April 27, 2013 by Designsquish

Was Henry Darger inspired by postcard above?

July 26, 2011 by Designsquish

Stunning drawings by Japanes artist Ikeda Manabu .  Click on images to view larger.  On view now at Japan Society.

May 01, 2011 by Designsquish

Farm Road,1979
Tempera, 21” x 25 1/4”
Andrew Wyeth

February 28, 2011 by Designsquish

January 08, 2011 by Designsquish

Moths and butterflies illustrations by Eugene Seguy

December 22, 2010 by Designsquish

December 17, 2010 by Designsquish

Some drawings inspired by grapefruit pulp, dragon fruit, eyes and sky:

- http://mareikeauer.com/iam/anastasia_ugorskaya.html
- http://www.i-am-artist-designer.com/

December 04, 2010 by Designsquish

Botanic illustration drawings by Ernst Haeckel

November 19, 2010 by Designsquish

New watercolor http://anastasiaugorskaya.com

October 21, 2010 by Designsquish

Tree drawings and sculptures by Roxy Paine.

October 03, 2010 by Designsquish

“The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is their extraordinarily complex courtship and mating behaviour, where males build a bower to attract mates. There are two main types of bowers. One clade of bowerbirds build so-called maypole bowers that are constructed by placing sticks around a sapling, in some species these bowers have a hut-like roof. The other major bowerbuilding clade builds an avenue type bower made of two walls of vertically placed sticks. In and around the bower the male places a variety of brightly colored objects he has collected. These objects — usually different among each species — may include hundreds of shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items, coins, nails, rifle shells, or pieces of glass” - Wiki.

July 26, 2010 by Designsquish

November Meteors

Mare Humorum. From Study made in 1875.

Sun as Revealed by Telescope and Spectroscope

February 20, 2010 by Designsquish

TREE
Graphite on panel, 2007
18” x 24”

WINTER TREE
Graphite on panel, 2007
18” x 24”

- By Anastasia Ugorskaya

December 30, 2009 by Designsquish

Images from the book Heavenly Visions:Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs.

December 21, 2009 by Designsquish

Walton Ford
Borodino, 2009
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper

Walton Ford
The Island, 2009
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper

New paintings by Walton Ford at Paul Kasmin Gallery. 

December 19, 2009 by Designsquish

November 24, 2009 by Designsquish

anastasiaugorskaya.com

November 18, 2009 by Designsquish

anastasiaugorskaya.com

November 12, 2009 by Designsquish

Vancouver and New York based artist Aurel Schmidt.

October 19, 2009 by Designsquish

Untitled
Ink on paper, 33 x 60 inches
2002


These works of ink and watercolor on Chinese paper are influenced by Terri Zupanc’s continued interest in Japanese and Chinese painting and Zen Buddhism. Zupanc’s forms record a moment in time. Terri: “my interest in simplifying form has continued into an interest in simplifying process, with many of the pieces being done in one breath.”



Terri Zupanc
Untitled, 2002
Watercolor on paper
30 x 30 inches



Terri Zupanc
Untitled, 2002
Ink on paper, 55 x 70 inches



Terri Zupanc
Untitled, 2002
Ink on paper, 30 x 30 inches



Terri Zupanc
Untitled(Creek) 1997
etching, Edition of 35
24 x 22 inches




Terri Zupanc
Untitled(Brown Creek) 1997
etching, Edition of 35
24 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches

September 07, 2009 by Designsquish

Hummingbird




Humming bird, detail



Crimson necked bullfinch

September 06, 2009 by Designsquish

Brunonia Serica
Ferdinand Bauer
1760-1826
from Floral Illustrations of New Holland

Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
15th or 16th century
Gouache on vellum

From Vienna Dioscorides



From Vienna Dioscorides



Botanical Illustration from Codex Anicia Juliana, AD 512

From Vienna Dioscorides



Banksia coccinea (Scarlet Banksia)
Ferdinand Bauer
Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae
Early 19th century



Adele Morosini Rossetti (for Botanic Garden)
Rosa Abraham Darby
Watercolor , color pencil, tempera on paper




California flowering plant





California snow flower

Peruvian flowering cactus

September 05, 2009 by Designsquish

May 03, 2009 by Designsquish

I made this watercolor/drawing of naked winter trees when I visited Pennsylvania. Watercolor, color pencil and graphite on paper.

February 19, 2009 by Designsquish

Amy Ross’ drawings, watercolors and collages have a surreal effect.  The drawings are rendered in the style of scientific illustration . It is not easy to distinguish at the first glance where the leg of the mushroom starts and the leg of a human being begins. People’s heads are morphed with mushroom legs and birds are actually flower buds on magnolia trees - Amy plays with similarities and differences of nature’s shapes.



 
Amy Ross
Legshroom With Bird
2008
collage on paper
10 x 8 inches

February 18, 2009 by Designsquish

Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors are so detailed and realistic. My favorite part about his paintings are the tiniest grasses and hairs that are visible.  Not a lot of people can master this technique.
On January 16, 2009, Andrew Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness. He was 91 years old

January 16, 2009 by Designsquish

Walton Ford’s paintings are “as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists or, locating the work in the present, contemporary American consumer society” 

December 01, 2008 by Designsquish

Diana Sudyka’s watercolors are amazing.  A lot of her drawings and watercolors are of birds and animals. She makes high quality, limited edition archival inkjet prints of her works on sustainable, archival, bamboo paper. 

September 10, 2008 by Designsquish