Remembering artist, animator and designer Mary Blair born on this day in 1911. #maryblair #marybrownrobinson #disney #disneyland #itsasmallworld #aliceinwonderland #peterpan #cinderella #songsinthesouth #epcotworldshowcase

I pissed off my group by saying the talk we just went to about #MaryBlair was not as well researched as I had hoped. They asked but apparently they were looking for a stock response that I just don’t have instead of an honest assessment. Managing neuraltypical expectations can be frustrating and some days I don’t even want to try.
#ActuallyAutistic

So I didn’t realize this talk isn’t about mid-century design in general, it’s about #MaryBlair. Even better 😊

The Walt Disney Family Museum announces Mary Blair: Mid-Century Magic, a special exhibition exploring the creative vision and achievements of one of Walt Disney’s most imaginative and renowned designers and art directors. #Disney #JohnCanemaker #MaryBlair #MaryBlairMidCenturyMagic #WaltDisneyFamilyMuseum

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/walt-disney-family-museum-celebrates-mary-blair-in-new-exhibit/

#MaryBlair

This concept artwork created by Mary Blair for Walt Disney's Cinderella depicts the Fairy Godmother transforming a pumpkin into a magnificent coach. The Fairy Godmother's gifts allow Cinderella to go to the Ball, but they only last until midnight. #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTale #Cinderella #FairyGodmother #MaryBlair #WaltDisney #Disney #ConceptArt

🎃 When a Film Doesn't Look Like Its Concept Art
by @ani_obsessive
The #MaryBlair problem + news:
Coraline
Yeisson García
Legends of the Soyuzmultfilm Studio
Kazuya Kanehisa
The Glassworker
Hiroshima Animation Season
Procreate in Australia
#animation
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-a-film-doesnt-look-like-its

Karlheinz Stockhausen about to get into a tiny boat to hear a delightful song about world peace! Not real but perhaps he did ride this ride at some point. Mary Blair’s finest work with one of Germany’s finest avant garde composers! If you are unaware of the art of Mary Blair explore her lovely art! This pic was lifted via the NoWave Facebook group and I’m not certain who created it.

#KarlheinzStockhausen #Disneyland #ItsASmallWorld #MaryBlair

Concept art for the Mermaid Lagoon sequence of Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953) by Mary Blair. #WyrdWednesday

#Disney #MaryBlair #Mermaid #PeterPan #Art #ConceptArt

Remembering artist, animator and designer Mary Blair born on this day in 1911. #maryblair #marybrownrobinson #disney #disneyland #itsasmallworld #aliceinwonderland #peterpan #cinderella #songsinthesouth #epcotworldshowcase

Peak mural is peak. #MaryBlair

🏔️ Learn About the Magic of Mary Blair, an Illustrator Who Helped Define Early Disney Films
by @brwnpaperbag at @mymodernmet
#MaryBlair #illustration #ConceptArt #Disney

https://mymodernmet.com/mary-blair-animator-disney/

@Curator

1 • I identify as "Illustrator".

2 • I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, but everything I do begins with paper & pencil. I have to work things out on physical paper before I take it digitally. My feeling is that if I can't make an image "come alive" on paper, I'm not going to be able to do it on screen.

3 • #AlfonsMucha, #MaxfieldParrish, #MauriceSendak, #MaryBlair, #AlHirschfeld, #RichardBernstein, #WilliamMorris, #CharlesSchulz, #DanDeCarlo, #LyndaBarry, The #HernandezBrothers.

4 • Empathy. Taking time for kindness. That multiple feelings can coexist, not cancel each other out. Things can be cute and scary and funny and sad and sexy all at the same time. We are not our bodies, we are not our limitations. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - #OscarWilde, LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN

5 • Sometimes it's just a line or curve that I can see in my mind, and, after a struggle, I'm able to express it in a physical form all the world can see.
Sometimes it's when my art points someone in the direction of music that makes their life better.
Sometimes it's when I get to work with other creators and feel part of something.
Any doors that have ever opened for me in life, it was my art that opened the door.

@duckweed
The restored Alice In Wonderland is terrific! Beautiful, hand-drawn animation: the fantasy sequence with the playing card soldiers is iconic.

With Eyvind Earle's midcentury style and color inspiration from the incomparable Mary Blair, 1959's Sleeping Beauty is worth watching over and over.

#AliceInWonderland
#SleepingBeauty
#EyvindEarle
#MaryBlair
#Disney

Alice in Wonderland (1951) rabbit hole scene concept art by Mary Blair. #AliceInWonderland #disney #maryblair

Alice in Wonderland (1951) concept art by Mary Blair. #AliceInWonderland #disney #maryblair

Ah man, RIP to #RollyCrump, #Disney legend and then some. #Disneyland looks/feels the way it does in large part because of what he brought to it and what he did to help translate the work of others, especially another legend, #MaryBlair. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-03-13/rolly-crump-dead-disneyland-designer

From Tokyo Disney. If you don't like It's a Small World, you don't like Mary Blair and that just ain't right.

#Japan #MaryBlair #Disney #xp

My blog has been woefully dormant for a few months. But a research deep dive inspired the most recent post. Oh midcentury illustration… how I love you!

http://www.melaniecordan.com/post/my-love-affair-with-midcentury-illustrators

#midcentury #midcenturyillustration #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #AleksanderLindeberg #MaryBlair #UPAstudio #illustrationhistory #animationhistory #illustrationblog #amblogging

Good mail day with the arrival of my Mary Blair five legged goat from Lake Buena Vista Historical Society 🙌🏻😌 #maryblair #fiveleggedgoat #disneyscontemporaryresort #waltdisneyworld #disneyhistory