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Sae Tachimori
Born in 1984 in Osaka, Japan, Sae Tachimori began to work as an illustrator after graduating from the Kyoto City University of the Arts. Her whimsical and vivid illustrations harken back to the fantastical and technically magnificent https://littlelimpstiff14u2.tumblr.com/picture books of the early 20th century, erupting with bright, brilliant colors and chocked full of natural elements and symbolic imagery. The complexity and elegance of Tachimori’s work puts her at the forefront of the up-and-coming generation of young illustrators making waves in Japan today.
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Victorian blue enamel lockets.
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Respice poste! Hominem te esse memento, memento mori. Look behind you, remember that you are a man, remember that you will die.
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Plate taken from ‘The Biology of Dragonflies’ by R. J. Tillyard. Published by Cambridge University Press (1917).
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Jason Limon’s New Paintings Toy With Typography
Texas-born artist Jason Limonmoves into even stranger territory with his new acrylic paintings on panel. Several of the artist’s new works implement phrases like “Calling All Numbskulls,” pushing forward an idea that started with his “Three Letter Words” series from last year. Limon was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
He first returned to using text as a pivotal part of each work last year. He said this at the time to explain: “Typography has been something I’ve enjoyed from a young age. That and geometry; not the math end, but the arranging of shapes and parts that come together to make a whole. I used to do quite a bit of that, from filling a piece with letters to making a painting that almost worked as a puzzle. Somewhere along the way those things slowly vanished … I’ve always done my best to grow as an artist and let the art go where it wants. Right now it is calling to revert to a time in the past, to a moment that wasn’t so dark and to move forward with that lighter tone in mind.” This ideas has seem to evolved into something more complex now, with bizarre machines and containers that tell mini-narratives with Limon’s signature, fantastical creatures.
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Some of the most beautiful fish illustrations I have seen, by @franzanth for an Indonesian field guide.
The species shown above are (top left - bottom right) Anematichthys armatus, Barbodes lateristriga, Barbonymus schwanenfeldii, Cyclocheilichthys apogon, Osteochilus waandersii, Puntigrus tetrazona, Pristolepis fasciata, Pristolepis grootii, Dichotomyctere nigroviridis and Pao leiurus.
(via scientificillustration)