heaveninawildflower:

Strohblume und Castilde ( watercolour and gouache) 1705 by

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717)

Wikimedia

 

muirgilsdream:

Nevropteres.

heracliteanfire:

Grosbeak and crossbills. Illustration to H G Adams and H B Adams’s ‘The Smaller British Birds’; after Alexander Francis Lydon. c 1874 (via British Museum)

ruineshumaines:

For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter. See more of Aiba’s work here.

indexlivraria:

Isabel Hojas

(via Beelog)

prova275:

Body Drop… assembling a split window coupe

syblatortue:

Window seat + fuzzy socks + tea

growhousegrow:

Pattern!  Color!  Ernst Haeckel of the day.

oldbookillustrations:

The Fairy of the Desert […] resolved at once to transport the Prince to a pleasanter place.

Henry Justice Ford, from Prince Darling and other stories, by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Toronto, 1930.

(Source: archive.org)

If I had a dollar…

jununy:

DRAWING ELEMNETS IS ALWAYS A CHALLENGE

bookmania:

“Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde; te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera.” 

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”

― Pablo Neruda,  Cien sonetos de amor [100 Love Sonnets]