Christina Huynh original illustrations for children's book 'Grandma’s treasured shoes' by Coral Vass

PXD 1554

fonds

December 2016-May 2017

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

9662280

17 watercolours - pencil, ink, gouache - 27 x 52 cm or smaller
24 drawings on 16 sheets - 6 pencil on tracing paper, 16 pencil on paper and 2 watercolour on paper

Christina Huynh is an illustrator and artist based in Western Sydney of Vietnamese heritage. She is an award-winning artist who produces large scale murals throughout Sydney and NSW and works with local councils and schools, focusing on art-for-purpose and place-based projects and collaborations.

'Grandma’s treasured shoes' is Christina Huynh’s first book. It tells the story of a little girl escaping the effects of war, using the shoes she wore as a theme. The story is inspired by the experience of refugee families fleeing war-torn countries during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

This collection contains original illustrations by Christina Huynh for children's book 'Grandma's treasured shoes' written by Coral Vass. It also includes two watercolour, pencil and ink samples sent to the publisher prior to Huynh’s commission, as well as preliminary pencil drawings and drawings on tracing paper.

Original watercolour illustrations:
Folder 1
1-2. [Grandma has oodles and oodles of shoes],
3. [Walk to the park shoes...]

Folder 2
4. [But her favourite shoes are her worn and torn shoes...]
5. [They're old shoes...]
6. [Once they were village shoes..../Childhoo play shoes]

Folder 3
7. [Till one frightful night. She needed to flee...]
8. [They were fearful shoes...]
9. [Trembling shoes, teary shoes]

Folder 4
10. [At last she climbed aboard a small fishing boat...]
11. [Weeks and months went by...]
12. [They were strange shoes...]

Folder 5
13. [Red shoes, green shoes...]
14. [Ballet shoes, busy shoes...]

Folder 6
15. [Grandma has oodles and oodles of shoes....]
16-17. [But high on a shelf, snug in a box...]

Preliminary drawings and sketches:
Folder 7
1-6. Pencil drawings on tracing paper
7-22. Preliminary pencil drawings, comprising 9 leaves with 16 pencil preliminary drawings (some single sided, some double)
23-24. Watercolour sample drawings:- 'Shoes imagination beginning & end', 'earthy colour schemes', double sided

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Christina Huynh
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Christina Huynh

Vass, C., & Huynh, C., 2019, Grandma's treasured shoes, NLA Publishing, Canberra, ACT.

Titles based on corresponding page text in published book

Dates based on information supplied by the artist