The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Website for a BBC program about flower paintings by artists such as Van Gogh and O'Keefe

My favorite blank notebooks

Buy art supplies on-line

The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium

World's Largest Web Museum

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France Robertson and Long Landscapes and a few floral watercolors by the Scottish artist and protagonist of the Glasgow Style

50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship Salvador Dali Techniques of oil painting and how to think about painting, written in the first person.

Picasso: A Biography Patrick O'Brian The definitive Picasso biography-- objective, literate, thorough.

Art Forms in Nature Karl Blossfeldt Photographs from the artist's botanical textbook.

Magritte Suzy Gablik Ever been curious about Magritte? This is a good place to start.

Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday One of the many good books about this artist. Includes a CD-ROM.

After the End of Art Arthur Danto The philosopher explains his ideas about contemporary art, clearly and simply

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life Twyla Tharp How to sustain regular production of creative work

Jim Dine: Flowers and Plants Marco Livingstone The artist's paintings of flowers and plants

Sensational Bouquets by Christian Tortu Christian Tortu Flower arrangements by the French floral designer

Imogen Cunningham Flora Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham Classic black and white photographs of botanical subjects

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717; Artist and Naturalist ed. Kurt Wettengl Biography of the botanical artist with many beautiful illustrations

Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones Sean Sexton et al Photographs by a victorian gardener, found in a trunk at a flea market years after his death.

Drawing: A Studio Guide Lu Bro The basics. .

Arts and Letters Georgia O'Keefe Illustrated book of the artist's letters.

Georgia O'Keefe: One Hundred Flowers Georgia O'Keefe Floral paintings

Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers Hiroshige Ando et al Japanese woodblock prints.

Orchids Greg Allikas and Ned Nash How-to book about growing orchids; beautifully illustrated.

In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger DVD The film's website briefly summarizes: http://www.realmsoftheunreal.com/About/about.darger.html

Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides DVD Description from Amazon: "From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multicolored pools of flowers, Goldsworthy’s painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature — who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometimes before it is even finished."

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch DVD From Amazon: ..."an artist deeply in love with the creative process, from writing and directing, to composing, painting, furniture-building, sculpting, photography, and always something new."