THE AWD XL COLLECTION
Caurette Editions is sooooo happy to announce a partnership with Ashley Wood: two large format (30 x 42 cm / 11 x 16,5 inches), hard cover volumes, each introducing a hundred drawings in their original size!
If you want to know what AWD stands for, it’s easy: Ashley Wood Drawings
In these art books, you will mostly find black and white pieces, and some in colour, all in Ashley Wood’s inimitable style, combining grace, sensuality and humor.
I think the larger size provides the art with more presence and honesty. […] These drawings owe a heavy debt to Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, as well as Japanese Shunga prints. I hope my drawings extol my love of the female form, just as theirs did.
Certain nuances and details are much more visible in these larger formats. The drawings presented here have not been retouched after being scanned. So you can see their qualities and … their faults, whatever they may be.
I firmly believe that art must deliver a message to its viewer. The relationship between the image and the viewer is paramount. Well, I’ll stop here, because there’s no need for me to write you any testimonial or plea. I hope you enjoy your visit to my world!
I had a lot of fun drawing all this, and I hope you will too, as you flip through the pages!
AWD XL BLACK
“I think the size of this book gives its contents both more presence and more veracity (…). Of course, these drawings owe a great deal to Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, as well as the Japanese Shunga. I hope they sing my love of the female form as much as the masters were able to do before me.” Ashley Wood.
AWD XL RED
“Being able to share my ink drawings again in AWD XL RED (the follow on from AWD XL BLACK) is an amazing privilege!
From the printing to the wonderful paper, this hard cover book really shows off my ink drawings in it’s 30cm x 42cm HC format. Many also open the door to my drawing process in their un edited forms, no computer fixes, exactly the same as they look on the original paper… except one I turned red and the ones I tinted the page, but let’s not worry on that! Ashley Wood.
AWD XL RED
Features
Hardcover albums large format: 30 x 42 cm
Red cloth-backed, with hot stamping
100 pages of incredible illustrations
Printed on beautiful Fedrigoni 170g deluxe paper
Reinforced packaging (to guarantee the book’s protection)
ISBN AWD XL Black : 979-10-96315-88-8
ISBN AWD XL Red : 978-2-38289-123-0
Price: 100 €
AWD XL RED
AWD XL RED
Ashley Wood
Never heard about Ashley Wood? Allow us the pleasure of a small introduction: illustrator, painter,concept artist, comics writer, he worked as a freelance artist as well as for numerous prestigious clients like Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics.. etc. But don’t think that drawing is ‘all’ he can do! He also worked on well-known video games such as Metal Gear Solid by Konami, on movies (and tv shows), clothing lines and even better, a lot of great toys (Underverse)
Let’s end this list by saying that two of his stories are currently being adapted for the screen. I am talking about Popbot and World War Robot (bought by Disney and directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, no less!)
With such a background, Ashley Wood won a lot of awards: Spectrum Gold Award (twice), Award of excellence for illustration, Eisner Award, Eagle Award (trice), Designer Toy Award – Artist of the year 2011, etc….
AWD XL RED
AWD XL RED
Discover AWD XL BLACK by leafing through it and watching a presentation video
To give you an idea of what to expect when you open AWD XL BLACK, here’s a 3-minute presentation video
and an extract from the first 20 pages of the book.
