For this #makeshitmonday please enjoy a #WIP of my friend's super cute pigeons 🌿✨️ #petportrait #art #blueskyart #drawing #illustration

Quote with your horn art! Well, antler snail

"Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, The Owl's sit in council, like prophets of Fate, Discussing grave questions of Kingdom & State" Louis Wain (1895) #OwlishMonday

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This is a first edition (1899) hardcover book titled "The Romance of Wild Flowers: A Companion to the British Flora" by Edward Step.

#LittleShadowMonsters 🌼

Embroidered front and back covers of a 1791 edition of Robinson Crusoe — featured in our essay "Pens and Needles", on the Victorian revival of embroidered book covers: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pens-and-needles-reviving-book-embroidery-in-victorian-england

Cauldrons have been used for rituals and food preparation since the Bronze Age for cooking, laundering clothes, bathing, brewing beer, medicines and rituals. The symbol of the cauldron, represents rebirth and continuous abundance. George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

I just learned #sundayfishsketch is a thing and I'm thrilled because goldfish and koi are my favorite animals. This one is a little darker because I've been grieving the loss of one of my favorite koi. Not accurate, but inspired by scientific art. #blueskyart #illustration #drawing #anatomy #art

Marcus McAllister ”SB148.35 use your intuition” 2025 - Sketchbook drawing - 23x15cm #sketchbook #drawing #SciArt #bird

Cookies #WIP #ArtWIP

Kunstformen der Natur Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47388024) #nature #illustration #art

Book Cover of the Day:

Soft angels 🌸🐑🪽 #art #traditionalart #cuteart

Kids in the village who watch Doctor Who call it the 'dark TARDIS'. Older, cooler kids who meet there for a snog or crafty fag call it the 'brick dick'. There's never been a time I can remember when it wasn't a dare to put your ear to the door to hear the ghosts in the reservoir below. – Jo Ash #VOH

My current collection of little handdrawn bookmarks for #BookWormSaturday ✨️ Currently Reading: Sour Cherry #drawing #art #illustration #blueskyart #fairytales #folklore #folktales #fantasy

The Gotha Missal: Fol. 82v, The Trinity https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.287.82.b

Book Cover of the Day: #Caturday

The Nine-Colored Deer of Dunhuang, a tale painted in betrayal, beauty, and karmic justice. This divine deer once saved a drowning man, only to be betrayed when greed led him to expose its secret. The king, tempted by its radiant hide, sought to capture it. 1/3 #mythology #art

#ForestFriday Horse chestnut shrug. #photography #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #monochrome #trees #nature #woods #treelovers

The 4th prompt for #PrinterSolstice2526 is subtraction so I thought of a scientist & talented writer who brought the world’s attention to what was missing. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) published 🧵

Mother Goethel graphite and digital 2025 -{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

‘You may think all this strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.’ — Arthur Machen, ‘The Great God Pan’ (1894) 🎨Aubrey Beardsley, frontispiece, ‘The Great God Pan’

Ok painting ONE lil guy for ANE art show…waiting for bits to dry still

A little girl and her loving doggie, painted together in 1673 by Caspar Netscher. It's his day.

« The Witch's Cottage », 1924 by Kay Nielsen (Danish artist, 1886-1957) Illustration from "Hansel and Gretel And Other Stories By The Brothers Grimm", Hodder & Stoughton, 1925 #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #KayNielsen #grimmbrothers #fairyTalesIllustration #hanselandgretel

🐬 Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs bd 2 plates Berlin ;bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1780-1789. [Source]

Qilin commission

“Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying;” (Robert Herrick) 🎨Mateus Roberts

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#BookologyThursday Exterior of 'The Book Shop' Scotland's second largest used & antiquarian book store, owned by author, Shaun Bythell.

Welcome to #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: ✨📜BIBLIOMANIA📜✨ Mysterious Manuscripts, Haunted Bookshops, Secret Libraries, Odd Collections, Grimoires, & Rare Books. …in literature, art, legends, and folklore.

Not dead yet. #kaseyart #penandink

Goodnight. May all our dreams taking their own winding path of stars until morning. 🖼️ Winter Night in the Forest, Otto Hesselbom, 1907. #GothicChill

Like the ghosts of Blandy Castle, #PhantomsFriday drifts elegantly away into the bright moonlit night. Many thanks to all the contributors to the feed: another rewarding day of fascinating, startling and varied posts. Nice to welcome a new contributor, too.

#originalart Moon Goddess bookmark is up in my ko-fi 🌿✨️ 💙📚 #portfolioday #blueskyart #wyrdWednesday #art #illustration #drawing #mythology #fairytale #folklore #fantasy

I love the style of these illustrations of fungi, maybe by Cornelis Rol from the Verkande collectible card albums, Netherlands 1920s-30s #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub flic.kr/p/caG7QN

#WyrdWednesday Elegy For Cock Robin delivered by the Rook & the Lark (Joseph Kronheim)

there's something about tuesday

13 Jan 1680: Marie Louise d'Orléans arrived in Madrid from Paris #otd having married the 18 year old Carlos II. Triumphal arches were erected in her honour. This is a design for one, of St. Isidore the Farmer, patron of the city. Drawn by Matías de Torres (British Museum)

🦩 The birds of North America New York, U.S.A.: Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America, 1895, c1888. [Source]

I know #portfolioDay was yesterday but I just want to add that I would be 100% delighted to be commissioned to make more medieval-esque bullshit this year! 👀 I haven't got my vgen sorted yet but I do take comms so email abistevens@btinternet if you're interested! 😁 #artistSupport #commissionsOpen

Hello #portfolioday 🌿✨️ I make original ballpoint pen illustrations, mostly of fantasy and horror themes. 🐌🌿 #blueskyart

A new original art bookmark is up in my ko-fi 🌿✨️ 💙📚 #originalart #traditionalart #drawing #art #ink #illustration #fantasy #blueskyart

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My #best9 #top9 from my Cara art portfolio. 💙 #cara #blueskyart #drawing #illustration #art #fantasy #folklore #mythology #fairytales

My favorite new #drawings and some pretty frost from my windshield. 🤣✨️❄️ #makeart #blueskyart #art #drawing #sketch #fantasy #illustration #mythology #fairytale #folklore

Folk Horror Vibes #kaseyart #penandink

A current favorite #drawing for me. Bird creature on recycled book page. #blueskyart #fantasy #mythology #art #traditionalart #ink #illustration