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“A screech-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and cried three times ‘Shu hu-hu.’” (Grimm) 🎨 Arthur Rackham #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday

The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with new concubine, who's described as having long black tresses and a face as beautiful as the moon. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom. #FairyTaleTuesday

Late Night Low Tide. #Art © Diane Griffiths

Wyrdlings! Swedish storyteller Elsa Beskow turns 152 this week, reason enough to give you: “Sabaton, Snorri, Storsjöodjuret - Strange Scandi Stories!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Come, tell tales, of elks, sea rovers and Nordic Noire!

Amazing afternoon “sun flurry” clouds on my way back from the supermarket.

My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS

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Lunch on the Grass (study) - 1865 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6668

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i just reposted ai art thinking it's real please kill me this moment

#LandscapePainting #Landscape #Art #Dreams

#clouds #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #art #sky #visualarts #peaceful

Exploring narratives which I do not want to experience but recognize that others have likely traveled through. I find I am a better person when I can empathetically related to others feelings and experiences. Orphaned 48" x 36" Oil on Panel 2010

‘But as he approached the tree, a lion jumped up from beneath it, shook himself, and roared until the leaves on the trees trembled. "I will eat up anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!" he cried.’ ~ Brothers Grimm for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Rackham

L. Birge Harrison (American, 1854–1929). Winter Sunset (1890, oil on panel).

TRIPOD WALKER (2016)
 Acrylic on Watercolor Paper - 19" x 13"

 Painted on the back of a misprinted Dark Tower image I was using as a mixing palette of mostly white, yellow ocher, and raw umber. 1/4

In Captain Upton’s House (1927), Hopper aligns rooflines and sky in carefully measured intervals. The composition gives the coastal house a clear, almost musical rhythm that echoes the spare structure and order of New England’s maritime working landscapes.

Victor Pasmore. (British, 1908-1998) Girl Sewing,1942. Oil on canvas, (62.3 x 75 cm.) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

Good morning. From my #landscape #art, #illustrationart, and #photography portfolio: "Late Winter Morning in London, 1880s"

My painting SEA PINKS

Camille Monet at the Window, Argentuile - 1873 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8202

Daily sketch 🪾🗻🥷🐈‍⬛️ I think you can spot the cat. Right ? #art #artsky #ink #sketch

In The Garden #AnjoNala #Reverse1999

Sword Saint - comm work

Illustration from Walter Crane's Painting Book, London, 1889. #booksky #artsky

Misty Morning on the Seine in Bue - 1897 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10701

Just finished my first painting of 2026, I’ce titled it ‘Woodpecker & Shadows’ - painted in watercolours. #watercolours #birdart #woodpecker 🪶

Deer girl #Deltarune

In any case here is a very large (somehow still only) adolescent dog that still thinks he’s a tiny tiny baby 🐶

This is my Timber watercolour print You Didn't Think I Would. This is about Timber's tenacity to do what she needed to do, especially when those around her didn't think she had the guts to do it. It's time to do the right thing. It's time for her to show her true strength and blow their minds.

#marten #mustelid

My painting POINT LOBOS POPPIES

Water Lilies - 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10984

My painting AUTUMN CORNFIELD

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September 9th 2024 Hydrangea

Jack, ink on claybord #samuraijack #aku #artwork #inkdrawing

Four Dead Trees - 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104243

'Sandpipers' by Julia Berman.

Water Lilies - 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10986

just learned about the pinesol twink

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Photographer, anthropologist Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt

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Jessie Newbery (186-.1948), Scottish artist and embroiderer and one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art where she was able to establish needlework as a form of unique artistic design. #womensart

Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil

This past summer in Newport. 6”x6” oil

Iridescent black🖤 #bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian #feather