1698 Flap book

 

This is a rare lift-the-flap book made by a child in 1698

The four sets of pictures are arranged side-by-side, transforming as the flaps are lowered and raised. Adam turns into Eve who becomes a mermaid. A rampant lion turns into a griffin, which becomes a baby-snatching eagle. The infant, who escapes and becomes a miser, mutates into an inverted heart, which then becomes a money bag. And finally, the rich man, once old and ill, withers to a skeleton.

The opening stanza commands readers: “Lift up and see the bride.” From there, the story–literally–unfolds as they choose. 

Currently on display at "Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling." The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Merve Kaya

 

Beautiful landscape studies by  Merve Kaya , again found through the 'Our Planet Week Challenge'.

Lee White

 

Thinking on extreme hobbies Lee White thought of a child obsessed with birds. 

Oddly since the weekend and since scheduling this post we have a bird, a crow with a broken wing run into by a car. 

It is not good to cage a wild bird, but I have no choice if he is to survive, though the wing was bound, he ripped the bandage off and his wing trails, and I have learned that crows wings do not heal, apparently magpies do, but not crows. 

Tina Loeffler

 

Tina Loeffler's works are folkloric and also have a uniquely asian visual language of both China and India, I found these works through her participation in the Our Planet Week Challenge.

Brad Hock

 

There is nothing that I do not love about this book, it is magical, funny and just creative joy. This is the second run of 1000 books published by Lore Game Books. 'How to bake a breadling' by Brad Hock for those in the Uk echos the gentle magic of Mackenzie Crook's 'Small Prophets' and has that soulful wonder and humour that brings a breath of joy. 

Beautifully produced, down to the endpapers, I cannot recommend this delicious book highly enough!

Kate Perrin IV

 

A sweet full moon from the sketchbook of Kate Perrin. 

Kalyani Ganapathy

'FOREVER FRIENDS! The Gods and their Vahanas' is published by adidevpress and written by Chitwan Mittal and delicately and lovingly illustrated with beautiful decorative details by Kalyani Ganapathy. 

Alice Barreras

 

Above: 'Trial of the Pantomime Horse' Below: “Guard the Fort, but Clockwise”

I love the almost medieval mythical madness of Alice Barreras's paintings often repurposing objects as canvases. 

 Above and Below: Étaín is a Beautiful Scarlet Fly (To Fuamnach's Dismay)

Petra Rodgers

 

Couldn't resist a second post of Petra Rodgers coloured pencil portraits of garments, this time her knitted vests.

Petra Rodgers I

 

Petra Rodgers makes wonderful studies of every day garments using coloured pencils on plywood, and I adore them.

Kirsten Sims

 

'Balthazar the Great' was the first book by Kirsten Sims, published 2017 by Orfeu Negro in Portugal.  ‘Balthazar the Great’ is a book about a violin-playing polar bear trying to find a safe place on the planet. He is freed from the circus by a group of activists and left in the middle of nowhere to find his own way home. Along the way he says goodbye to old friends and attempts to make new ones. He has to learn to fend for himself in a very big and often lonely world. Sometimes things work out well for him, but other times he gets overwhelmed by the journey.