November 30, 2005


John Nash: Wild Garden, Winter 1959

Adriaan Jozef Hemans - La Cour De Mon Voisin

November 29, 2005


Otto Dix: Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1914

Pevsner: Sculpture-Construction, 1959

Look away vegetarians, here's a case of meat tools! More strange pictures can be found at the eye and mind boggling Miqel.com

November 28, 2005


Eduardo Chillida - Homage to Pable Neruda.

A charming drawing found at Willowcat Studio, which is mostly soft toy dolls and cats.

November 25, 2005


Adolph Gottlieb: Blues, 1962

Puffin Post Vol 1, No 2.
Go here for Vol 1, No 1 and a bit about the Puffin Club.

November 23, 2005


James Ensor - Christ's entry into Brussels, detail

November 21, 2005


Britains zoo models 1968. The chimps tea party was particularly fun!
Farm animals here.

Joost Swarte - Dutch cartoonist & graphic designer.

Paul Klee: Southern Gardens

November 18, 2005


Van Gogh: The Church at Auvers, June 1890

November 17, 2005


Atkinson Grimshaw: Hampstead, 1881

November 15, 2005


A second helping of Clifford Harper illustrations from The Guardian. First lot here.

November 13, 2005


Edward Bawden: Covent Garden Flower Market, 1967

November 12, 2005


Mondrian - Composition in blue-grey and pink

William Roberts: The Vorticists at the Restuarant de la Tour Eiffel - Spring, 1915 (1961-2)

Britains models - farm range from 1968. More Britains here.

November 11, 2005

A Jaunt in Jersey

Click HERE to read about my September Jersey shennanigans, with a generous smattering of photographs. On the left is La Hogue Bie dolmen, and below is one Monsieur Ian Williams with feathered friend.

November 08, 2005


This should take a few people back - Vol 1, no 1 of the Puffin Post from 1967. If you joined the Puffin Club you would get a Puffin Post once a quarter - something very special to receive through the letter box. On the back cover - some of the latest puffin books published, inside - articles, stories, reviews, competitions, cartoons and illustrations, & general food for the imagination.

The Puffin Club was founded by the late Kaye Webb, editor of Puffin Books from 1961 to 1979, who did a wonderful job of making good quality, affordable childrens books accessible to the post-war generations. (Info found on SevenStories - the centre for children's books)

1903 cartoon originally in Fliegende Blatter. The text translates: The use of the motor car in arts & crafts. Painting the ceiling of a large modern room. Cartoon by R Greifs.

This was reprinted in a book from the 70s called "A child of six could do it" - a collection of cartoons about Modern Art. Front cover over HERE.

Maurice Utrillo: Sannois

November 07, 2005


Rock typewriter from Worth1000

Pierre Bonnard: The Little Laundress, 1896

November 04, 2005


Eric Ravilious: Train Landscape

Eric Ravilious: The Waterwheel

Windy day - illustrator unknown. From a newspaper.

November 02, 2005


Gilbert Spencer: A Country Farm. I think I'm right in saying he's the brother of the more famous Stanley Spencer.