septagonstudios:

Koyamori ON TUMBLR

noelbadgespugh:

poppy stripes

kellycreates:

Update on my Heritage Rose for tonight :)  

• PLUS:  TIPS FOR DRAWING LEAF VEINS!!
  I wanted to share this to show the process and specifically the technique I am using on the leaves.  This is a really handy tip for artists who want to draw tiny details like veins on leaves or hairs or anything like that!  Basically, what I did here is use a Primacolor “Verithin” pencil and drew the veins in(I used yellow here).  I pushed hard into my illustration board and made a deep scratch in the paper as I drew.  Then, when I went to color the rest of the leaf, the indented veins show though the layer of colored pencil on top (since my normal pencils are too soft and think to reach the places where my “verithin” lines are)!   I would recommend you try this on very thick paper that can take a beating, because thinner papers will either rip or the dent won’t be deep enough for the effect.  I also recommend you be careful you know where you want to draw the lines because once you scratch them into the paper, there is no erasing what you’ve done!!

I hope I explained that well enough and that my tip is helpful!  I’ve just discovered this technique and I was just so excited that I needed to tell the internet! :)

I hope to have the rose illustration finished tomorrow night!! Stay tuned!

exhibition-ism:

Artist Crystal Wagner hard at work on her installation showing at Hashimoto Contemporary all month long in San Francisco 

a-pattern-a-day:

Partyparty! A pattern a day reached 25 000 followers today! Thank you so much. :D

theartofanimation:

Yasahime

fleurdulys:

Italian Girl with Flowers - Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

1886

noelbadgespugh:

colored blossoms

nicoonmars:

Mon Levinson
Reflected Color III, 1964

workman:

Martina Nehrling

septagonstudios:

Ekaterina Koroleva ON TUMBLR

hifructosemag:

While Mia Brownell’s paintings may recall classical Vanitas, her food-based compositions invoke contemporary food politics. A critic of the food industrial complex, Brownell creates a juxtaposition between the natural and artificial, modeling her opulent still lifes after molecular structures. Read more on Hi-Fructose.

ooksaidthelibrarian:

n89_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa. v.3.
London :Smith, Elder and Co.,1838-1849.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30303829