“Forget Me Not” will start your “Claire-Wendling-addiction” once and for all

Tamara d'Amato
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Tamara d'Amato
Tamara A. d'Amato is an Italian illustrator and comic book artist. She studied Illustration, Bande Dessinnée and Creative writing  in Naples and Rome. She has published...
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One of the beloved French living cartoonists and illustrators is Claire Wendling. She went to the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, where some of the most notable and award-winning figures in the field of French comics and animation have been educated. Due to a fantastic and free imagination, Claire Wendling became famous for her aesthetic taste and extreme anatomical features. Every illustrator wants to know what makes her work so beautiful and talented. Anyone who responds “No” is lying! In an interview, she mentioned that one of her talents is a unique way of looking at things. She studies the anatomy and behavior of animals by sitting on the couch and watching naturalistic documentaries. She plays with her pencil in a simple, inexpensive sketchbook after absorbing them to avoid drawing poorly on expensive paper. Once, Claire said: “-I start drawing one little thing, then from time to time I see the context and add more things to it, and the drawing becomes bigger and complex.”
Claire Wendling's sketch - Artguilds

Claire Wendling’s sketch

Claire Wendling: “Forget Me Not”

  One of the most important books for all collectors of Claire Wendling is “Forget me not.” Claire Wendling’s book are frequently sold out and inaccessible for quite a while, yet for this situation, you can find your duplicate in the connections we left under our book trailer. Claire’s rigid book cover features one of her sketches to perfectly illustrate the book’s fantastic content. The shining shades of the cover appear differently in relation to the warm white pages inside, that encase Claire Wendling’s enchanted drawings. The book is bound in the standard manner. The drawings in this collection are very extensive. The following is the recurring theme in each collection by Claire Wendling: animals and fairies The book has 162 drawings and 16 unfinished sketches and roughs, all of which were completed between 2014 and 2016. Each drawing is a creative expression of this beautiful, one-of-a-kind artist, as shown in our book trailer.  

Claire Wendling “Forget me not”- Some pages of the book

Claire Wendling’s Artbook: A closing thought

One of the most recent collections of Claire’s sketches is presented here. Each volume is magical, and if you think you’d like more of her work, that’s fine; you aren’t the only one! Here are some titles from other magical collections, some of which are nearly impossible to find: Iguana Bay 2.0, Desk ( which you can find at this link), and Daisies: Affogato all’amarena.
If you like this book, I recommend you also check out another magical art book:Gustav Klimt: Drawings and Watercolors
Here are direct links for Claire Wendling “Forget me not” Amazon (affiliation)
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Tamara A. d'Amato is an Italian illustrator and comic book artist. She studied Illustration, Bande Dessinnée and Creative writing  in Naples and Rome.
She has published a comic book story about neurodivergent love in a symbolic key in the “Clessidra” volume with the independent publishing house "Attaccapanni Press,"  illustrated the children’s book "Il Grillo Gordon e Karasu Piroetta", and self-published the small children book “Perchè il gallo canta?”, she also collaborated as a visual development artist.
Her speciality is pencil and watercolor illustration, which she loves to reproduce both traditionally and digitally.  
She also curates four - handed projects with the “Magnifico League of Artists Association” in her city to encourage people to start and still drawing, and she's actually working on her blog “The fairy Teapot” to help people start drawing.
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