pngs for snails

Where I find images to make into PNGs

Museum / collection websites

Rijksmuseum • Metropolitan Museum of Art • National Gallery of Art • Europeana • Public Domain Review  • The British Library • Victoria & Albert Museum • Wellcome Collection • Risd Museum • Phoenix Ancient Art • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden • Georgian National Museum • Internet Archive • Getty Images • Louvre • Statens Historiska Muséer • Museum of Applied Arts • Royal Collection Trust • The Walters Art Museum • Science Museum Group • Kunst Historiches Museum Wien • The David Collection • MAK collection

+ pretty much any museum site with a virtual collection

Auction websites

1stDibs • Sothebys • Ruby Lane • Live Auctioneers • Christie’s • Timeline Auctions • Heritage Auctions • Auctionet • Hindman Auctions

Various

My pinterest • Worthpoint • Etsy • Shoplook • Wikimedia Commons • Replacements

Any site with a search-by-image function (Google Lens, Yandex etc) > “find image source” > “visually similar images”

Other PNG blogs

goobersplat • gooberscollage • vile-things • encyclopaedia-ornithonesiae • oceantoyz • transparensies • png-magician • whizpurr • adjpngs • transpareats • transparentstickers • transparenzz • pngtrash • fruit-prince • honeyrolls • bleedingthroughteeth • png-heaven • dolldmg • starrypngs

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(I will be updating this list! If you have suggestions or would like to add or remove your blog from the list, message me)

Isopod (+ one millipede) PNGs

(1. Millipede statue by Tom Otterness, 2. Pottery isopod, 3. Armadillidium vulgare, 4. Isopod silver pendant & pin, 5. Isopod in amber (?), 6. Isopod with babies, 7. Tiny glass isopod, 8. Bronze isopod sculpture, 9. Isopod made of scrap-metal (?))

Done 🌟

Nausicaä is one of my favorites as well! If you haven't already read it, I recommend Shuna's Journey (you can read it for free here) also by Miyazaki, it has a similar kind of feeling.

Oh, and let me take this opportunity to show you a cross stitch ohmu I made:

Nausicaä-inspired PNGs, part 2

(1. 17th c. pilgrim flask, 2. Brush-footed butterfly egg, 3. Ohmu illustration, 4. God Warrior tapestry illustration, 5. Inside the God Warrior illustration, 6. Soil centipede (?), 7. "Woman with owl" by Kiki Smith, 8. Beetle belt buckle, 9. God Warrior tapestry illustration)

Nausicaä-inspired PNGs, part 1

(1. Spores, 2. "Mistletoe Parasite" from the Fantasy Specimen Museum, 3. Ohmu figurine, 4. Dorstenia hildebrandtii, 5. Mycena subcyanocephala, 6. "Fate" porcelain mask by Richard Garbe (1921), 7. Permian bronze bird cast (3rd–12th c.) 8. Protozoan stentor floating colony, 9. Anomalocaris canadensis)

Random PNGs, part 218

(1. Perfume bottle by Julien Viard, 2. Diptych compass and sundial from c. 1595, 3. Astrology map, 4. Half-moon banjo, 5. Illustration from manuscript "La Sfera", 6. "Étoile cosmique" by Raymond Roussel from 1923, 7. Illustration by Cesare Ripa, 8. Constellation Cygnus from medieval manuscript, 9. Medieval signet ring)

Random PNGs, part 217

(1. Spiral of shells, 2. Janus head from whale vertebrae, 3. Crinoid fossils, 4. Ceramic art by Dominique Mercadal, 5. Glass model of amoebae by Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka, 6. Slime mold (Stemonitis), 7. Hakutaku by Miyagi Gengyo (1958), 8. Slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa), 9. Yup'ik seal float (?))

Random PNGs, part 216

(1. Wooden dachshund toy by Gvozdariki, 2. Chalcedony inscribed with cuneiform (1300 BCE), 3. Seashell, 4. Delftware swirl mudlarking find, 5. Illustration from "Book of Hare Stories" by Tom Seidmann-Freud (1924), 6. Wooden cat by Gvozdariki, 7. Rabbit coin bank, 8. Mirror by atelier Mithe Espelt, 9. "Lunar Hare" by Georgina Warne)

Are your legs (1) jointed, (2) fat, and (3) props?

You might have leg-plan of the baby.

(source)

Types of woodlice from "The British Woodlice" (1906) PNGs

Random PNGs, part 215

(1. Victorian salt cauldron by Francis Higgins (1886), 2. Chalice by Beatrice Wood (1980s), 3. Sculpture of performer (1900), 4. Metal brooch by Marci Zelmanoff (?), 5. Vintage Mexico-themed sterling silver bracelet, 6. Windowpane oyster shell (?), 7. Antique french mouse & cat button, 8. Victorian memory jug, 9. Art Nouveau bird inkwell)

No, the gems of this world are these transient things:

Limoges box PNGs

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.)

Random PNGs, part 214

(1. 17th c. frog purse, 2. 1930s Czech fortune telling crystal ball, 3. Hand study by Józef Simmler (1800s), 4. Fluorite carved owl (4th - 3rd century BC), 5. Antique perfume bottle, 6. Art Nouveau gold ring with emerald, 7. Necklace by Meredith Ann Waterstraat, 8. Welsh wooden bowl with poem by Taliesin, 9. Sun brooch by Jewellery Theatre Kaleidoscope)