Some graphic finds from Italy

Italian floors

Pinocchio Country

Back home! I've been in Italy for last two weeks, at the Lago Maggiore to be precise. We had a great time in a beautiful region! Lost of Pizza, Pasta and Pinocchio! He was - how could I forget - born in Italy, so we ran into him a lot of times!

Unfortunately I did not come home with a lot of material or inspiration for my blog. I guess I was truly on holiday...
I'll post a few pictures later on though. And will show some items I bought in Gent, Belgium.

Happy holiday!

Today we leave for France and Italy for about two weeks! I'm leaving you with these fruitlabels, just so you know I'll be collecting a lot of these during the next holiday. Hopefully I'll be able to discover and collect other great things which I can share here. I'll keep you posted!

The blues

Colour studies again!

Save an owl

Cute little money box I bought the other day. The thrift shop had a whole collection!

Encyclopedic (flesheating) plants

Vintage children's books

A few great ones from my own collection. I don't remember reading them all though.

Post #400! Kids' drawings

For my 400th blogpost I present some of my kid's drawings. My daughter (7) makes a lot of drawings and doodles, my son (nearly 5) is less interested, but he's starting to enjoy it more and more.

Merel Zwart

Space Invaders

Time Machine

Paradise Lost

I don't blog a lot about photography. Maybe it's because I see a lot of it and I don't get impressed easily. Merel Zwart is a Dutch photographer whom I really like and I follow on Twitter. We've never met, but I'm sure we will one day.
I thoroughly enjoy her 'Utopitect project' from which you can see a few examples above. I love the way she has an illustrative eye.

In her project ‘Utopitect’, Merel (re)constructs images of political ideologies and technological progress, taking the viewer back in time, yet at the same time, offering a critical view of the future. Her autonomous/documentary work blurs the boundaries of past and present, dreams and reality, progress and stagnation, emotion and reason.

Let's talk about the weather

We've been experiencing quite bad weather the last couple of days, so I thought I'd make up for that with these two schoolbooks about the weather and about magnetism. The illustrations in the weatherbook are great!

Anna Raff's birds

Anna Raff is an illustrator in New York City who who works for children's books, editiorials and magazines. But I especially love her birds. She has a blog where she posts a bird illustration every day. These works are so lovely and humorous. It looks as though she does them in between jobs!