Need some spooky critters that just happen to be French and vintage (and FREE) for your journals and other work? Last year I was lucky enough to acquire a stash of animal and bird prints from 1820. They are from an early encyclopaedia called Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle and I had long fantasised about owning some but they were rarely in my budget, until I was an antique show in France and found a guy with a wrong-side-of-the-tracks kind of table (my favourite kind). He had hundreds of loose prints from the book and he generously let me cherry pick the ones I couldn’t live without and made me an offer I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) refuse for a job lot. That was a special day.
While I do not make seasonal work I bet a lot of you do so just in time for Halloween, I’ve put high-res printable scans of some of the prints I thought would make terrific additions to journals, collage, cards, and other mixed media projects that you might be coming up with for the season. Or maybe, like me, you can think of other ways to use them for mysterious pages all year long. [read more]
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