These Adorable Illustrations Will Brighten Your Dreary, Cloudy Days

These Adorable Illustrations Will Brighten Your Dreary, Cloudy Days (NEW BOOK)

If April is the cruelest month, March must be in a league of its own weather-wise. Its lengthening days are at tantalizing odds with its unwelcome snow storms. If the continuing wintry precipitation puts you in a dreary mood, we recommend skimming these adorable, weather-themed illustrations -- welcome reminders that staying indoors can be a fun adventure, so long as you've got a good book to curl up with.

Excerpted from Chronicle Books' From Rain to Rainbows, these designs submitted by illustrators with myriad styles, are arranged to tell the story of a rainy day clearing up to reveal a sunny, post-shower rainbow.

One of Mr. Boddington’s Studio's twee letter-press cards features a chic girl, umbrella in tow, and Yelena Bryksenkova's more bleak depiction of rainy days matches her folky aesthetic. To see these and other fun, weather-themed illustrations, look below!

Marc Johns
Hand-drawn illustration by Mr. Boddington’s Studio
Yelena Bryksenkova
Photo by Marlo Lavonne
Marta Milczarek
Copyright © 2012 Irène Sneddon
Blanca Gómez
CMYK by Skurtur
Miss Peden Photography
Annie Galvin, 3 Fish Studios
Cathy Connolley
Jay Fleck
Aiko Fukawa, A Squirrel, Aloe and Girl
Jen Stark
PJ Taylor
Illustration by Blanca Gómez

Before You Go

William Blake
Albert Camus
Emily Dickinson
Gustave Flaubert
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jack Kerouac
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Voltaire

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