Some animal painters :-)

Robert Bateman: Midnight, black wolf

Bob Kuhn; Pas de Deux

Carl Rungius

Bruno Liljefors

Carel Brest van Kempen; Lanjakdawn

Colin Bogle: Curious Cubs

Bob Henley

John Seerey Lester: Under the Pines

William Bliss Baker

Fallen Monarchs

Woodland Brook

Morning after snow

Not really inspiration or ideal, just some wonderful paintings... Mere beauty :-) Makes me happy.

Raymond Peynet

Reminds me of Henri Rousseau

and Marc Chagall

and also Coscinny :-)

...
and James Christensen, and Edward Gorey...

Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Here's more about his sketches and studies

Hans Holbein jr.

 I especially love his sketches... the face is so nicely made, the rest just sketchy... lovely.

I love the ambassadors... all the stuff on the table... 

and do you see the skull? You might need to look at it sideways. 

Amazing...

Then there's this... Body of the Dead Christ in His Tomb...Absolutely amazing, that too... in all its horridness...

(showing middle finger... ROTFLMAO)

Albrecht Dürer

Olga Dugina and Andrej Dugin