Snowy Safari

Emilie Vast, Neige

For all of you readers and creatures who are walking on snow

WInslow Homer, The Fox Hunt, 1893

 Charles Livingston Bull, Old Crow and His Friends, 1918,

thanks to Aqua-Velvet

Grant Wood, February, 1940

Lennart Helje

Emanuel Schongut, 1990

 Józef Wilkon, The Story of the Kind Wolf, 1982, and Marc Simont, The Happy Day, 1949,

 thanks to Curious Pages

Felicitas Kuhn, Christmastime in Pixieland, 1970, thanks to Tania Covo

Aoi Huber Kono, Era inverno

Soviet poster, thanks to bpx

Charles Mikolaycak, Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, 1967,

thanks to The Art of Children's Picture Books

Sita Jucker

Catherine Hyde, Stag and snow 

Sunday Safari - Taiga

Diana Sudyka, Taiga

Today's post was inspired by the chilly northern winds sweeping through Florence,

and by Werner Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, about a group

 of fearless and resourceful people who really know how to survive in the cold.

Just like these wonderful animals...

Feodor Rojankovsky, Panache l'ecureil, 1939, thanks to The Visual Telling of Stories

T. Kapustin, The first sun, 1987, thanks to polny_shkaf's amazing visual library 

Nathalie Lete, Le Jaseur

Kate McLelland, thanks to Kickcan & Conkers 

Mikhail Belomlinsky, Wonders under the feet, 1967, thanks to bookvart

Ene Pikk, Kärp, 1981, thanks to vaula

V. Kanevsky, Winter Poems, 1984, via Hanna Rivka

Nikolai Tyrsa, Snezhnaya kniga, 1926

Gwen Keraval, Le fils qui sauva son père

Georgy Nikolsky, Year in the woods, 1978 and

Nikita Charushin, My first zoology book, 1984, thanks to Book Graphics

Animalsleepstories, The Old Caribou

L'Animal dans la Décoration

The color of autumn leaves reminds me of this beautiful folio created by M. P. Verneuil at the height

 of the Art Nouveau's ornamental frenzy. Verneuil was one of the most talented pupils in Eugène Grasset's

 Parisian atelier, and executed many designs under his direction for the 1896 portfolio

La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales. One year later he produced his own series 

of 60 lithographic plates containing hundreds of decorative depictions of animals 

and dedicated it to Grasset, whose realistic, detailed and romantic style clearly inspired him. 

 

Thanks to the New York Public Library for the gorgeous scans.

Protected from the Cold

It's hard to find information in English on the young Japanese illustrator Akitaka Ito,

so I'll just share a selection of his animal portraits and hope that their beauty, 

tenderness and subtle humor will warm up your day!