I could not resist taking this image of a tiny Yellow Banded Snail resting on a red winter leaf. It looks so bright and unnatural I think that this makes the combination even more relevant. The stunning colours of nature.

Portfolio / galerie de Claudine Lecoustre, artiste peintre, peintre de fleurs et illustratrice. Peinture et tableaux de fleurs, natures mortes, illustrations botaniques, carnets. Aquarelle, gouache, pastel et trois crayons. Portfolio / gallery of Claudine Lecoustre, artist, flower painter and illustrator. Flower paintings, still lives, botanical illustrations, sketchbooks in watercolor, gouache, pastel, and three pencils.

Oil on panel; 46 x 38 cm. Jacek Malczewski was one of the most famous painters of Polish Symbolism. In his creativity he successfully joins the predominant style of his times with motifs of Polish martyrdom. Polish painter. He began his training in 1873 in Krakow's School of Fine Arts on the instigation of the historical painter Jan Matejko (1838-93). Malczewski was initially taught by Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz (1828-1900) and Feliks Szynalewski (1825-92) and from 1875 worked exclusively under Matejko's supervision. In 1876-7 he studied under Ernest Lehmann (1814-82) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; here he began to abandon Matejko's historical subject-matter in order to tackle contemporary problems and give expression to his own experiences. He espoused the realism of, among others, Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school. In 1877 he again studied under Matejko but broke away in 1879. In 1880 he travelled to Italy and in 1884 acted as draughtsman for an archaeological expedition to Asia Minor, visiting en route Vienna, Trieste, the Albanian coastline, Rhodes and Athens. His mature work dates from after a period spent in Munich in 1885-6. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbE0DVcjKU&feature=results_m...

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We've compiled a list of cute tattoo ideas featuring animals that will surely appeal to your heart.

For Sale on 1stDibs - 'The Toff' bulldog pin, designed as a whimsical, British bulldog, analogous to Winston Churchill, with white enameled wingtip collar and black enameled

Steppe whiskered bat (Myotis aurascens) has a limited distribution range – from the Bulgarian Danube plain through Romania and Ukraine up to the Caucasus.

Green Peafowls is a colorful pheasant and is sometimes considered the most beautiful member of its family. Nests on the ground laying eggs

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