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1) 🖼️ The whimsical plants and animals of Bill Mayer’s art
Bill Mayers is a prolific illustrator, including for some magazines I write for, like Smithsonian and Mother Jones. He’s been doing a series of gouache paintings that transform plants and animals in witty, sometimes anthropomorphized ways.
The traditional aesthetic of European still-life, aristocratic portraiture, and romantic landscape paintings set the scene for uncanny, chimerical subjects who engage in dreamlike encounters or gaze haughtily at the viewer. Gouache, which is water-soluble and more vividly opaque than watercolor, allows the artist to mimic the incredible detail of oil paint.
