Sunday Safari - Flamingo Flair

All weekend I was busy with visiting guests, 

but finally this pretty pink flock is ready to fly.

I love flamingos, their flamboyant colors and odd bodies

where elegance and goofiness meet! 

Ludwig Hohlwein, 1912

West Indies vintage travel poster

Saturday Evening post, cover by Francis Lee Jaques, 1938

Bruno Munari, illustration from Munari's zoo

thanks to Little Lamb Books

Tibor Gergely, illustration from Wheel on the Chimney

thanks to Vintage kids' books my kid loves

Jacques Hnizdovsky, 1972

Sebastiano Ranchetti

Abigail Brown

Gianluca Foli

Marije Tolman

Lucho Rodriguez, illustration from ABZOO

Eleanor Grosch

Tatsuro Kiuchi cover

Simone Rea

Detective selvaggi (Wild detectives)

Furba (Smart)

Guardando la televisione (Watching television)

La nascita dell'uovo (The birth of the egg)

L'inventore (The inventor)

Gli sposi (The newlyweds)

Capracanta (Singing goat)

Bu bu!?

Fenicotteri banchettano (Flamingo banquet)

Il lupo e la pecora (The wolf and the sheep)

These are some artworks by Simone Rea, a talented Italian illustrator I have discovered

 while exploring the intricate and joyful network of interconnected European illustrators' blogs. 

I have also found a very interesting guest post by Simone on le figure dei libri, where he shows

 the painstaking technique he has developed to create the beautiful textured surfaces of his paintings.