I like to be seasonal with my collections on Pictureboxblue. It will be Christmas soon, so I thought I’d add a collection of vintage reindeer drawings to the site. In the past, I have curated collections of illustrations of animals also associated with Christmas, penguins, and polar bears. I even[Read more]
Besides pine trees, the holy, and the ivy, there are other plants one associates with Christmas. Here I’ve curated some vintage Christmas flower illustrations including poinsettia drawings Poinsettias are probably the most popular of all the Christmas flowers. Over 35 million of them are sold in the US every year.[Read more]
The reason I started this blog is due to my love of vintage maps and natural history images. I used to spend many hours as a child pouring over pictorial encyclopedias. That’s why I have made this DIY butterfly Christmas ornament, to reflect my interest. I chose the vintage butterfly[Read more]
Jenny Nystrom was a Swedish artist born in 1854. She was known as the woman who created the Scandinavian image of Christmas, with her numerous Scandinavian Christmas cards and magazine covers. She gave Sweden the festive image of, Christmas gifts and the Christmas tree. Jenny linked the Swedish version of[Read more]
Amazingly with all the travel bans at the moment I managed to sneak a trip to London. It was to visit the V&A museum, one of my favorite places. I had tickets for the superb exhibition “Kimono: Kyoto To Catwalk”. That gave me the inspiration for this curated collection of[Read more]
There are some wonderful vintage human skull drawings on Pictureboxblue that would look great framed for Halloween. I decided to take one of these vintage drawings up a notch, by creating some fun DIY skull decor for Halloween. As Halloween is all about the night I thought it would be[Read more]
I love to decorate my home for Halloween with vintage images. In the past, I have framed vintage skeleton illustrations and spooky bat drawings. I have just added to that collection with these human skull drawings. The human skull is associated with Halloween probably due to its symbolism of death. [Read more]
I still can’t get enough of the beautiful fish paintings of Louis Renard. I have used them again in creating a fun rainbow fish display for my gallery wall. It’s amazing to think that these wonderful tropical fish illustrations were painted in the early 18th Century. They are such bright,[Read more]