I discovered Daniel Mitsui , an American-Japanese artist through one of my favorite blogs that has now sadly has disappeared. Mitsui is an artist in Chicago who concentrates on sacred artwork in the medieval tradition as well as biological illustrations. His work, painstaking and gorgeous black and white illustrations, are all done in pen and ink and by hand. I have posted an example of his beautiful bookplates
The beautiful color work below is Mitsui's Japanese vision of the Angels' battle against Satan.
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
