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Anette Björk Swensson (Swedish, born 1956)

#art

allcatsconstitutethesamefamily

From St. Nicholas, 1893.

They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

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crevicedwelling

I’m quite fond of scarlet and turquoise together, and Edessa rufomarginata displays them both in the form of a gorgeous stinkbug!

seen in Costa Rica, alongside an equally beautiful juvenile of the same species. they are quite common in this habitat but no less pretty for it!

covid tops on vinted

curiouscatalog

Scientific study of sea monsters?

From: Bushnan, J. Stevenson. The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars; [etc.], 1840.

QL45 .J12 v.35

palominojacoby

Indian School, a prince begging water from women at a well, c.1720.

#art

nobrashfestivity

Bhawani Das Great Indian Fruit Bat ca. 1777–82 Made in: India, Calcutta Pencil, ink, and opaque watercolor on paper

#animals #thought it was giving me the finger

soviet-furries

The Crow, the Carp, the Bear, and the Fox (Ворон, карась, медведь и лиса)

Gennady Pavlishin / Геннадий Павлишин

1968

#art

frostedmagnolias

Dress

1910s

Maryland Center for History and Culture

#fashion

herpsandbirds

Glorious Jewel Scarab (Chrysina gloriosa), family Scarabaeidae, Sedona, AZ, USA

photograph by CockroachCharles

Common eider

I want this kind of encouragement when I give PowerPoints

#animals

roomhole

crispy-ghee

There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages: