Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!

You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

I'd been struggling lately to justify or figure out things to make in the past few months and had a realization that has helped. I wrote it into a artist statement on www.galdrecraft.com/about

Just want to thank folks who keep supporting my work who also probably feel like they are not from here.

This has been making the rounds on tumblr but it hasn’t crossed my tl here, so I’d like to pass on the news to whoever needs to hear it:

www.animal-photo-references.com is a new, ongoing collection of AI free, CC license wildlife photography for artists. It looks promising so far.

Cheesing a tree in four easy steps:

1: random colour shapes.
2: more colours.
3: whatever you wanna do, paint-splatters, details, glitter, everything goes!
4: draw branches and trunk into the shapes.

Done.

Can be shortened to two steps.