#brian wildsmith

[holespoles]

Brian Wildsmith

[kitschmelange]

illustration from Brian Wildsmith's BIRDS (1967)

[enchantedbook]

'Blue Bird' by Brian Wildsmith, 1976

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

Brian Wildsmith

[transistoradio]

Four double-page spreads from Squirrels (Oxford University Press, 1974) by Brian Wildsmith.

[canadianperson]

The Little Wood Duck

Brian Wildsmith

1972

[campsis]

Brian Wildsmith, HUNTER AND HIS DOG

[explore-blog]

A parliament of owls, a murder of crows, an ostentation of peacocks... How bird groupings got their strange and wondrous names (involving a forgotten 15th-century woman and some lovely vintage illustrations by Brian Wildsmith, like the one pictured here).