DACHSHUND

“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.” 

Christopher Wren

Short legged illustration friends, clockwise from top left; happy dachshund on a scooter by Robert Wagt, a very british dachshund by Christine Pym, red dachshund illustration by Debra Ziss, dachshund on an antique bicycle by Kayla King, vintage ad dachshund by Donald Brun, dachshund kissing a goldfish by german illustrator Wolf Erlbruch, dachshund and owner as one by Steven Lenton and finally dachshund holding a love bone by Masha D’yans.

SWINGING ILLUSTRATIONS

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” 

                                                                         J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

Illustration flying high, clockwise from top left; Yuko Yoshioka's long legged woman on a swing, woman in a white bathing suit on a swing by Robert Wagt, red haired girl on a swing by Megan Nicole Dong, cream colored circus swing illustration by Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi, girl in a red dress on a swing by Alanna Cavanagh, another red haired woman on a swing by Peggy Wolf, two kids swinging in a blue tree by Alessandra Vitelli and finally girl swinging in orange illustration by Higuchi Sakuya.

THE GHOST OF HALLOWEEN

“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.

Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.” 

Ray Bradbury

Illustrations as a treat, clockwise from top left; scary shadows on the wall for this trick or treater by  Robert Wagt,  Ian Falconer black cat scares himself in this New Yorker cover, halloween witches and ghosts in the countryside by Roger Duvoisin, witches on the moon by Adrienne Adams from her book "a Woggle of Witches", trick or treat candy illustration by Camille Rose Garcia, four monsters behind the window pencil  drawing by John Kenn, a pumpkin and two bunnies for this halloween illustration by the late great Richard Scarry and finally Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy is too cute to be true.

FASHION ILLUSTRATION IN BLACK AND WHITE

“Fashion changes, but style endures.” 

 Coco Chanel

The elegance of black and white, clockwise from top left;  fashion illustration of a sitting blonde by Tanya Ling, Yves Saint Laurent smoking by Robert Wagt, fashion sketch in black and white by Antonio Lopez, Dior as seen by Gladys Perint Palmer, another Dior illustration by fifties french illustrator Rene Gruau, a fur coat by 80's illustrator Tony Viramontes, linocut fashion illustration by Swiss artist Francois Berthoud and finally a watercolor by Swedish illustrator Mats Gustafson.

GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A SMALL PIANO

~The piano ain't got no wrong notes~

Thelonious Monk

Tune in to music for the eyes, clockwise from top left;  duck playing a grand piano by Robert Wagt, three hedgehogs and a piano by Monika Forsberg, pounding away on that old steinway illustration by Olga Demidova,  red cat playing the piano by Luka Va, illustration by Aurelie Guillerey of four kids having fun with a grand piano,big fat black cat playing on a pink heart shaped piano by Claude Henri Saunier,  pianist playing on a piano book illustration by Emiliano Ponzi and finally black and white piano player by Cliff Roberts  from "the first book of Jazz" by Langston Hughes (1955)

SHOWER ME WITH ART

I used to sing in the shower
Dance like I was in the rain
Watch all of my worries
Be washed down the drain

Illustrations as clean as a whistle, clockwise from top left;  Tine Schulz woman singing in the shower, little girl in the shower by Robert Wagt, vintage illustration by Aliki of a little boy playing in the bath/shower, a stripped elephant having a shower by Nathaniel Mather, Snoopy soaping up artwork by Charles M.Schulz and a peeping tom by Tor Freeman, Capyboppy having a shower laying down  by Bill Peet and finally cat and boy having a shower together  by Dr.Seuss.

A BEAR NAMED ILLUSTRATION

If I were a bear and a big bear too, I shouldn't much care if it froze or snew.

I shouldn't much mind if it snowed or friz, I'd be all fur-lined with a coat like this.

Like honey to a bear, clockwise from top left; circus bear juggling salmon by Robert Wagt, a bear having his morning coffee by Zachariah Ohora and a sulky baby bear by Genevieve Godbout, two bears fishing stripped salmon by Mark Allen Miller, a simple brown bear in the zoo by fifties children's book illustrator Roger Duvoisin, a vintage illustration by Polish illustrator Janusz Jurjewicz of a baby bear, bear strolling in the woods by Yusuke Yonezu and finally illustration of a bear by Herve Morvan from his vintage book "Sara the gypsy".