A bunch of drawings from a series I was doing in late 2015. The sketchbook they were in got stolen along with my backpack out of a bar in january 2016. It really fucked me up at the time. I always meant to go back to it. Super glad I had really high res scans of them all. That first one was featured in Spectrum 23 I think. All done in Graphite
These wonderful illustrations come from ‘A Description of the Genus Pinus’, many by Ferdinand Bauer, published (1803-42). Goethe wrote of this book “It is a real joy to look at these plates, for Nature is visible, Art concealed.”
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur : under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42
By American Museum of Natural History. Belcher, Edward, Dall, William Healey, Gould, John, Gray, John Edward, Hawkins, B. Waterhouse Hinds, Richard Brinsley. Hullmandel & Walton, Charles Joseph, Lea, Isaac, Richardson, John, Sowerby, G. B. Stuart, Robert Leighton, Publication info London :Smith, Elder,1844 [i.e. 1843-1846] BHL Collections: Smithsonian Libraries
