Of all the illustrations I did, The Wild Swans is the one most borrowed by bloggers and website owners. I'm flattered. But I'll be flattered more if the people who shared this image asked permission from me first - or better yet, from the real copyright owner, Reni Roxas - before posting this image to their sites. When I searched the internet, I discovered that when you googled Arnaldo Mirasol, around fourteen websites will appear with the Wild Swans as adornment. Here is the list of those websites: Sacred Familiar, Watercolordreams, indigodreams, sosuperawesome, Dangerous Prayer, illustratosphere, Altared Spaces, Illustrated imaginarium, Enlighten me, In The Land Of Lux, The Suffolks, Pinterest, traveling ghost, and papertigers. Of these. only the last two made it a point to obtain my permission.
(Shown below are cropped screenshot samples of those websites.)
So, Reni Roxas, publisher of Tahanan Books, must have chosen right when she picked The Wild Swans to add to her collection - instead of The Little Mermaid (below), the cover art for the book Once Upon a Time, which many consider as my best work. Reni said that she wants the Wild Swans because it can stand by itself - that is, it doesn't need any manuscript to define or explain it. or give it significance. Many agreed with her, because admirers of The Wild Swans see it as not just a "mere illustration": they almost always describe it as like a surrealist painting. Which is a compliment in my opinion, because I consider surrealism as the most cerebral of all art movements or styles.
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| The Little Mermaid's "own website" |
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