Night Fables

Illustration series
Night Fables is a series of illustrations built on flat silhouettes and bold two-colour contrast: black figures against saturated red, yellow and blue. Foxes, crows, wolves, horses and birds act out small nocturnal stories – a crow and a fox under the moon, wolves calling to a starry sky, birds stealing stars, a herd running in endless rhythm.

The work draws on Mediterranean folk art, ancient vase painting, linocut and woodcut printing, translating their graphic economy into a contemporary language. Each image is reduced to the essential, so that shape, rhythm and negative space carry the narrative.

Francesco Paternoster


Art Director, Illustrator and Educator. My practice moves between design and image-making, combining branding, lettering and illustration with a curiosity for new tools and traditional techniques.

Studio


Francesco Paternoster
Bari — Milano, Italy
P.IVA 01450810773