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This Artist Illustrates His Sweet Childhood Memories So Well The Results May Move You To Tears
Childhood... Although everyone has very different memories about this significant period of their lives, there‘s no doubt it‘s full of magic. Magic of discoveries, your first friends, pets, first family trips, the smell of a fresh pie baked by Grandma... And so much more!
Omario Brunelleschi is an English-Italian freelance artist who is illustrating exactly those sweet childhood memories that bring back the nostalgia of those heartwarming moments. Scroll down and go back in time with these delightful creations!
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Ah ... I so wish this were a childhood memory of mine! It’s full of joy! There were eight of us and my Dad worked all the time. When he was around, he couldn’t allow himself, or us, to relax and simply play. It’s the thing I regret most about my childhood — and why I play now.
This reminds me of a similar memory I have. In a hot summer day, my cousin, myself, and some of our little rascal friends went to an orchard with cherry trees, to steal those ruby sweet treats. We got caught and chased away, but never in my life have I tasted cherries as good as those. It's as if I can still feel the sun burning on my skin and the smell of the dusty roads, 30 years later.
Now days, parents are accused of child abuse if they let their kids run free. I'd leave the house at 7 in the morning and wouldn't come inside until dinner. I had a thousand things to do as a kid!
When kids actually used to play outside. And the days where mum would give you a backpack filled with sandwiches and an apple or two and say, "make sure you're home by dinner". I never had a watch, how did we all know when dinner was?!
I would so be the one to not make the jump and fall and ruin the WHOLE thing.
I love this picture even though my bike riding memories leave a lot to be desired 😏
Our daughters were born in the UK and grew up on an island on the west coast of Scotland ... This is their/our childhood in a painting. I 💕 Scottish rain!
Welp this is the last picture, put my phone down, drink a glass of water, take a deep breath, and go outside. Just one more time, my childhood... i want to feel you
This looks so idyllic, I want to enter that world. And now I'm crying because I rarely ever had something like this.
You aren't alone at all! My husband goes on and on about his great childhood. He really doesn't get that most of us didn't!
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“At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it”
Awww, I recently asked my old time friend this, "Did we know that childhood was over?"
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I can relate to so many of these...previously forgotten memories have surfaced, looking at these beautiful illustrations. Thank you. <3
Wow, author of those pictures has really an incredible skill at depicting the right feel of the pictured scenery. Great work!
Make me smile too - I had a semi-rural childhood - last house on the road out of town. All the fields streams and hilllsides around my house were my playground(not our land) I knew all the animals by sight and they knew me. No dense dark mossy patch of woodland too scary. Shame I didnt appreciate how wonderful it was at the time
Honestly I haven't seen lighting used this well in any artwork in a long time. Great work.
Well that sure did work for me. Scenes from my own childhood flashing back from 55~60 years ago. And the emotions too. And my current emotions. (Damn you!) Props for the beautiful art; the light, the soft colours and simplicity.
It makes me feel like this is calm before a storm and something tragic happens.
So cinematic. Would be a refreshing break in style for Disney, Pixar, et al.
If all children had this blessed a childhood, the world would be a happier place!
Mystic moments that run through our hand like water...but the memories are most beautiful.
I have rarely seen illustrations with less soul. Absolutely boring and fake.
As my children grew up I tried to allow them to live the childhood I was allowed to live. Different times means different adventures, but the growing never ceased. Even as an adult, I was able to be a child again with my children. I hope and pray that I get to do it a third time with grand children. This was a great walk down memory lane.
Looks nothing like my childhood, did anyone really have a childhood that looked anything like that? Seems like an unrealistic, weird, Disney dream.
same, not everyone has this. I don't really remember my childhood and when I do it is like a PTSD flashback
Load More Replies... This looks so idyllic, I want to enter that world. And now I'm crying because I rarely ever had something like this.
You aren't alone at all! My husband goes on and on about his great childhood. He really doesn't get that most of us didn't!
Load More Replies... “At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it”
Awww, I recently asked my old time friend this, "Did we know that childhood was over?"
Load More Replies... I can relate to so many of these...previously forgotten memories have surfaced, looking at these beautiful illustrations. Thank you. <3
Wow, author of those pictures has really an incredible skill at depicting the right feel of the pictured scenery. Great work!
Make me smile too - I had a semi-rural childhood - last house on the road out of town. All the fields streams and hilllsides around my house were my playground(not our land) I knew all the animals by sight and they knew me. No dense dark mossy patch of woodland too scary. Shame I didnt appreciate how wonderful it was at the time
Honestly I haven't seen lighting used this well in any artwork in a long time. Great work.
Well that sure did work for me. Scenes from my own childhood flashing back from 55~60 years ago. And the emotions too. And my current emotions. (Damn you!) Props for the beautiful art; the light, the soft colours and simplicity.
It makes me feel like this is calm before a storm and something tragic happens.
So cinematic. Would be a refreshing break in style for Disney, Pixar, et al.
If all children had this blessed a childhood, the world would be a happier place!
Mystic moments that run through our hand like water...but the memories are most beautiful.
I have rarely seen illustrations with less soul. Absolutely boring and fake.
As my children grew up I tried to allow them to live the childhood I was allowed to live. Different times means different adventures, but the growing never ceased. Even as an adult, I was able to be a child again with my children. I hope and pray that I get to do it a third time with grand children. This was a great walk down memory lane.
Looks nothing like my childhood, did anyone really have a childhood that looked anything like that? Seems like an unrealistic, weird, Disney dream.
same, not everyone has this. I don't really remember my childhood and when I do it is like a PTSD flashback
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