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After years in Stockholm, New York, Copenhagen and Paris. The shop have now moved to Shenzhen, China.
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TOONY TIMES
The Silly
on a Pedestal.
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The Day's and Life of Tomas Andreasson.
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In 1994 graduation from the University in Gothenburg, Sweden. And I sended a letter to the great New York illustrator, Barry Blitt. I asked him if he sold any of his original artwork. I needed (and wanted) some good inspiration.
For reasons still unknown to me Barry told me that he did not sell any of his artwork but that he was open for a trade of artwork! For inspirational reasons I had made a habit of going to New York and met other great illustrators previous years. Among them, Peter de Seve and Guy Billout. |
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Humble as never before I came into Barry's house and studio. With pink cheeks and red ears I went through his drawers and I was amazed about the amount of drawings as well as the quality. I stopped looking when I discovered the sketch above. I asked Barry if I could have it and he said sure. I also got the sketch to the right. This was his second cover(I think) and by now it must be at least a hundred.
I went back to Sweden after a month in Manhattan and I brought with me the same Illustration board and pens and stuff. Oh, by the way, there was some kind of ink for reservoir-pens that you could blend with the black pelican ink and when you added the watercolor it blead and mixed the line real nice. It was later taken off the market, probably because it was environmentally bad.
I have framed the sketch, original and the print three times. Because I could not bring the whole thing to the new country... |
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On the right is the Exhibition-card when I sold all my originals from the Childrens book. I have never been much of a businessman but this was a low point even for me. Not because I didn't sell much (sold almost everything) but because the rental for the fancy Gallery took almost all the money from the sale.... |
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I later sended a copy to Barry Blitt. When he read the dedication(in Swedish) "Illustrationerna i denna boken tillägnas Barry Blitt." - (The Illustrations in this book is dedicated to Barry Blitt.) he commented: "Since I don't know Swedish I can only guess that it means something like 'Barry wishes he could draw as well as me.' " |
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| The Printed cover. Called "Upwardly Mobile" if I remember correctly. |
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"Bastu" means Sauna in Swedish and "Bastubor" means Tubas. And this giant woman was sick and tired of people coming into her shop to take a bath. The pig solved the mystery by tripping on the fallen letters when he stepped out on the sidewalk. |
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The book The Instrument Hunt is about some animals deciding to start an orchestra. Written by the witty Swedish authour Staffan Cederborg. Here the rabbit discovers a "gangster" that just forgot his violin on a park bench. The gangster told them to keep it because he really didn't need it, the case hover, that "he needed for something else." |
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And she gave the pig a big wet kiss on the trout. You can clearly see the influence of Barry Blitt's New Yorker cover. This whole story was part of my recent lecture at the Shenzhen University. The Power of Inspiration.
Tomas Andreasson, Shenzhen April 11, 2010. |
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The fat woman was delighted. Now she didn't have to deal with questions about Sauna's. |
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