I've been a huge fan of Dover publications ever since my high school boyfriend, who was a massive literature nerd, showed me all the dollar poetry collections. I still have my copy of The Wasteland, Matt! Haw haw. Is that creepy? Uh... anyway. My tattoo artist, who is also a friend, showed me this book he had that was just a Dover published book of victorian illustrations, it was awesome. I ended up buying the same book. The other day I was a the library and they had a whole buttload of them, there was a cool one with flying machine illustrations, one with crazy creatures, one with tons of insects, all of them totally my bag. I actually recognized a lot of the insect images as some of the copyright-free images I've snagged off of google for reference in my insect collages. ANYWAY. I'm trying to get better about referencing the material without outright copying the images (even though there are no legal conundrums, it just feels kinda stupid). I thought these dragonflies came out pretty cool, anyway.
I've been working primarily on wood for the last few weeks (it's fun! it looks rad!), but drawings on paper are, as always, still available.
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