Eric Carle is an American writer/artist of children’s literature who published many best-selling books around the word in 60 languages. The most famous of his books would be The Very Hungry Caterpillar which sold over 50 million copies.
Born in 1929, Carle comes from a German family that moved to the United States to live a better live till his father was drafted into the German army during World War ll. Living in Germany was very dramatic for him.
He completed his schooling in Germany where he studied graphic art (graduated 1950). Then he returns back to the United States making it his goal to be an artist in New York City.
The New York Times was his first job as a graphic designer. He was living his New York dream till he was drafted into the US army during the Korean War.
Later returning back to his same job to leave it to focus more on his own art. Eventually he published his first book in 1967 called “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”.
Carle made over 70 books independently using his own unique technique which made him very well known.
To create such beautiful art work as Carle you need to use acrylic paint, tissue paper, pencils, glue, crayons, and colored pencils.
He paints acrylic paint on top of the tissue paper, which made his art have more textures. Where he can make a lot of unique patterns.
Carle used a lot of different techniques to make textures and shapes in his artwork.
The themes of his stories/books are drawn from his knowledge and love of nature. He wants his readers to learn something about the world around them with amazing art and wording. He wants the readers to understand their feelings, creative knowledge and growth about the world around you.
Now at his age of 90 years old, he won many awards for his amazing books and just had an 50 years celebration at The Frist Art Museum of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” .
Work Cited – https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eric-Carle / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Carle / https://www.carlemuseum.org/artists/eric-carle / https://fristartmuseum.org/calendar/detail/eric-carles-picture-books