These are awesome. Some of them remind me of old nature/botanical illustrations but nothing like this ever existed in nature. Here are more. I’m sort of fascinated with this little guy.

TV Floorplans Feather Art

Intuitive Sewing Machine – It’s pretty but I’m quite attached to my 100+/- year old machine. And I don’t know how “intuitive” it would be for me since I’m used to either a treadle or a foot pedal. I never had any of the beginner problems the woman in the video talked about. Scrap Quilt [...]

Phil McAndrew encourages everyone to Draw Like a Six-Year_Old. That’s easy. As a matter of fact I do draw like a six-year-old. But that’s not quite what he means. The thing that really struck me, working with a classroom full of six-year-olds, was that kids draw without any reservations or inhibitions. They just have fun [...]

Dustbury linked to this interesting article on art and neuroscience. I’m probably just being snobby here but I can’t help wondering if the brains of people who don’t like art are less evolved than the brains of art lovers. The same post also led me to Pippin & Pearl, a lovely art blog.

Metaphysical Graffiti (via) is a fascinating Flickr set of vintage illustrations. A few are weird; most are merely quaint. The set owner’s captions mostly don’t do much for me. I think the images speak for themselves very well, although I must say I do really like, “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You [...]

Finding a Renoir at a flea market. That will never happen to me, which is probably all for the best. I would want to keep the painting but, being rather fond of money, I would also want to sell it. Of course my other half, being the practical type rather than the artsy type, would [...]

My daughter-in-law did this. I am envious of people who can draw anything at all that doesn’t look like a five year old did it. Like anything I try to draw.

What else can you say about a seven foot long Lego Serenity? Go look at all 75 photos on Flickr. This thing is incredible. I first saw it here.

Very cool: The artist’s website

First of all, before I get to the links: I have not been able to look at my favorite link site, Dark Roasted Blend, for weeks because my firewall is blocking it. It says that the site contains “harmful or objectionable content”. If anyone knows how to contact the folks at DRB please tell them [...]

Could there be a more perfect name for a painter than Luke Painter? He does a lot of work in India ink. I really like his drawings, especially the houses. (via)

I’ve been neglecting some of my favorite blogs so it’s been way too long since I last looked in on Bibliodyssey. The two most recent posts are both wonderful collections of images. Kinderbuch has charming illustrations from a 1910 children’s book. That was before my time, obviously, but still, it takes me back. I remember [...]

Artist Steve Nederveen – Beautiful! More. Woodgrain Post-It Stack – Wow. That’s cool. Small World Gallery – Beautiful photos of very tiny things Uh…. – No comment. The Plain of Jars – The world is so full of interesting stuff! Science Fiction and Fantasy Flow Chart – I could spend some time with this. It [...]

I’ve been looking at wallpaper again. I wanted to change my desktop background to something seasonal. Here are a few sites that I found. Graffiti Wallpaper – Lots of beautiful nature theme wallpapers, plus kittens, puppies and more 40 Widescreen Nature Themed Wallpapers – Lovely Crazy Frankenstein – Many different categories. This site also has [...]

Black velvet isn’t just for Elvis and bullfighters anymore. Check out Velvet Geek. I know some of you will want the black velvet Princess Leia gold bikini painting. (Darn. Sold already.) Go look anyway. There’s lots more geeky velvet. Via Lost at E minor

Thanks, Phantasmaphile for finding and linking Delphine Courtillot Her fantastic paintings are intriguing little scenes that make me want to know what’s going on and the titles, in many cases, only add to the mystery. I could look at these all day. (There are just a few realistic nudes.)

One of the commenters over there where I found this complained about having lost five minutes of her life watching this video but I watched it twice. And I might watch it again. I might even add it to my favorites so I can watch it over and over again. This is more than just [...]

7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-up Literature – I had seen the one by Mark Twain somewhere else but before I got around to mentioning it I found this. Of course I feel deprived for not having any of these as a child and I want them even though I’m “too old” for [...]

Instant Art Statement, A.K.A. Bollocks Generator. (British profanity is so charming and cultured, don’t you think?) I sort of like the first one it gave me so I’m going to copy it and post here. Who knows… I might need this when I decide to become a world famous, highly respected outsider artist. My work [...]

Pencil vs. Camera – This is awesome. First of all, I’ve always been envious of people who can draw that well. The drawings themselves are very impressive. And then putting them together with photography that way is just really cool. Found at the wonderful Dark Roasted Blend

This is my calendar for this year. If you click on the thumbnail you can see all the months, though still small. You can also see some of those paintings and a few more here. This artist’s website is rather annoying but I love the paintings and this is one of my favorite calendars ever. [...]

Fun with tech support – I could never work in tech support even if I new all the necessary technical stuff but if I was a tech support person this would probably make my day. (via) Interesting old books and a few other things. Beautiful cover on that first book and an intriguing stamp inside [...]

I’m “stealing” this from Byzantium’s Shores because it’s wonderful.