Space Man and Dalek

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Director: Blake Edwards #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Thinking about projects and big things. Is it possible (or desirable) to maintain consistency and coherence over time? Thinking instead of moving from one 10 minute segment to the next.

The witch is a threshold creature. Wood's tangled border, shore's salt-line blur. For at the feral edges of the land her magic is mighty. The fluid boundary of the marsh offers reflected nephomantic glimpses, a rush of whispered wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

In an ominous ruined harbor, Saint Augustine of Hippo encounters a tiny child trying to empty the sea. Wonderfully chilling scene from 1623 by François de Nomé, whose day is today.

Lalla Ward as Helga in Vampire Circus (1972, Robert Young)

Man with Puppet sketches. Getting it wrong. Thinking I liked the turn of the head, but not sure now. Thinking about Rustin saying he didn't want his figure paintings to be anecdotal.

Soldier with Sword - 1894 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105370

The Wolf Man (1941) Stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role with Claude Rains, Warren William and Patric Knowles.

The shoe fits in the 1899 Méliès version of CINDERELLA (Georges himself plays the prince)

Giacomo Balla, Il dubbio (Doubt), 1907/1908, 67 x 50 cm, Oil on paper (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome). A portrait of the artist's wife Elisa Marcucci.

Fine, fierce leopard, painted by Maerten de Vos, who died on this day in 1603. With maybe a little idol-worship happening beyond his tail.

Problems with the Artist's Statement; 1; It makes me write with certainty.

Morris Graves, Winter Flowers (mixed media on paper, 1976)

Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?

Invocation https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19691

Book 33 from my choice of 40 from the backlist is Purity, a collection of social realist stories about immigrant, working class life in Sweden by Andrzej Tichý, translated by Nichola Smalley, published by @andotherstories.bsky.social It's brilliant. thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/p...

Even a rubbish day is a good day in the studio. Sketch book ink drawings done today.

Peter Lorre in Spring Awakening, Berlin, 1929

Excellent interview with Mary Kelly. Particularly interesting when talking about the unique hopelessness of the present moment when compared to other previously rubbish times. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Man with Puppet sketches

Man with Puppet image. Sketchbook drawing while half-to-three-quarters doing something else.

Theft of substance https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20042

study for Man with Puppet

stuttering fragment // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025 #collageart #paper #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

Sketchbooks working around Animal Bridegroom image

In my dream In my dream the shower is being slowly overrun by "encephilids" ant-like insects whose segmented bodies are swollen and mottled, veined like rancid meat. Each one I see is larger than the last. The shower's glass door slides shut, catching the ones at the top. I hear them pop and feel…

Bride

'Winter Trees.' (1890) Benjamin Haughton had a remarkable facility for painting woodland. Here, he's pictured a segment of a copse with exquisitely rendered detail which brings with it the stillness and mystery that characterizes his best landscapes.

To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the ­pleasure of being ignored.”

Pious northern landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/pious-northern-landscape-1917

Katsuko Wakasugi A Wicked Woman 1958 ‘毒婦高橋お伝’ Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa #filmsky #japan #cinema #japanese #movies #moviesky

One of my very earliest visual memories.