Eco-Friendly Cut Out Paper Illustrations
These cut out illustrations by artist Bovey Lee are not only incredibly detailed, they are also made from rice paper mounted on silk, which happen to be renewable materials.
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Yelena Bryksenkova: Sketchbook
St. Petersburg-born, Midwest-raised Yelena Bryksenkova creates storybook-style illustrations full of a certain folklore nostalgia. Her sketchbooks reveal a lush inner landscape brimming with musings, portraits, meals, notable fashion, historic figures, and the view out the window. They remind me of Maira Kalman‘s illustrations, both in aesthetic and theme, as they remodel everyday subjects into curious […]
Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses
Since Disney bought Marvel comics, there have been a number of artists offering up creative image mashups. Perhaps my favorite is character designer/story artist Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses series. Thomas reinterprets iconic Disney female characters with a seriously dark twist. Looking at these is providing me great inspiration for twisted Halloween costumes.
Sophie Blackall’s Missed Connections
Sophie Blackall has an amazing series of illustrations in her Missed Connections project. She takes “missed connections” classified ads and visually represents them through her enchanting illustrations. From her blog: “Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections […]
Early microscopes
Peacay at BibliOdyssey has a roundup of illustrations of early microscopes. “They were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.” [Antonie van Leeuwenhoek […]
