Flowers & Feathers

Nathalie Lete, La chouette orange

More folk inspiration to bring a touch of Spring 

into these barren Winter days

Julie Paschkis

 Neue Werbung cover and Bulgarian stamps by Stefan Kanchev

Evi Tihemets, Birds in folklore, thanks to vaula

Anja Jane, Ornamental Garden

Madhubani painting

Poster by Alfons van Heusden

Pierre Belvès, Découpages, 1947, thanks to Agence eureka

 The Shoo-Fly Pie, 1944, thanks to Jasper Armstrong

Milada Marešová, 1953

Nina van de Goor

 Jennifer Judd-McGee

Sukie

Sunday Safari - Nice Mice

Domenico Gnoli, Souris Blanche sur la nappe, 1967

Mouse-shaped box, Manufacture de Mennecy, 18th century, via Les Arts Décoratifs

Nicola Bailey

Marion Peck

Darla Jackson

swig

Christopher Wormell

Brian Wildsmith, thanks to The Art of Children's Picture Books

 Iliane Roels, illustration from The Mouse, 1969, thanks to art.crazed

Leo Lionni, Frederick (follow the link to the see the video adaptation)

Jason LaFerrera

Yvonne Gilbert, illustration from The Wild Swans

Miki Sato

Streamlined Zoo

Henri Creuzevault, The Jungle Book binding, 1925

I am working on a lesson about the graphic design of the 1920s and 30s,

hence the inspiration for this elegant Art Deco menagerie.

For more designs from the era, you may take a tour here and there.

 Edward McKnight Kauffer, poster for the London Underground, 1923, 

thanks to Cabinet Magazine

Rembrandt Bugatti, Nubian Lion, ca.1910 

Jean Carlu, Aquarium de Monaco, 1926, thanks to Pignouf

Japanese sculpture, 1928, thanks to Paris Originals

 Edmund Bartlomiejczyk, 1929

Art Deco Llama made from Glass and silver, thanks to Lost Found

Dinner menu from the Orient Line Orion, 1937, thanks to Bonito Club

Fábrica de Loiça de Sacavém

 Japanese New Year's Card, 1932, thanks to Aqua-Velvet

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz

Ceramiche Rometti, Rondini, 1936

An Angel Fish from Penrose magazine, 1930,

thanks again to The Visual Telling of Stories

Sunday Safari - Does & Fawns

Anne Siems, Pet Doe

I have always loved deer, aside from the fact that when I lived in California

they would get into my garden and eat all the flowers and vegetables!

If you love them too and would like to see some more, 

visit last Spring's Safari featuring stags and bucks. 

Kiki Smith, Fawn

Kristin Vestgard

Jennifer Davis, Fawn

Ghostpatrol

 1960s brass deer at Fears and Kahn

 Peter Vos

 Mirko Hanák, illustration from Joyce Stranger’s Book of Hanák’s Animals,

thanks to liquidnight

 Jozef Baláž, illustration from Tupfel im Brunnen, thanks to 50 Watts

 Nicky Clacy

Ikko Tanaka, thanks to Gurafiku

Hella Jongerius, Nimphenburg Sketches Animal Bowl, thanks to Agnes Szucs at iiiinspired

 Jason LaFerrera

Art & Ghosts

Yoshie Watanabe, illustration from Brooch