a concept artist for Pixar and won an Academy Award for the short animated film The Lost Thing. In 2011 he received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden, in recognition of his services to literature for young people. His most recent books are Rules of Summer, The Singing Bones, Tales from the Inner City and Cicada.

Release date Australia

October 3rd, 2019

Author

Shaun Tan

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Illustrated by Shaun Tan

Interest Age

From 10 to 12 years

Pages

176

Series

Walker Studio

Dimensions

160x216x22

ISBN-13

9781406389241

Product ID

30432971

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