Rivers & Ponds

Jan Kudláček, Holčička a déšt, 1974, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

At long last, today it rained. It wasn't much, surely not enough for our scorched fields and forests,

 but just enough to lift our spirits and make everything cooler, fresher and greener. 

And Animalarium celebrates the day with a very watery post!

Feodor Rojankovsky, Ploof the wild duck, 1935,

via The Visual Telling of Stories

Dahlov Ipcar, Brown cow farm, 1959

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Alenushka's tales, 1986 via HannaRivka

T. Chursinovoy, Askania amazing country, thanks to polny_shkaf

Leo and Diane Dillon, The Secret River

Brian Wildsmith, The Little Wood Duck, 1972

Nikita Charushin, Let the birds sing, 1985, thanks to Book Graphics 

Anna Pugh, Mill pond

Harriet Russell, Kensington gardens 

Uemura Atsushi 

 Leo Lionni, Fish is fish, 1970, via Curio Books

Marie Mahler

Beastly Dilemmas

I fell in love with Harriet Russell's work through her charming children's books

published in Italy thanks to Edizioni Corraini. It's not just the delightful 

illustration style; her surreal humour, visual puns and creative concepts

make her a very special author and illustrator...

A Colouring Book for the Lazy is full of black and white images,

for those who don't like to color in.

"Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’

‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it 

for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." 

from ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ by Lewis Carroll

This delightful conversation between Alice and the White Queen is the starting point for

 'Sixty Impossible things before Lunch', a book full of impossible pictures and questions such as

 
'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?', 'Where is the middle of nowhere?',

and 'What does the universe look like?'

Harriet studied art in Glasgow and completed her MA at Saint Martins College in London.

 Since then, she has authored six illustrated books and worked for many commercial clients

 including The New York Times and Channel 4. She regularly exhibits in London and New York.