#helquist

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Brett Helquist has recently put up his cover illustration for The Bad Beginning to buy as a print from his Etsy shop. As per his description: "The large size [print] is very close to the size of my original art".

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This is my 24th birthday gift to myself. It’s just gorgeous. I will cherish it as one of my most prized possessions.

I also put the classic BB in there for scale, because it’s a much bigger book than I thought! :o

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Art by Brett Helquist. From Lemony Snicket’s The Lump of Coal.

We wish you all a warm and safe Christmas Eve and festive season.

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Artwork for The Loathsome Library box set containing books 1 to 6 (publ. 2005). By Brett Helquist.

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bhelquist (Apr 1, 2019): Count Olaf from one of the Series of Unfortunate Events box sets. [’The Gloom Looms’]

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(1) The Birds film poster, France

(2) The Vile Village cover art by Brett Helquist

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Most people who have survived a storm at sea are so shaken by the experience that they never want to speak of it again, and so if a writer wishes to describe a storm at sea, his only method of research is to stand on a large, wooden boat with a notebook and pen, ready to take notes should a storm suddenly strike. But I have already stood on a large wooden boat with a notebook and pen, ready to take notes should a storm suddenly strike, and by the time the storm cleared I was so shaken by the experience that I never wanted to speak of it again.

Lemony Snicket, The End.

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If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police - you may have noticed a type of painting known as a triptych. A triptych has three panels, with something different painted on each of the panels. For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping.

I am a writer, and not a painter, but if I were to try and paint a triptych entitled The Baudelaire Orphans' Miserable Experiences at Prufrock Prep, I would paint Mr. Remora on one panel, Mrs. Brass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all day.

-- Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

Art by Brett Helquist.