Julia Manning

Love, love, love these prints by Julia Manning! Animals, birds, fantastic colors, wonderful shapes. Mmm, and the rich golden yellow she favors is positively yummy.

Discovered via A Polar Bear's Tale.

San Francisco Center for the Book Blog

First of all, I'm sorry for those of you who subscribe to both this and my art blog, because you'll be getting almost perfectly duplicate posts about this.  Duplicate posts like these will happen only very rarely, when the content of the two blogs overlap. 

For the last few months I've been volunteering at the wonderful San Francisco Center for the Book. And recently, I've started contributing to their new blog! So far I've been posting about my favorite book art and artists. Many of my planned and past posts touch on work that explores the relationship between analog books and digital media or e-books. Other posts are simply appreciating and ruminating on some of the beautiful work that book artists have created. Other posts so far have been about events, workshops, and classes held by or connected to the Center. Definitely check out the blog! You can also see all the posts I've made so far. 

Illustrations by Himmapaan on Deviantart

Mm, there's something so satisfying about the bold contrasts and clean lines of these illustrations by Deviantart artist Himmapaan. Wonderful way of storytelling.

A Bird Seller

Ah, took a bit of an inadvertent blogging break for a week or so there! I'll be back to posting at least weekly now. Though posts here might be slightly less frequent than in the past -- now that I'm both making art again and have a full-time job, I'll be focusing on that blog. I'll still be posting all my favorite inspirational images, and occasionally, recipes. Cooking original recipes is something else that's gone by the wayside with this full-time working and art-making! I still cook, but I mostly cook my favorites. A post on my favorites is forthcoming!

This is an image I first found on tumblr, and it's been inspiring me since. I love the man's stance, not to mention all the birdcages! More on the image can be found here.

Jacqueline Rush Lee book sculptures

Beautiful book sculptures and altered books by Jacqueline Rush Lee. Discovered via Sweet Station.

Carl Larsson

Beautiful light and color in these garden and interior scenes by Carl Larsson.

I first discovered his work via arsvitaest.

expressive watercolor animals by Brian Wildesmith, Mirko Hanák, and Janusz Grabianski

The birds immediately above and below are by Brian Wildesmith, the first bunny is by Mirko Hanák, and the fox and the second bunny are by Janusz Grabianski.

I found all of these images on art.crazed's flickr.