Hand Drawing Collective

Found a wonderful drawing blog.  A few of my favorites are below.  

More to see on the blog.  Link here.

 Cendrine Rovini

Jane O'Sullivan

Jenny Brown

Wild Color by Jenny Dean

The author has a blog.  Link here.

Drawings of Curiosities

"Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665-1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented collection of animals, plants and insects from all around the world gained international fame during his lifetime. In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned illustrations of each and every specimen and arranged the publication of a four-volume catalog detailing his entire collection-from strange and exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, insects, butterflies and more, as well as fantastic beasts, such as a hydra and a dragon.
Seba's scenic illustrations, often mixing plants and animals in a single plate, were unusual even for the time. Many of the stranger and more peculiar creatures from Seba's collection, some of which are now extinct, were as curious to those in Seba's day as they are to us now."

I have romantic notions about cabinets of curiosities. The thrill of the search and the satisfaction of the find. How each object holds a memory of when it was found. The desire to keep looking, keep collecting. And then the drawings, yet another romance. The time spent in solitude responding to marks on the paper. The layers of graphite and charcoal. The magic of an image appearing on the two-dimensional surface.

I found images and quote on BibliOdyssey. Link here.

Notes and Imagery, The Gaze

December, 2014
The original source for this info no longer available. I was redirected to sketchbook.lizzieridout.com