by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, Nature
Day 1 in Vermont was…two days ago? Three days ago? I was without WiFi for at least a couple of days and have sort of lost track of a few things. Funny how tied I’ve become to time while being able to access services online. The spectre of “what to...
by thadmin | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Beauty, Historical
I just posted some new scans of old illustrations… 01 “Peter Pan is the faeries’ orchestra.” Illustration by Arthur Rackham in J.M.Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ~ undated. 05 “The faeries have their tiffs with the...
by thadmin | Aug 6, 2013 | Art, Beauty, Historical
I just posted some new scans from an old book I was given years ago. It was from my father, whose father had given it to him. It is a collection of the Norse Prose Edda, or Norse Sagas, as written by Snorre Sturlason. The book was printed in Oslo (then, Kristiania) in...
by thadmin | Jul 26, 2013 | Art, Beauty, Historical
I have just posted some new illustrations at my new Tumblr blog. Also, my other Tumblr blog is still running and I seem to be adding images to that one every couple of weeks. Stop by and have a look. Owen, sleeping Title Page Skjære Per -en liten fabel for dem som...
by thadmin | Jul 6, 2013 | Beauty, Historical
A short while ago, I started a Tumblr blog of drawings I do on my iPad with Adobe Ideas. Have a look here if you like. Today, I started a second, new Tumblr blog called “Old Beautiful Illustrations”. It is, and will be, a selection of art scanned out of...
by thadmin | Jan 13, 2013 | Contrast, Historical, Travel
After returning from Alexandria, we had a single day left (the 10th of January), before needing to catch an ungodly-early flight on the 11th. Man, did I want to go back to Dahshur. Dahshur is a pyramid group further down the road from Giza than Saqarra – quite a...
