Giorgio Giulio Clovio, 1572
10 fabulous free printable collection of natural history posters. More specifically, birds, insects and butterfly posters by Adolphe Millot.
The owner of this traditional Victorian house in Stockwell has turned her artistic hand to every inch of it, from the hand-painted bathroom tiles to the once-ugly kitchen cupboards disguised with pretty broken crockery.
Birds and insects like butterflies and dragonflies were a major trend at the High Point Market this year. Many believe these soaring animal...
Here at Bored Panda, we're pretty much obsessed with two things - pandas, and art. When a Chinese illustrator combined them together to put a fun twist on some of our favorite paintings, the result was something we're still having trouble calming down over.
Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c.... London :Printed for author at the Royal Collage of Physicians,1758-1764.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605
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“Let's dance. Check out this cheeky couple. #mantis”
Hernan Bas’ insects are coming of age at Perrotin, Tokyo.
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Matthew Collings reviews Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave at the British Museum, on view through August 13, 2017. Collings concludes: “Hokusai believed every year of working improved his ability and he would have to get to 100 before he really hit the peak. At 75 he wrote modestly and with comic particularity that it was […]
Little gold bits. #watercolor #painting #goldleaf #crane #bird #birdsinart #art . Www.patreon.com/StephanieLaw
‘To Yirrawalla’ is a tribute to the artist Yirawala (1903 - 1976) from the language group Kuniniku of the Arnhem region. Whiteley felt a strong affinity upon meeting him in Sydney in 1971 and viewing his bark paintings. The minimal ...
140 pages of woodblock prints by a master of kacho-e painting depictioning insects, birds and flowers. This is an amazing collection showcasing years of his prolific art.
14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
Abby Diamond is an amazing illustrator from Pennsylvania, US. As a fine arts graduate and animal lover, Abby created a stunning series of watercolor
This is part 1 of a 2-part post on the life and works of British illustrator Edward Julius Detmold (1883 – 1957). Edward and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883 – 1908) were born in London in 1883. They were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and their love of natural history. Their animal subjects were always among the most sensitive of their drawings. Prodigious early talents, they exhibited watercolours at the Royal Academy when they were 13 and had a portfolio of etchings issued in 1898. The brothers worked jointly on their etchings and illustrations. Their first book illustrations were produced jointly for the 1899 Pictures From Birdland. Their next project, at the age of 20, was a portfolio of sixteen watercolours inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. They were well on their way to joint and individual success when Maurice suddenly committed suicide in 1908 – he was twenty-four years of age. No satisfactory explanation for the act has even been given. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of suicide 'whilst unsound of mind' and there was apparently a note as well. Edward was stunned by the sudden death of his twin, but managed to continue on with his art. His next book illustrations practically defined him to his publishers and their patrons. These were the 1909 The Fables of Aesop for which he did twenty-three colour plates and numerous pen and ink chapter headings. Then came Maurice Maeterlink's The Life of the Bee and Birds and Beasts and The Book of Baby Beasts in 1911. In 1912, it was the Book of Baby Birds and Hours of Gladness. Other books had titles like The Book of Baby Pets and The Book of Baby Dogs (1915), Our Little Neighbours and Fabre's Book of Insects (1921) - all reflecting the natural history that had so fascinated him as a youngster. Even when he branched out, as he theoretically did in 1924 with his The Arabian Nights, he was just as likely to choose animals to illustrate as he was to depict humans. It was to be his last illustrated work. In 1921 he had written a tract to attempt to explain himself, his work and his life. To quote from Keith Nicholson's introductory essay in The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold: "A decade of intense activity was drawing to a close. Detmold could look back upon some fine achievements, but he was disillusioned with many of the uninspiring commissions for children's books he had undertaken. A pointless and destructive world war emphasized his worst forebodings of man's direction in the new century. The happiness of his childhood and the loss of his twin brother, now recollected in an uneasy tranquillity, combined to produce an existential crisis in the artist. In the wake of feeling that life for him had become meaningless and intolerable, he produced a literary work which testifies to his readings in Schopenhauerian pessimism and the Buddhist philosophy of the Upanishadr and the Bhagavad-Gita. Life, his only un-illustrated work, a book of aphorisms, was published by J. M. Dent in 1921. A key book to an understanding of Detmold's mind, Life is an inauspicious-looking small volume printed on one side of the leaf only. In his preface the author writes: `The following words have come to the writer, over a period of many years, as the fruits of self-overcoming.' From the curious, mystical text we learn that there are two ways of attainment: `The direct positive way - through progressive liberation - passing from the lesser realisation of the body, to the greater realisation of the mind, and therefrom to the realisation of the infinite through the soul; and the direct negative way -through disillusionment - which comes of infatuation with things in themselves, and the inevitable passing thereof.' In the event, Life was Detmold's farewell to the public world of books, and his testament." Resigned from the world, Detmold went to live in Montgomeryshire where, after a long retirement and almost totally forgotten, he died in July, 1957. Strangely, there exists no official record of his death, though it is believed that he too committed suicide. Amapolas from 'News of spring and other nature studies' 1917 At the Edge of the Lotus Pool etching and drypoint Birds in a Nest Catasetum y Cypripedium from 'News of spring and other nature studies' 1917 Cockerel etching Coryanthes Maculata from 'News of spring and other nature studies' 1917 Espinas from 'News of spring and other nature studies' 1917 From 'Birds and Beasts' 1911 From 'Birds of Town and Village' 1920 From 'Birds of Town and Village' 1920 From 'Birds of Town and Village' 1920 From 'Fabre's Book of Insects' 1921 From 'Fabre's Book of Insects' 1921 From 'Fabre's Book of Insects' 1921 From 'Fabre's Book of Insects' 1921 From 'Fabre's Book of Insects' 1921 From 'Hours of Gladness' From 'The Book of Baby Birds' 1912 From 'The Book of Baby Birds' 1912 From 'The Book of Baby Birds' 1912
Jan Brandes' vintage nature illustrations are a true treasure trove for anyone interested in the natural world. 25 drawings free to print.
Last night we found this jewel in our email inbox. Dear Rick and Maria, While enjoying the December, 2009 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, I saw Sandy Steen Bartholomew’s article: Add Patterns to Journals with Zentangles and Transfers. I visited your website and was immediately “hooked”. I shared that with my niece and we have both been obsessed ever since. When our local newspaper acquired newspaper stands from another city and needed them repainted, they offered them to artists to “do their own thing,” we knew exactly what we would do….Zentangle! It took two of us 33 days and 100 hours to Zentangle all four sides and the top of the newspaper stand. 100 hours of pure pleasure. We still can’t decide which is more fulfilling: drawing every line or seeing the finished product. “Our” newspaper stand now lives in front of the Golden Waffle restaurant on Main St in Chico, California. Thank you for sharing Zentangle with the world. LH Wow! Thank you so much for sending that, LH. It's awesome! Please send us a picture of it after it's installed. [Edited to add] Here's a picture of its installation. Click images for larger views.
