Explore Golly Bard's 1667 photos on Flickr!
Explore Golly Bard's 1667 photos on Flickr!
Animals as an endless source of creative inspiration. An exploration of the finest in art, illustration, crafts and design from around the world featuring animals, both real and fantastic.
Explore Golly Bard's 1667 photos on Flickr!
Yellow Warblers Holly Ward Bimba, the artist behind Golly Bard, paints lovely watercolors inspired by the nature surrounding her cottage in the rural village of Upperville, VIrginia. After learning how to work with watercolor from her high school art teacher, she studied printmaking, papermaking, and book arts at Syracuse University. Watercolor still remains her favorite medium, and she uses it to create delicate portraits of wild animals, plants, and other tiny wonders. Wild Hare and Honey Bees Web Weaver no. 5 Ant Hill I love the way she combines her methodic, science–oriented approach to observing and recording details and patterns, with a spontaneous, whimsical style and wonderful feeling for color. Frolic in the Fernwood Wild Hare and Honey Bees Black Swan and Water Lily Bog RIng Necked Pheasant no. 2 Bard is fascinated by natural history, repetition, and cataloguing. She often creates artworks featuring series of animals, or series of artworks with the same subject. Swarm of Empresses Migration Fanciful Feather Collection no. 1 Beetles, Weevils and Flies no. 8 You can view the rest of the series on Bard's Flickr gallery. Bard has recently designed the Woodland Collection of fabrics. These charming works can be bought from Spoonflower, a company that allows artists to print their own designs using digital textile printers and eco-friendly inks on natural fiber fabrics.
Luzon Bleeding Heart Doves An indigo palette with a shock of red. 'Love struck' . My kind of Valentine. Wishing you all a won...
And I mean big time crush. I’m thisclose to doodling Golly Bard (aka Holly) all over my notebook cover! She’s...
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The Landscape Listens Two bluebird specimens surrounded by luminous flies.
From the family of coleoptera and diptera. New beetle, weevil, and fly specimens in my shop!
And I mean big time crush. I’m thisclose to doodling Golly Bard (aka Holly) all over my notebook cover! She’s...
Explore Golly Bard's 1667 photos on Flickr!
happy friday all!
Hour of Birds III I just finished this large painting yesterday. These large works, with their tiny details are sometime daunting a...
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Working on some new watercolor paintings. I hope to have a shop update soon. This goose is nearly finished.
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cottontail oxalis nesting hummingbirds It's a spring thing. Three more paintings in my shop. Take a peek! ...
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top: Nest No. 39 left: Blue Winged Bird right: Feathery Plumes No. 39
Explore Golly Bard's 1667 photos on Flickr!
Green Butterflip Golden Katydid Mint Green Flying Stick Green Spotted Damselfly This is my collection of Fanciful Flying Creatures I ...
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Carpenter Bee It's a busy Monday morning. I'm getting ready for the Enormous Tiny Art Show at the Nahcotta Gallery . Here's a sn...
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal ...
Mixing up washes on my palette. Color inspiration comes from a miscellany of objects on my desk at home. Painting on the fly...
I fell in love with Harriet Russell's work through her charming children's books published in Italy thanks to Edizioni Corraini. It's not just the delightful illustration style; her surreal humour, visual puns and creative concepts make her a very special author and illustrator... A Colouring Book for the Lazy is full of black and white images, for those who don't like to color in. "Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." from ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ by Lewis Carroll This delightful conversation between Alice and the White Queen is the starting point for 'Sixty Impossible things before Lunch', a book full of impossible pictures and questions such as 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?', 'Where is the middle of nowhere?', and 'What does the universe look like?' Harriet studied art in Glasgow and completed her MA at Saint Martins College in London. Since then, she has authored six illustrated books and worked for many commercial clients including The New York Times and Channel 4. She regularly exhibits in London and New York.
