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New Desserts by Gemma Correll via Kottke. View high resolution

New Desserts by Gemma Correll via Kottke.

Waterlife and Peacock: ‘Waterlife’ by Rambharos Jha, 2012, and “I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail’ illustrated by Ramsingh Urveti, 2012.

via BibliOdyssey

Egene Koo, 혼자 있기1 Being Alone1, Oil on Canvas, 116.7X91cm, 2011 Via Journey Round My Skull

Egene Koo, 혼자 있기1 Being Alone1, Oil on Canvas, 116.7X91cm, 2011

Via Journey Round My Skull

Ballerina on Asphalt A drawing of mine I found while cleaning out some files — I remember the style, but I can’t remember what it was meant to illustrate. View high resolution

Ballerina on Asphalt

A drawing of mine I found while cleaning out some files — I remember the style, but I can’t remember what it was meant to illustrate.

Author, Author Brilliant portfolio of scratchboard portraits by Mark Summers. View high resolution

Author, Author

Brilliant portfolio of scratchboard portraits by Mark Summers.

I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli via BibliOdyssey. View high resolution

I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli via BibliOdyssey.

Magnus Blomster and the Big 70’s Muff. View high resolution

Magnus Blomster and the Big 70’s Muff.

If A Woodchuck Could Wear Chucks. By David Schwen via notcot View high resolution

If A Woodchuck Could Wear Chucks. By David Schwen via notcot

Fire Frog — Master Illustrator Tim O’Brien View high resolution

Fire Frog — Master Illustrator Tim O’Brien

Artwork 101 - Chris Gall View high resolution

Artwork 101 - Chris Gall

Illustrations from The Story of a Silkworm by Nooreddin Zarrinkelk (Iran, 1973). Via A Journey Round My Skull View high resolution

Illustrations from The Story of a Silkworm by Nooreddin Zarrinkelk (Iran, 1973). Via A Journey Round My Skull

Embrace Constraints - Illustration by Mike Rohde.

Embrace Constraints - Illustration by Mike Rohde.

Mayumi Haryoto interview - via Textureculture In spite of the realatively painful translation, an almost interesting short interview with an unusual graphic illustrator. Haryoto’s Website here. View high resolution
Mayumi Haryoto interview - via Textureculture

In spite of the realatively painful translation, an almost interesting short interview with an unusual graphic illustrator. Haryoto’s Website here.

Conrad Gessner’s Animals, A New York Times Slideshow “Today’s paleo-art—the paintings of creatures no living human has ever seen—has its roots in the Middle Ages. Bestiaries were filled with images of mythical beasts and woefully distorted pictures of real creatures. Renaissance artists transformed the visualization of nature by putting more care into making their pictures accurate. The finest example of this new kind of art, a 4,500-page tome called “The Histories of Animals,” was published by the Swiss physician Conrad Gessner in the mid-1500s.” View high resolution
Conrad Gessner’s Animals, A New York Times Slideshow
“Today’s paleo-art—the paintings of creatures no living human has ever seen—has its roots in the Middle Ages. Bestiaries were filled with images of mythical beasts and woefully distorted pictures of real creatures. Renaissance artists transformed the visualization of nature by putting more care into making their pictures accurate. The finest example of this new kind of art, a 4,500-page tome called “The Histories of Animals,” was published by the Swiss physician Conrad Gessner in the mid-1500s.”