New work. Swallows in spring.

Anyone else watch apocalyptic shows with aliens/viruses/climate disaster/"terrorists" with nuclear capacity and end up rooting for the aliens/viruses/climate/"terrorists"? Just askin'. lol. 😇 Not quite sure Netflix and co understand their audience yet. 🤷

I’ve been painting this street for years. It might actually be finished.

Pascal, oil on canvas, continued

I miss Lago di Como and warm weather 🌞

'Lighting Up.' (c1960) Leslie Worth was one of Britain's finest watercolourists despite never having had a lesson in watercolour at any of the three colleges of art where he studied - rooted largely in the native Romantic traditions, he produced wonderfully quirky pieces of work.

Chilling in the summer house 🦤 #sciart

Current self-portrait. Oil on linen mounted on board, 16 x 20

'Carl, NHS Hero', oil on canvas board, 16inches x 12inches. 2020

"the compromise of etiquette" #mixedmedia #drawing, 70 x 70 cm

Bezos has just let slip the backdoor to defeating the monster he created: just unionize! ✊

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fresh finished on the drawing wall today 'giant on the hill' #mixedmedia #drawing 70 x 70 cm

In south korea, you saw what happens when an opposition party doesn't want a coup to happen. in america you are seeing what happens when it does

"a different different" a new direction... #mixedmedia #drawing

In 'Going Home,' (c1889) Tom Roberts depicts the silhouetted forms of a man and a woman, their arms linked, walking along a pavement at sunset. A swiftly painted image in a limited range of colours and tones to convey an impression of the last light of the evening. #australiaday

"UNTIL THE LION LEARNS TO WRITE EVERY STORY WILL GLORIFY THE HUNTER." African proverb

“We’d like to ask you some questions.”

a little #drawing "always bird's plan" originally from The Gullibles' Travails, but briefly on show at le lavomatik #arts #urbains #galerie #paris13 - before it flies away.

'The Bandstand,' (c1931) Walter Sickert had considerable influence on Edward Morland Lewis's choice of subject and in doing so enhanced his apprentice's reputation as a draughtsman. This is one of a small group of studies featuring brass bands.

Smoker

The Plant Thief #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks #picturebooks #illustration #plants

Legal pad

Charlotte Salomon created 1,325 paintings from 1940 to 1942 called 'Life? or Theatre?,'an autobiographical account of her life, they include this self-portrait. Charlotte and her husband Alexander were deported from France to Auschwitz where they were both murdered in 1943.

Winter time #sciart

Kelp forest is a forest too #sciart

The smell of a fresh home-cooked is one of the best smells. 🥘 #kidlitart #illustration #art

Hedley with a cat, 30cm x 40cm, oil on panel 2025

Looking out of the window, small oil paintings from January 2025.

Gecko

more than fashion "night out with yellow laces" 2016

‘Sleuthing’

Rodent pals

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Victoria, I make pictures with gouache and other analog media, and I'm looking for new projects! Also open for animal painting commissions: victoriamaderna.com/animal-paint... [email protected] victoriamaderna.com #art #illustration

Glance

Fetch

New illustration. Birbs in Genoa 🕊️ #sciart

'remember me'

misinformation is a very real issue, the problem was it was folded into a power-flattering pseudo epistemology where only grimy foreigners and YouTubers were capable of doing it when some of the biggest promoters of misinformation are the NYT and Atlantic. This bred cynicism and indifference.

'hellnation'

Somewhere in New York City 😆

Bear gets introduced to the Great Bear constellation ✨️ 🐻 ✨️ #kidlitart #illustration #art #bear

Winter coat

The Democrats think Republicans are children for whom appropriate behavior in the face of a tantrum can be modeled but that they’re also father whose every mood swing has to be considered as too scary to question.

The concept of scarcity is not natural but a product of capital’s marketing practices. Without scarcity, market prices could not form. If relative scarcity does not exist then it has to be created, if only to ensure market forces and allocations can function. [1/2]

Winter time ❄️ 🦊 #sciart

New year, new illustration :-) #sciart