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The Best Bookish Art of Pinterest

Kelly Jensen

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

I’ve mentioned before that I curate the Pinterest account for Book Riot, which means I spend a lot of time perusing what it is people have pinned to share with our readers. Between work time on Pinterest and my own time using Pinterest for me, I’ve stumbled upon such a wealth of fun, creative book art. One of my favorite parts of finding neat art that way is it’s always a mix of artists who are established with those who are budding or who create just as a hobby and choose to share it.

I thought it’d be fun to round-up a pile of some of the best I’ve seen.

Artists and links to their other work are included where possible (I’ve been pleasantly surprised how well sourced much of the book-related art is on Pinterest — must be a reader thing!). Some of these pieces are original works, while others are commissioned pieces that have showed up in various magazines, books, or other publications.

 

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Ben Shahn

 

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Hazuki Koike (site is in Japanese)

 

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Michelle Hiraishi (it’s Matilda!)

 

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Janet Hill (check out the entire shop — she has a lot of great bookish art!)

 

 

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Art by an Etsy seller who uses the name TheExtentofSilence.

 

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Tallulah Fontaine

 

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Kaoru Yamada

 

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Sondra A. Strong

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Carly A-F (CarlyDraws). Check out the entire shop, as this is one piece in a series.

 

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Felicia Marshall

 

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Sophie Griotto (site is in French)

 

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Harriet Russell

 

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Deborah Dewit Marchant

 

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Timothy Ler Giles

 

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Aaron Becker

 

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Jan McDonald

 

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Ignacio Hernandez

 

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And finally, Matte Stephens‘s octopus art shows us what would be possible with eight arms.