May 26, 2012
No such thing as too many gratuitous treepics, amirite (Taken with instagram)

No such thing as too many gratuitous treepics, amirite (Taken with instagram)

May 26, 2012
summerwood (Taken with instagram)

summerwood (Taken with instagram)

May 25, 2012

Linking this because it’s been akin to a prayer to me for a few years now.

Enrolled in art school today. Going back again after 10 years away from it — these words feel truer now than ever before.

May 25, 2012
Another one that’s a bit too big for my scanner.

Another one that’s a bit too big for my scanner.

May 25, 2012
Found a scan of this which shows the detail a little better, but my scanner is too small for the whole thing. It’s part of a Green Man face, which is … not green.
documenting your work, how it do :(

Found a scan of this which shows the detail a little better, but my scanner is too small for the whole thing. It’s part of a Green Man face, which is … not green.

documenting your work, how it do :(

May 23, 2012
oldbookillustrations:

Oh senseless spirit! Let thy horn for thee
Interpret: therewith vent thy rage, if rage
Or other passion wring thee.

Gustave Doré, from Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, New York, circa 1866.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Oh senseless spirit! Let thy horn for thee
Interpret: therewith vent thy rage, if rage
Or other passion wring thee.

Gustave Doré, from Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, New York, circa 1866.

(Source: archive.org)

May 23, 2012
oldbookillustrations:

Coat of arms of the (imaginary) city of Clusy.

Frontispiece from Histoire d’un hôtel de ville et d’une cathédrale (History of a city hall and of a cathedral), written and illustrated by E. Viollet-Le-Duc, Paris, 1878.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Coat of arms of the (imaginary) city of Clusy.

Frontispiece from Histoire d’un hôtel de ville et d’une cathédrale (History of a city hall and of a cathedral), written and illustrated by E. Viollet-Le-Duc, Paris, 1878.

(Source: archive.org)

May 23, 2012
oldbookillustrations:

The cat stole away behind the city walls to the church.

Arthur Rackham, from Hansel & Grethel & other tales, by Brothers Grimm, New York, 1920.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

The cat stole away behind the city walls to the church.

Arthur Rackham, from Hansel & Grethel & other tales, by Brothers Grimm, New York, 1920.

(Source: archive.org)

May 23, 2012
oldbookillustrations:

Seven days I drove along the dreary deep

W. L. Taylor, from The Holy Grail, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Boston, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Seven days I drove along the dreary deep

W. L. Taylor, from The Holy Grail, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Boston, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)

May 22, 2012
Jean Giraud/Mœbius

Jean Giraud/Mœbius

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