I Learned In A Latin Studies Class (with A Chill White Dude Professor) That When The Europeans First

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Watch: She has seen a lot but this is what hurts her the most.

about 4x6" watercolors to warm up! I havent touched watercolor in almost 7 years

what are some non-ya/adult/classic books you'd recommend?

complete with a KEY because a) then you’ll know WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO, b) I KNOW WHAT I’M ABOUT, SON, and c) it’s morning, I’m in bed, I love books, this is nice 

DAYS WITHOUT END by SEBASTIAN BARRY ♥✰

THE SECRET HISTORY by DONNA TARTT ♥✰☽

THE BEACH by ALEX GARLAND ♥☽

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by EMILY BRONTË ♥⚤

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by ANDRÉ ACIMAN ♥✰☂

AS MEAT LOVES SALT by MARIA MCCANN ♥✰☂✗

MAURICE by E. M. FORSTER ♥✰

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by OSCAR WILDE ☜☽

MYSTERIOUS SKIN by SCOTT HEIM ✰✗

BIRDSONG by SEBASTIAN FAULKS ☂⚤

ATONEMENT by IAN MCEWAN ⚤

THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET by NATASHA PULLEY ✰☽

THE QUICK by LAUREN OWEN ✰☽

THE GOLDFINCH by DONNA TARTT ♥☜

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON ☽

ANNABEL by KATHLEEN WINTER ☜

TIPPING THE VELVET by SARAH WATERS ✰

THE VINTNER’S LUCK by ELIZABETH KNOX ♥✰☂☽

THE LESSONS by NAOMI ALDERMAN ✰

NEVERWHERE by NEIL GAIMAN ☽⚤

REGENERATION / THE EYE IN THE DOOR / THE GHOST ROAD by PAT BARKER ♥✰

IT by STEPHEN KING ♥☽

TELL THE WOLVES I’M HOME by CAROL RIFKA BRUNT ☜☂

THE CHARIOTEER by MARY RENAULT ✰☂

THE HOURS by MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM ✰

DEATHLESS by CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE ☂☽⚤

A HISTORY OF LONELINESS by JOHN BOYNE ☜☂✗

♥ = all time favourites✰ = queer af☜ = queer vibes, queer-adjacent, a little bit queer, was queer before it was heavily censored, etc. ☂ = I bawled☽ = fantasy, supernatural, spooky, Otherwise Unsettling Reads⚤ = het romance but OH BOY, MY HEART ✗ = tw for rape and/or CSA 

quick paint from weeks ago

Since Sunday tours of James Talbot’s home, Casa Neverlandia in Austin, Texas, are currently not available b/c of the Pandemic, we can take a virtual tour. 

James is an artist who built this home, himself. I’ve heard. It’s still a work in progress. This is the living room looking toward the front of the home.

Simply, the Red Room.

James taking tourists through. The house is also on the Weird Homes Tour in Texas, but you can’t just show up, b/c it’s his private residence. 

Kitchen & breakfast nook. He uses a gray water system and people are surprised when they hear that it has no air conditioning. 

The Record Room.

The Photo Editing Room.

2nd story area.

The Master Bedroom.

The bathroom has a toilet, but James has been using a compost toilet in the back for years. This is a picture of it in progress.

3rd story area.

Sewing room.

Tile making studio.

Bead making studio.

General construction shop.

The Moon Tower in the backyard. 

https://www.russmoorephotography.com/Neverlandia/i-sN85kHK/

Drawing reference

A quick Hot Tip for drawing shoes from me; a man who enjoys looking at shoes maybe too much

It’s good to draw some kind of foot looking shape before you draw shoes so they’re like the right size and shape but sometimes I see people draw soles as like flat things hovering under the feet but if you look at your own shoes you’ll see that the inside of your shoes are not flat, they’re bottom of your foot shaped and your feet sink into them a bit so they’re comfortable and not like slapping an oval block of wood to your foot

So the outside band on shoes is usually somewhere higher than you might think

Of course in many real shoes there’d be a bit of an arch from a raised up heel or something, so I probably should have drawn some feet instead of lazying out, but hopefully you get the idea.

Details, version II : Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström. Can you hear them whisper?

Oh my f u c k click this #pretty #art

What a sad looking Eliza :(  Maybe you should click on the image? It might make her feel better. 

Canadian painter, A. J. Casson (1898-1992).