![]() Farther on, when the king and queen discover the evil fairy's handiwork, the good fairy comes to ease their grief Craft portrays the fairy descending from gilded clouds, driving a chariot drawn by dragons. The backdrop is a dark forest, and the effect is properly otherworldly. In a new episode at the outset, for example, the queen meets a frog that predicts the birth of her daughter in the facing art, the queen, dressed in a diaphanous white gown, languidly loosens her hair ribbon, while the frog, brought forward by cunning attention to light and detail, waits to speak to her. Her husband Mahlon Craft's enhanced version of Sleeping Beauty affords wide scope for the artist's romanticism. So perfect are the Pre-Raphaelite details and gestures that it's easy to imagine Kinuko Craft's (Adventures of Tom Thumb) paintings hanging in a gallery. ![]()
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