Close up of a girl focused on fireflies in a jar. I invite you to visit the exhibit “Minnesota Made” at O’Shaughnessy Educational Center http://www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/exhibitions/ , runs until near the end of February. There you can view the whole of this piece, “Northern Lights” along with the works of many other talented artists from the Children’s Book Illustrator Guild. If you are not able to make the trip the complete image of “Northern Lights” can be found in my illustration gallery. http://www.linnelldesign.com/gallery/illustrations

Marshmallows browned over a fire in the wilderness, yum.

Poor hound confined to the length of a rope. Illustration was inked with Adobe Illustrator and colored in Photoshop.

Pre-school mural of flying balloons with kids and pet passangers. This is a photo of one corner of a room I painted for a church in Minnesota.

If germs were this big we would all try to avoid them and sneeze or cough into a tissue to protect others from germs.

Patterns in nature are found in plants, foliage and animals creating an infinite variety of patterns. This design was inspired by the art of Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel was a scientist and accomplished artist. Sketchpads and watercolors accompanied his microscope wherever he traveled. His field study drawings of deep-sea vegetation, aquatic creatures, frogs, birds, and higher animals were publication in 1904. His illustrations are beautiful and idealize nature, and may have influenced the Art Nouveau movement. His scientific theories were sometimes flawed and later misused but his art is wonderful.

“Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently. There is danger in reading further. You risk the loss of your childhood vision of clouds, forests, flowers, galaxies, leaves, feathers, rocks, mountains, torrents of water, carpets, bricks, and much else besides. Never again will your interpretation of these things be quite the same.”
—Michael F. Barnsley, author of Fractals Everywhere.

“Welcome”, said the spider to the fly.