It Has Been A Year An A Half Since I Began Painting Digitally. Before I Only Worked With Traditional

Annushka ( who had already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it but has already spilled it, so there will be no meeting)

A favorite passage from my favorite novel.

Quick painting done during boring compulsory lecture.

Art by J.R.R. Tolkien

i don’t know who this woman is. but these two nameless photos of that i think are both of her have shown up in two separate threads of photos of lesbians, a month apart. and i picked them out to attach to without even realizing it was the same woman at first. and i am hopelessly attached to her

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edit — her name is asia. both photos were taken by chloe sherman in san francisco, in 1996. [x] [x]

people in here, if you like apocaliptic alien sci-fi shit you can watch The Eternaut on Netflix, an argentinian show based on a comic book from 1957 whose creator (Héctor Germán Oesterheld) and his family were abducted by one of the many military dictatorships in my country

the story happens in Buenos Aires and explores the ideas of community and strenght against the opressors, and also contains lots of Argentina dope amazing references and insults

its motto is "no one survives alone", a really necessary message in our times

you may know its main actor, Ricardo Darin, from The Secret in Their Eyes (Best Foreign Film 2010, winner), Wild Tales (Best Foreign Film 2015, nominated) and Argentina, 1985 (Best Foreign Film 2023, nominated)

The Eternaut comic book is considered as one of the most important latin-american sci-fi works ever, and it's culturally respected because it's the product of a really dark time in our history (the Netflix adaptation is set today tho)

I was looking at poetry that Jane Austen might have read and I came across Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She sounds like an amazing woman. She thought her governess was dumb, so she hid in the family library and, "She taught herself Latin, a language usually reserved for men at the time. She secretly got a hold of a "Latin dictionary and grammar" and by the age of thirteen, her handling with the language was on par to most men. Furthermore, she was also a voracious reader."

She married an ambassador to the Ottoman empire and brought smallpox inoculation back to England. She was also a poet and important writer. In addition, she laughed at poet Alexander Pope (he is quoted in Austen's works) when he declared his love for her. (pictured below). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu)

The fact that someone heard about this proposal and then painted it is *chef's kiss*

(Edit) Here is the poem I used in a story:

A Hymn to the Moon

Written in July, in an arbour Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps through the woodland shade; Thou conscious witness of unknown delight, The Lover's guardian, and the Muse's aid! By thy pale beams I solitary rove, To thee my tender grief confide; Serenely sweet you gild the silent grove, My friend, my goddess, and my guide. E'en thee, fair queen, from thy amazing height, The charms of young Endymion drew; Veil'd with the mantle of concealing night; With all thy greatness and thy coldness too.

Luthien Tinuviel in the halls of Menegroth

"As Beren looked into her eyes

Within the shadows of her hair

The trembling starlight of the skies

He saw there mirrored shimmering.

Tinuviel the elven-fair,

Immortal maiden elven-wise,

About him cast her shadowy hair

And arms like silver glimmering"

Rumors of his death were much exagerated. 1hr sketch. May finish it decently in the future

Captains James Clark Ross and Francis R. M. Crozier, just back from Antarctica, posing for a portrait.

(I am still falling down the firehole, can't seem to reach the sea. It's embarassing.

The two captains are now living rent free in my brain. Just what I needed. But they are quite fun to paint😊. )

This is just a rough sketch but I am quite happy about how it's turning out. I may have spent way too much time blending portraits, photographs and statues into cohesive faces, but it was worth it.