my favorite art books ✿

[@LindaVigil]

I was just thinking of visiting the folk art museum in santa fe (4 or 5yes old) and just being tall enough to get an lines eye view of all those sculptures and tiny villages - and how the little world that was created is still etched in my brain.

[@allycanuck]

Hi, I'm thrilled that I found you! I've watched a few older vids and I'm still going back to watch more. You are inspiring me, so thank you!

[@littletinyegg]

I love to hear that, thank you! Glad you’re feeling inspired ☺️

[@vickisigh2674]

so many cool, unexpected books in your collection, thank you so much for sharing! i've never been interested in trout, but seeing that art book made me curious to draw some hehe

[@littletinyegg]

you definitely should, they're so fun!

[@notjustanybeth]

I know this is an old video now, but maybe you will see this. 😊 I think you might like the art of Maria Sibylla Merian. She was a Swiss naturalist and artist, one of the first to study insects. Quite an interesting life. As for illustrators of children’s books, Ezra Jack Keats and Maurice Sendak spring immediately to mind.

[@buddhabro.9130]

One of my favorite art books that I love is African Canvas by Margaret Courtney Clark, It is a book of photographs of women building traditional African homes from mud, painting the walls with bold and vibrant patterns, carving mud wall reliefs, and creating Mud Dye cloth from real mud. The author has several books about the tribal arts traditionally done by women. Also, a reading book i love that YOU MUST GET, if you haven't already is Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A must-have if you love plants. The Popular Arts of Mexico by Kojin Toneyama, the author went to all the different cultural areas of Mexico and showcased the traditional folk art in every area of Mexico.

[@littletinyegg]

Thats funny, I just finished Braiding Sweetgrass! Thank you for all the recommendations!

[@BrookeKittell]

Love all of your books! I recently got back into art making and have been picking up books here and there, excited to get some more at a local library book sale soon!

[@littletinyegg]

Yay! The library is my favorite place to find art books!

[@DrawingconclusionsMatt]

Anything by Carson Ellis is a must, her work is so so amazing. Also, Shaun Tan’s books are superb!

[@halinav]

Fun! Thank you for sharing! I need to order some from my local library now! :) I personally love Rebecca Dautremer's illustrations. Came to love her after seeing and buying The Secret Lives of Princesses children's book. Also love Lauren Child mix media illustrations since my daughter was obsessed with Charlie and Lola books, cartoons when growing up.

[@littletinyegg]

The library is the best place to get art books! I love it. Also love Charlie & Lola and the secret lives of princesses! Your daughter has good taste haha. Thank you so much!

[@InkNSap]

Definitely master copies! ❤ loved this video, added many to my list.

[@asyuki193]

I don't own many artbooks due to their cost but I have small size handbook of drawings from Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu, who is cartoonist. His illustrations always give me something to think about.

[@whitneymason406]

Thanks for sharing! I love children's books. I grew up reading Frog and Toad and Where the Sidewalk Ends, things like that. One I love lately is My Brother Otto. It's told from the perspective of Piper Crow about her brother who is nonspeaking autistic and uses an AAC device. Love the illustrations and the story! 🥰

[@littletinyegg]

Oh cool I will have to check that one out!! I love frog and toad and shel Silverstein too! So nostalgic. Thanks Whitney!

[@ginnyc7886]

Thanks for this video, it inspired me to go look at my own few art books that have fallen into my hands in a new way ❤

[@eleven864]

Gyo Fujikawa's "Oh What A Busy Day!", sister!! It's gorgeous. I could spend an hour in that book when a child. I bought it for my daughter, but the newer edition I have doesn't seem quite as nice. The illustrations, though, remain so sweet and often totally beautiful.

[@mangooospagetti5879]

my personal favourite art book is David Hockney: drawing from life. it shows all of his life drawings of people close to him (his mother, and 4 of his close friends) over several decades, which is very interesting to see, and includes some very beautiful sketches and illustration-y figure drawings

[@littletinyegg]

ooooh I love david hockney- i'll have to check out that book!! Thank you!

[@fleurdeb7803]

Hey Kristen! I already have a passionate love for most of the books, authors and artists you shared. Thanks for introducing me to the rest. Hopper's Nighthawks enthralls me due to my past life as a night shift diner waitress. There is so much below the surface in that piece. 💖

[@ragenbellman9490]

I work in the mental healthcare field and I’m learning to be creative again and embrace that part of myself again. But, here are 2 books I like to use with my clients that are also beautifully illustrated. Maybe by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Gabriella Barouch and Noticing by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Elise Hurst.

[@artngoodfeelings]

"maybe they died...... lets not judge them" XD

[@littletinyegg]

hahah respect for the (maybe?) deceased ok

[@kfaulknerstudio]

I live near John James Audubon’s Mill Grove estate. It’s my earliest field trip memory 🪶

[@artistamandamillar]

Thanks so much for sharing that Tom Hart book 😍 exactly what i need right now ❤ One of my favorite art inspiration books is The Journals of Dan Eldon "The Journey is the Destination". He was a visual journalist and his sketchbooks are so rich with everything he did and experienced in Africa, really beautiful.

[@littletinyegg]

Oh I’ve seen Dan eldons work on the Internet but didn’t know he had a book!! Gotta check it out, thank you! And yes Tom hart is amazing!

[@samiaustin]

Omg I’ve been to that folk art museum! It’s incredible!

[@littletinyegg]

What that’s amazing!! Where is it?

[@samiaustin]

@@littletinyeggSanta Fe-I recognized all the little guys because that place is packed with figurines. It’s a weird and beautiful and likely haunted folk art palace; you’d love it

[@littletinyegg]

@@samiaustin sounds right up my alley!!

[@kaalthoff]

Where you stop in the Audubon book and say, "this is so beautiful" - I realized the top bird was the reference illustration my tattoo artist used for a tattoo I have on my upper arm! Except the bird I requested is a sparrow, so it looks a little different. But the branch, foot position, and spider are all the same. He told me he referenced Audubon for it but I had never actually seen the illustration. So wild to come across it here!

[@nickymartz]

LOVED THIS VIDEOOOO!!! I'm such a book junkie, and being in this journey of falling in love with art all over again; I feel the need to add to my art library as much as possible. I have a bunch of really good children's books. I"ll try to go through them soon and send you some suggestions.

[@littletinyegg]

I’m a huuuge book junkie! Also just love the public library for ideas! Then I decide I need to own them haha so it enables me. Please do send recs! And glad you enjoyed!! 🥰🥰💖

[@louisestgermain6428]

Great video! I commented the other day on your fish painting video that it made me want to paint some in my sketchbook, so I did, and you were right, it was a ton of fun! So when I saw the Trout of the World book in this video, I was like, Oooh, gotta find that! LOL (That's saying a lot from someone who comes from a very non-outdoorsy family!) I also love used bookstores for the reasons you talked about - you never know what you'll find, and usually the price is right too! (Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who appreciates the "old book" smell! 🙂) As for art books I love, there are many, but I like Chris Flodberg: Paintings, as well as Daily Painting, by Carol Marine. There's also Amy Butler's Blossom - not specifically an art book, but kind of like your folk art book, it's packed with images, patterns, clothing, art, colours, flowers, objects, etc. from all kinds of different places and it's a fabulous book to flip through to get ideas and inspiration.

[@littletinyegg]

Ooh so cool I will have to check those out! I’m so glad you had fun painting some trout, they are so fun and there’s a million variations! He also has a book with just American trout but the world book has wild stuff! I looove used bookstores i could spend hours inside

[@mikesalem-zs4ci]

This great, thanks Amanda!

[@catelope]

Loved this video! Thanks for sharing! i couple of my favourite art books atm are: "Une Semaine De Bonte" by Max Ernst, and "You are an Artist" by Sarah Urist Green". A couple of my favourite childrens books are: "The Color Kittens" by Margaret Wise Brown, and "Leo the Lop" by Stephen Cosgrove.

[@littletinyegg]

So glad you liked it! I haven’t heard of any of those I’ll have to check them out! Thank you!

[@mypersonalpainpoint]

I dont know if you like Leonora Carrington, you both have very different styles, but her colorful paintings and the way she used the colors remind me a bit of the atmosphere of your paintings. She was the last surrealist and and had a very adventureous life and she also lived in mexico, just like Frida.

[@littletinyegg]

Ooh I have heard of her but never done a deep dive, thank you for the recc!!

[@theminifood8401]

Hello 🤗 i am your big fan 🤗🙋🙋 from India 🇮🇳

[@conifercrow]

re: graphic novels/memoirs -- have you seen or gone to SAW's Friday night comics chats? I have quite a few backlogged since my KZbin time's been a little more scarce than I'd like for a few months now, but the ones I *have* gone to or watched afterward have been fantastic. I'm pretty sure they're both live and recorded still. There's usually a speaker who does a bunch of exercises along a central topic, and they've been so good that I'm really considering the SAW program now. (Sequential Arts Workshop)

[@littletinyegg]

Oh so cool, I haven’t heard of that! I’ll have to check it out, I love sequential art!

[@anapaulaotero-illustration875]

Ohhh by the way! I'm subscribing to your channel! Loved your content!

[@littletinyegg]

Welcome welcome!! And thank you!!

[@gracewagner6729]

"Babe, wake up little tiny egg has a new video out"

[@littletinyegg]

Wake up babe!!

[@16LifeGames]

I love your channel. I now collect the books from the new art publisher The Guide Artists Publishing. They are beautiful. I subscribe to your channel.

[@littletinyegg]

Welcome to the channel!

[@divinenonbinary]

The collage art and animation for some reason traumatized me as a kid and I’m still working on seeing it as cool bc as a child I saw it as fraud bc “drawings should be drawn not cut”😂 so every time I see a piece I have to intentionally switch to the “adult gaze” and be like oh that’s rly creative. Still would never show that to a baby just in case 😂

[@ElyseMarieee]

One of my FAVES is henry moore's sheep sketchbook def check it out !!!!

[@littletinyegg]

Oooh it looks so fun! Thank you!

[@fuzzydragons]

great folkart book 🙂 I really want the Diary of Frida Kahlo, yes it does feel kind of wrong reading a person's diary, but how is it any different than looking at someone's sketchbooks full of art and scribbles? still sort of wrong but its Frida Kahlo! its too hard to resists looking/reading

[@littletinyegg]

Right!! So hard to resist. I like to think she’s be happy with how many people find it inspiring or touching

[@StephHudson-s9w]

Love this video. I would heartily recommend adding Draw Like a Boss to your collection if you feel you needed one more :D

[@littletinyegg]

ooh I'll check it out! Thanks!