#balbusso twins

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Anna and Elena Balbusso’s illustration for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.

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The Five Daughters of the Moon • Series: The Waning Moon (#1) • Anna and Elena Balbusso, illustrators • Leena Likitalo, author • 2017 • McMillan Publishers

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The Witch by Anna + Elena = Balbusso Twins Cover art for Angela Slatter’s Of Sorrow and Such

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Anna + Elena Balbusso (Balbusso Twins) - L'Elue (cover for Gallimard Jeunesse France)

[Source: balbussotwins.myportfolio.com / ©Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins]

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Menewood cover reveal!

The cover of MENEWOOD!! It is *gorgeous*. And some tidbits about what to expect from the book, coming 3 October. I. CAN'T. WAIT.

Cover of Menewood: A Novel by Nicola Griffith (MCDxFSG 3 October, 2023). Cover art by Anna and Elena Balbusso. Cover design by Na Kim. Image description: Richly coloured cover of a novel, Menewood, by Nicola Griffith, painted predominatly in blue, gold, black, and red. The image is of a young woman—Hild, the protagonist of the novel—standing tall against an ominous backdrop of medieval warfare.…

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Anna & Elena Balbusso (also known as the Balbusso twins) • Cover for Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale

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Our personal tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Portrait by ©2022 Balbusso Twins. Painting technique mixed media: gouache, watercolor, pencil, collage, pen, digital.

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Book Covers of Note, October 2023

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Mary I, Queen of England by The Balbusso Twins

Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir

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Not me changing my background already.

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Anna and Elena Balbusso’s illustrations for the Old English epic Beowulf.

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Anna and Elena Balbusso - The Fairy Flowers, Narcissus, inspired by H. C. Andersen 2008, painting

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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.

There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale | Illustrated by Balbusso twins

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©2017 ANNA+ELENA BALBUSSO TWINS ART

Art “unaccompagnated minors” for #Milionidipassi

Charity Auction Exhibition for Doctors without borders @MSF_ITALIA

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The Balbusso twins

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Menewood as Objet d'art

Menewood is beautiful. It's not just the lush gorgeousness of Anna and Elena Balbusso's cover art, but also the interior design, and—extremely important but often neglected—how the physical object handles.

Menewood is beautiful. Yes, yes, authors often say that about their books—we’re just like new parents who beam fondly at the squalling, squashed turnip-looking thing in their arms and declare fatuously, “Isn’t she beautiful!” And, okay, yes, I am totally biased, but also, Menewood really is beautiful! It’s not just the lush gorgeousness of the Anna and Elena Balbusso’s cover art, but also the…