The Persian Sibyl, 1647-8, by Guercino, Italian Baroque painter active in Bologna, died #OTD 1666; the pose and exotic costume of Guercino’s Sibyl inspired Mengs, Benjamin West, and Louise Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun. Musei Capitolini

A post budget #cartoon from the reject pile

More recognition for women artists, please.

Metamorphosis: Apollo and Daphne, c. 1625, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, great Italian Baroque sculptor & architect; died #OTD 1680. Galleria Borghese

The paper artworks of Asya Kozina who also designs life-sized sculptures, wedding dresses and masks, 100% out of paper #WomensArt

In amongst the Lancashire day bookfest….my art

My coloured pencil version of @StudioTeaBreak.bsky.social’s #PortraitChallenge suggestion to draw ‘Thyra Elisabeth’, painted by her sister Ellen Thesleff, the original was created in 1892. #sketch #drawing #portrait #DrawnOnTheFrontOfAnEnvelope

Catching up with another fab #PortraitChallenge set by @studioteabreak.bsky.social. My pencil #sketch of Portrait of Laurie Morrocco, original was oils on canvas painted by his father, Alberto Morrocco, 20th century. The eyes were so tiny to draw… #DrawnOnTheBackOfAnEnvelope #drawing #portrait

Junes the Florist, Southport

Oh my goodness…

I’ve pre-ordered my copy and can’t wait to read it! Another gem from Stephen Proctor to add to my bookshelf. 📚⛳️🏌🏻‍♀️ #golf #GolfHistory #GolfLit #WomensGolf

"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers! Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡 Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!

Happy August all!⛱️🌈🌞 Thank you for following 🧡 !

Every day the world presents you with the wrong battles, designed to waste your energy so you don't fight the right ones.

I will never, ever get over this.

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Having fun drawing @studioteabreak.bsky.social ’s #PortraitChallenge. 🥴📖✍️ My black & white pencil on brown recycled paper version of “Strong smell” character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt circa 1770-1781 cast in lead-tin alloy. Victoria and Albert Museum #sketch #sketchbook #art

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ ‘Strong smell’ character study, sculpted by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sometime between 1770-1781, cast in lead-tin alloy Victoria & Albert Museum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_X... Larger image: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

The best tip (imo) for illustrated books: never repeat what's in the text in the image. Always add something to the narrative in the image. Think of the art and words as two widgets in a machine with slightly different jobs that work together to make the machine work.

‘The Royal Blimp’ for today’s #throwbackthursday #flyingmachine #airship #art #artist #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #illustration #fantasy #cartoon #fantasyart

My coloured pencil sketch version of @StudioTeaBreak.bsky.social #PortraitChallenge - ‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955, via @ahistoryinart. #TheDailySketch #portrait #sketchbook

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ ‘Retired Schoolmistress’, painted by Evelyn Dunbar in 1955 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_... via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social

Oops! 🐭 Little peek at an illustration for our seventh #Adventuremice book, launching this October ✍️

Thurday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Young Man Reading, painted by Octavian Smigelschi in 1892. Brukenthal National Museum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia... via @wikivictorian.bsky.social

My Waddle-on-Sea penguin is out for all to see! ✨🐧🧣✈️✨ It’s for a fab Wild in Art trail raising awareness and funds for @havenshospices.bsky.social in Southend-on-Sea. Tag me if you spot Captain P. Penguin in Leigh-on-Sea! Wilson James are my sponsors. #WaddleOnSea #WildInArt #LeighOnSea #penguin

UK artist Laura Knight, Untrodden Sands, 1912 #WomensArt #Summer

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Portrait of Louise d'Épinay, drawn in pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard around 1759 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-%C...

Sketch I did whilst visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum (the home of the Bronte family). #Bronte #Haworth #Yorkshire #drawing #art #artist #traditionalart #blackandwhiteart #pendrawing #pensketch #HumansOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArt #bskyart #urbansketching #urbandrawing #sketching #sketch #doodle

#cartoon about freezing too obsolete for the modern world

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Australian Robert Ingpen, now 88. Sampling exceptional draughtsmanship from his illustrated Alice. Posting for the 160th anniversary intermittent Alice illustrations by living artists from breathtaking work prompted by Carroll’s book. @thestorymuseum.bsky.social #Alice

*** PLR alert *** Don't forget to register your books for Public Lending Right before 30 June folks! #kidlitUK

Clip of my painting process creating the Albyn School tartan for the “All One Clan” Wild In Art sculpture event in aid of Clan Cancer Support called The BookBench Trail. It’s at the Westburn Park in #Aberdeen for several weeks. #TheBookBenchTrail #OpenUpWithClan #SandraRussellArt #WildInArt

I painted “All One Clan” for The BookBenchTrail that is at Westburn Park, in #Aberdeen. In aid of Clan Cancer Support. My Wild In Art sculpture is sponsored by Albyn School and features it’s school tartan, seen below. 🟦🟨🛋🟥🟩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TheBookBenchTrail #OpenUpWithClan #WildInArt

This #cartoon was published in The Oldie... #diningout #restaurant #ripoff

Drawing @studioteabreak.bsky.social’s #PortraitChallenge whilst on a rocking train going backwards. 📖✍️😄🛤 My coloured pencil version of Portrait of the Painter Hans Massmann, painted in oil and metallic paint on canvas by Egon Schiele in 1909. #sketching #DailySketch

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ Portrait of the Painter Hans Massmann, painted in oil and metallic paint on canvas by Egon Schiele in 1909 egonschieleonline.org/works/painti... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Sc... via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social

Beautiful

Mini paintings from recent walks. Getting addicted now! #ampainting #acrylicpainting #landscapes

It's out! This is the massive project I've been working on with @petrabraunstudio.bsky.social published today by @scholasticuk.bsky.social! Take a journey through #history from our common female ancestor to today and read inspiring stories of #women around the world. For readers age 9-12 and beyond!

2/2 I don't remember a single other illustration or poem in that book, just 'Some One [Came Knocking]' and that illustration. The two are inextricably linked. And, as long as I have the ability to remember things clearly, those words and memories of that picture will always bring me pleasure.

Interesting cuckoo fact: Apparently cuckoos lay between 12-22 eggs…all in different nests. Around 20% never hatch. No wonder their eyes bulge. (Well they do in this drawing). #birdlife

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by French illustrator/political cartoonist Jacques Goldstyn. Spread in ink and wash from The World of Maxime about a 10-year-old who loves books and cats and befriends an old lady. Text by Lucile de Peslouan. Classic characterful hand-drawn cartoons. Greystone Kids 20 May.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay. Polished work by David Melling from Do You See the Tiger?, with text by Philip Ardagh. In which a child is the only person who sees the tiger on the underground. Out from Walker Books on 20 May. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @philipardagh.bsky.social

Am I a) declaiming Mark Antony’s speech from Julius Caesar? Or b) thanking the attendees at the opening of the exhibition of Dad’s paintings? (My scarf was painted on silk by my father.) The exhibition runs at 11 Canonbury Place, N1, 10 to 4 daily until 13 July. www.johnedwardjones.co.uk.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Beth Suzanna from See For Yourself, a picturebook by Jordan Stephens about a father who helps his son realise his dream of going to the bottom of the ocean. With soft strokes of colour, warmth and skilled draughtsmanship. Bloomsbury 22 May. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Some of Dad’s paintings (www.johnedwardjones.co.uk) are on show in the café and downstairs at The Place, 11 Canonbury Place, N1, 8 minutes’ walk from Highbury & Islington tube, until 13 July. All (unsold) paintings are for sale. Open every day 10am-4pm. Enquiries to sje@lodeveans or 07939 141740.

Remembering this special talk with the late Judith Kerr at Jewish Book Week 2016, one of the world's finest and best-loved writers for children and young adults, in conversation with @nicolettejones.bsky.social Enjoy the full talk and other JBW favourites on our brand new JLF Player, coming soon!

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sally Gardner. From a republished hardback of her gentle 2001 fairy tale set in Venice, The Glass Heart. Delicate line-drawing and exquisite scene-setting rich in miniaturist detail. From Head of Zeus, reissued 8 May. @headofzeus.bsky.social @sallygardnerart.bsky.social