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Art and Craft - Page 1
This print was included in Jardine Naturalist's Library - Mammalia by Sir William Jardine. It was published between 1833 and 1843. The etcher/engraver for all 40 volumes in this four series collection was his brother-in-law, the Scottish artist William Lizars. I keep this original engraved print safely stored away from the elements, namely Japan's humidity. Many of the original water colours are in the Natural History Museum, London and in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.
This image was uploaded by djwhelan to his flickr site. The one comment it received thinks the railing is a tiny bit distracting but I'm glad he didn't get too close in and lose the the railing and stairs or we wouldn't be able to fully appreciate its size. What a great shot!
The RAT D'ART image on the right was uploaded by jglsong to his flickr site. jglsong obviously loves photography and his flickr pages are an abundance of quality and emotion. This guys certainly travels the world and his pages are testament to that. This image is tagged as Parisian Street Art. It's been added to a number of websites and blogs in differing styles but I like this one as the lighting still looks like natural daylight.
Here's a short intro to the plot taken from the Ratatouille Wiki. Remy lives in a rat colony in the attic of a French country home with his brother Émile and father Django. Inspired by France's recently deceased top check, Auguste Gusteau, Rmy does his best to live the life of a gourmet. Not appreciating his talents, his clan puts him to work sniffing for rat poison in their food. The rat flees the house when the resident, an old woman, discovers the colony. Rémy, separated from the others, floats in the storm drains to Paris on a cookbook written by Gusteau, following the chef's image to his namesake restaurant, now run by former sous-chef Skinner. As Rémy looks into the kitchen from a skylight a young man with no culinary talent, Alfredo Linguini, arrives with a letter of introduction from his recently deceased mother, and is hired to do janitorial duties. While cleaning, Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to cover up his mistake by adding nearby ingredients. Horrified, Rémy falls into the kitchen and attempts to fix the ruined soup rather than trying to escape. Linguini catches Rémy in the act, just as Skinner catches Linguini. In the confusion some of the soup has been served. To everyone's surprise the soup is a success. If you haven't already, you'll have to watch the movie and find out the rest by yourself.
This beautiful print is a scan from a 45 cent mint condition 1990 Grenada stamp. Grenada is a small island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. The Brown Rat was introduced there with European colonisation. Grenada is known as the Spice Island and nutmeg and its mace are vital to the economy. Nutmeg has been regarded as valuable in the management of male sexual disorders and a study was undertaken to measure its aphrodisiac qualities on what else but the Brown Rat.
The result:
I was sent this image from ramshornstudio.com as an end of year greeting's card and it's absolutely fabulous. The rats are very patiently (unlike my rats) waiting for a treat. The artist is a Swedish born lady called Jenny Nyström. I don't know if it's from a postcard or picture book but it crops up on ebay and specialist postcard websites as a postcard. |
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Rat
art and craft comes in two guises. There is rat art and craft created
by humans and rat art and craft created by rats. There is not a great deal
of art dedicated to rats to be found through the search engines but I was
lucky that 2008 was the year of the rat in some Asian cultures and there
were a few publications focusing on teaching design techniques for rat
themed New Year postcards. The human efforts are displayed on this page
and you can see some rat efforts at
If
you haven't seen Ratatouille yet you should. It's not often you get to see
an animated rat on the screen and Pixar animators really did a great job
on modelling Rémy and his colony.
