Landscape designer Lily Kwong on using plants to fight acne.

Joan Becker Spring 2011

Tempera su pergamena preparata 40 x 60

I have a painting by Irma Stern dated 1942 - or at least it seems to be. But I have no paper trail since I bought it at - Answered by a verified Antique Expert

The German Olaf Hajek is a painterly illustrator with a penchant for hardcore fantasy and melancholic beauty. He revels in the complex simplicity of folklorish imagery, while at the same time addressing the heady issues of race and youth. Gestalten just published Black Antoinette: the Work of Olaf Hajek, which collects much of his commercial work of the last decade. It is a stunning volume of pleasing and disturbing images, colorful yet dark, happy yet morose. I recently talk

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This week's grand prize: a beautiful, single colored print called The Visitor by illustrator Melissa Castrillon.

Nature is the main subject Michelle Morin's beautiful paintings. The one with the flamingos is my favorite!

In her show FEVER DREAMS, Arnold works quickly, using a technique of wet-on-wet watercolors to create muted colors and lush dreamlike imagery.

They start out all fun and colorful, and the world just seems amaaaaazing and full of beautiful creatures.

Elaine Quehl is an award-winning Canadian quilt artist, teacher, and dyer who specializes in intricately-stitched pieced and appliquéd art q...

Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889‑1982) Sir Cedric Morris by Unknown photographer,ca. 1920,NPG Iris Seedlings (detail),1943,Tate,UK Before the Second World War, Morris was a well-known painter and breeder of irises, which he admired for their 'elegance, pride and delicacy'. In 1940 he moved to…

Erich Heinemann

London-based artist Katie Scott creates intricate artworks inspired by vintage Japanese medical illustrations and the work of German biologist Ernst Haeckel. More illustrations via FormFiftyFive

Elements of the science of botany,. London,Printed by T. Bensley for J. Murray.1812.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4843832

L'illustratrice con sede a Tokyo Kaoru Yamada / 山田カオル è nata a Kamakura, in Giappone. Oggetto delle sue illustrazioni sono i paesaggi, le persone nell

Basilius Besler Blue Hyacinth, Wood Hyacinth 1613

Danish photographer Søren Solkær captures the dazzling, shifting shapes of flocks in flight

Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings, which today comprise the esteemed Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London. North - high-spirited, indefatigable, and brave - also kept detailed journals, which were posthumously published in three volumes in the late 1800s. Abundant Beauty collects the most engaging writings from those journals in one edition, including rich descriptions of botanica and delightful accounts of local people and customs from her sometimes dangerous travels. Abundant Beauty is a fascinating and informative read for botanists, gardeners, historians, and armchair travellers.

This is my first contribution to the Sketching in Nature group and I'd like to introduce myself. The main medium I've worked in for many years is gouache. For a full size painting (a full sheet of watercolor paper) I spend anywhere from six to ten weeks. For some of my botanical studies, done strictly from life, I work off and on during the plant's life cycle and if I happen to miss a phase I put the painting away until that phase comes around the next year. Needless to say, after doing that for many years I began to look around for an alternative way to record the things around me that didn't require such a committment of time. That's when I was lucky enough to run across Kate's watercolor pencil workshop in early 2008. I will never give up gouache because I'm an addict when it comes to detail, but I've also developed a love of watercolor pencil and pen and ink. I had to give up art entirely for well over a year because of near blindness, and as my vision began to return and I reconnected to the internet, what was one of the first things I ran into? -- Kate's Journaling class! What an inspiration she and my classmates have been. Starting January 1st, 2010, I began a journal dedicated to nature subjects and these three images are selections from it. I've enjoyed browsing through all your posts here and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

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Let's pretend for a moment, that in our virtual cabinet of curiosities, we had an imaginary artist-in-residence programme. And on the top shelf of our giant cabinet, we kept a little guest studio to invite exceptional talent that speaks to us in ways that only a truly peculiar type of artistry can.

Booklet of cyanotype impressions, 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins (1799-1871) Part 1 of Fox Talbot's own copy, sewn in original blue wrapper.

Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson London John Murray 1901 binding design by F.G.Gordon