“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.

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 26, 2010

November Meteors

Mare Humorum. From Study made in 1875.

Sun as Revealed by Telescope and Spectroscope

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on February 20, 2010

TREE
Graphite on panel, 2007
18” x 24”

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

- By Anastasia Ugorskaya

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on December 30, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on December 21, 2009

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. 

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on December 19, 2009

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on November 24, 2009

anastasiaugorskaya.com

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on November 18, 2009

anastasiaugorskaya.com

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on November 12, 2009

Vancouver and New York based artist Aurel Schmidt.

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on October 19, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on September 07, 2009

Hummingbird




Humming bird, detail



Crimson necked bullfinch

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on September 06, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on September 05, 2009

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on May 03, 2009

This is a drawing-watercolor-painting of a peeled pomegranate.  Have you ever wondered how pomegranate looks like when it is completely peeled?
I did!! !!!!!!  Anyways…. pomegranate is sooo good for you. The other day Paul was riding in the train and he saw this hippyish girl holding and devouring a huge bowl of red fresh pomegranate seeds.  She either bought them already separated from pomegranate or she separated the seeds herself.  Paul thought she bought it for about $20 at some fancy farmer’s market in Manhattan but I think he was just jealous.
Have you ever tried pomegranate-raspberry-green tea?  It is good.  P.S (Just found a recipe of pomegranate/pistachio salad on Worth my Salt) read more—>

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on February 20, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on February 19, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on February 18, 2009

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

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on January 16, 2009

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” 

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on December 01, 2008

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. 

Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on September 10, 2008