Inspiration
Art, designs, words, creations, internet pictures, ideas, and personal photos that inspire me and maybe you, too
Esther Mahlangu wall coverings in Villa Dorine, a villa owned by art collector Jean Pigozzi. More of her work
Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding | title page and hand-colored frontispiece from On Painting in Oil and Water Colours, Landscape and Portraits . . . | 1839
Petrykivka is a traditional Ukranian decorative style of painting, but the methods of this style are only known within a single Ukranian village of the same name. Artists use rudimentary techniques and materials, often handmade | More about this style and more samples
Ferrante Imperto | Dell Historia Naturale | The German word 'wunderkammer' can be roughly interpreted to mean a cabinet of curiosity. They usually consisted of robust natural history collections that were precisely categorized and organized.
Wayne White | I Took Off Work and Came All The Way Down Here | Oil on vintage painting | Other work
Bob Peak | Album artwork for Funny Girl (one of my favorite movies) | Guache and collage | 1968
The home that Charles and Ray Eames designed and built for themselves in the Pacific Palisades of LA | photographed by Julius Shulman | 1958
Architecture photographer David Cardelús captured this Art Nouveau style apartment building in Barcelona, but I wish I could find out more about its creation| More about this building
Fred G. Cooper | a type specimen included in this lettering book; this font inspired the Cooper Black font we still see everywhere today (the original Cooper font is seldom used, but is so much more pleasing to the eye, IMO.)
Frank McCarthy | Spread in Collier's magazine | 1953 | I love magazine spreads from this era because the layouts were experimental with the text and illustrations interacting heavily.
The Pre-Raphaelite painting style began in 1848 with a rebellious group of English painters and poets that focused on imitating nature
A Coign Of Vantage | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 1895 | oil on canvas
