im always jealous of tattoo artists and their reference books

so here is my personal online reference list

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/ amazing bird illustrations

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ weird shit

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=614395 live bird photos in all sorts of poses

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/medievalimages/ oxford uni's medieval and ren. image database

http://www.wlym.com/~animations/harmonies/site.php?goto=congruence.html serious knowledge on the harmony of our world

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/index.html anatomy study

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/viewall.php the fantastic in art and fiction

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sca/digital/beast/pages.html Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents

http://www.gregscott.com/rwscott/rwscott.htm more birds

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html#P anatomies through history

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?id=HistSciTech.Perrault anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris

http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/browse.asp rare plant illustraions

http://www.universalleonardo.org - insane website on da vinci. could spend hours on it.

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.html math in art and arch.

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/ blog of monsters and such

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ - morbid anatomy

http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/birds/all-birds.html more cool birds

http://www.oldbookart.com/ old book art

http://www.oldmasterprint.com/ ethcings drawings engravings etc

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm new york public library's digital gallery

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=11648&s=1&notword=&f=13&sScope=Name&sLabel=Baxter%2C%20Thomas&cols=4 thomas baxter's page on nypl (unreal greek/roman drawings sooo cool)

http://www.old-picture.com/ amazing really old pictures

http://paranormal.about.com/od/othercreatures/ig/Gallery-of-Monsters/ paranormal!!!

http://www.sak-yant.com/index.html thai buddhist tattoos

http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/ - more old pictures and art.

http://www.geometrycode.com/sg/index.shtml - sacred geometry

http://doyle.lib.muohio.edu/cdm4/tradecards/ victorian trade cards

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8789 e-book visions of hell, dantes inferno/divine comedy and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré.

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictures/wolves_pg2.html wolf pictures (so sweet)



i'll be adding to this