Figure drawing practice taken from an image of #LewisPullman. Not great likeness, I know, but I wanted to attempt the shadows #ArtYear #art

Charles Tunniclffe is one of my favourite illustrators. I am sharing his work from this Tea Card album (1961).

It's Friday - & that means, once again, that it's #FireHydrantFriday! 'Still-life of Fire hydrant & Postbox' Seen in the north #Devon village of #Appledore #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #urbangaze #urban

According to a Flemish folktale, a rich, greedy farmer who stole from his farmhands was condemned to haunt this world in the shape of a duck after his death. Sometimes he appeared as a dog that bullied the non-ghost animals. Eventually, the ghost was banished to a woodshed. #PhantomsFriday

'Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? The transient pleasures as a vision seem, And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.' – John Keats in 1814 in a letter to his brother Thomas who was on his deathbed. #PhantomsFriday #poetry #booksky

'A Wicked Voice' by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) is ghost story, time slip & fever dream all at once. It's taken me a whole week to read this short story & I feel like I've read a whole novel — feeling quite dazed, with a need to re-read it. But not immediately. #PhantomsFriday #ShortStories

'That she as spectre haunteth there Is only known to me' -Thomas Hardy 🎨Alphonse Osbert #PhantomsFriday

There's a dream I have - walking beside a river not of water but churning static. No cry of gulls. Just an unbroken hum. #PoemsAbout #Tanka

It’s an Icelandic tradition that the dead rise from their graves on New Year’s Eve. The shrouded ones enter the church, hold a mass and then vanish… #PhantomsFriday Aleksander Gierymski (1850-1901)   Old Woman Watching Over a Dead Body II

“In my house I am helpless I begin to practice superstition I hear footsteps on the stairs Keeps on haunting me (I know there's no one there) ... ” ~ a great northern soul classic from R Dean Taylor (1966), you may have heard the cover version by The Fall (1988). #PhantomsFriday

'Ghost Mother and Child' - unknown Japanese artist, ca. 1890s. #PhantomsFriday #JapaneseArt

Sometimes i just like to set up finished work and have a gander

#TheAlienObservers So many stay closed off, shut in, trapped within themselves. Yet they would unfold at the warmth of another’s interest.

Pictures that explain things Contour lines Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Understanding Map, 1967)

Maya the Cat Girl

Creating beauty beyond simple mechanics. Carl Jung

Muhammad Ali, because brave people make you feel brave too.

Bed of frogs, Germany, C15th. #FrogsForFriday

Side effects may include: dry mouth, nausea, astral projection

Friday. youtube.com/watch?v=E1xa...

It shouldn’t be this difficult to explain to people living in the 21st century why invading countries so that you can pillage their natural resources is a bad thing.

Facts

Winter is a wonderful time to appreciate the subtle patterns and textures of different tree barks. #nature #art

"I felt my body melt...it seemed to me that I too was turning fluid & vaporous, in order to mingle with these sounds... I understood... that his singing must be cut short... that he was killing this woman, & killing me also" Vernon Lee, 'A Wicked Voice' #amreading #shortstories #bookchatweekly

They can't beat the arts and the artists. We are like mushrooms, we just pop up again - through cracks in the cement if necessary

And what if the world has failed us And we have, in turn, failed the world For here, this morning— you and I, #unadorned, content, heart to heart #vss365 #poetry

Henry Jones Sr's book from Last Crusade vibes.

Second finished project of the year - #medievalsky #plague #crossstitch #craftsky

I'm not fat. I just have presence.

A737.1 Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon.

I'm thinking if you wish harm on anyone you might just be a pos.

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

‘I’m really sorry, honey.’ ‘Well, you were wrong, as usual.’ ‘I got you a make up gift.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘It’s a family heirloom. It used to #adorn my grandma’s wrist. I know you like that sorta thing.’ ‘Wow. I love it. It’s so shiny.’ ‘Yep.’ ‘Hey, why does it say Do Not Resuscitate?’ #vss365

“Hold it! There’s a car across the street—you sure you weren’t followed, Mary?”

Another all time classic book cover art by the chap who brought us the 70s Puffin 'Dark is Rising' art too

crazy coincidence that ai isn’t being used to empower women

"We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?" #BookologyThursday 'Goblin Market' By Christina Rossetti (1862) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/... 🎨Amalie Mathilde Bauerle (1873-1916), 'Goblin Harvest', c. 1910

Today's abstract concept is beauty. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract

Duelling monkeys. psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 205v. #medieval #medievalart

Never in all my days had I heard anything comparable... a chorus of children, singing absolutely independent of time & tune... slow Gregorian modulation interrupted by jaunty barrel-organ pipings, an insane, insanely merry jumble of... mewing & cackling & braying V Lee, A Wicked Voice #shortstories

Boats in the Flood https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/boats-in-the-flood-1937

Graham Chapman #botd 8 January

Back at work this week and I wanted to share something that's actually a cool history post and not just, like, anti-imperialist rage. This is a Buddhist 'dharani' amulet found in a tomb at Chang'an (modern Xi'an) in northern China. It was *printed* (probably by monks) circa 650-670 CE.

Pilgrim's Ampulla with Scenes of the Crucifixion (front) and the Ascension (back) https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.46.b

"It's ok, it's just your mind"

Vernon Lee, 'A Wicked Voice' Songs 🧵 #shortstories

kinda crazy that 2026 has been going on for years already but it’s only day 7

Never gets old seeing dudes with bios like "Hubert R. Dweebest Memorial Professor of Law, Fartingham University" reply "yeah well what's YOUR plan to fix the country" to a guy whose last post was "jabba tha butt"