Nero And Seneca, By Eduardo Barrón (1904)

The Woman of the Waters, worshipped by the People of Franagr. She appears in the mists around the many waterfalls, where the many rivers of her lands plunge in the Sea. She is full of a terrible knowledge, as she sees and hears anything, be it past, present or future, that was ever reflected in a waterdrop.

It is to her that the man that was Menes asked for advice, at a terribile price.

It is to her that the Dreamer that was a man asked for a way to save his people.

And it is to her that Arual, our Dreamer, will come eventually, after her mad flight between the worlds.

Quick painting in Artflow (abt 3/4 hrs)

Random landscape sketch (a stock photo study done in about 40 min). Keen eyed people may spot my lovely OC strolling around as a dark silhouette.

THE FOOL ON THE HILL .     recorded: September 25-27 / October 20, 1967       filmed: October 31, 1967, in Nice

PAUL: I used to know Marijke [member of “The Fool”, the Dutch design collective and band], she was a quite striking-looking girl. She used to read my fortune in Tarot cards, which was something I wasn’t too keen on because I didn’t want to draw the death card one day. I still don’t like that kind of stuff because I know my mind will dwell on it. I always steered a bit clear of all that shit, but in fact it always used to come out as the Fool. And I used to say, ‘Oh, dear!’ and she used to say, ‘No no no. The Fool’s a very good card. On the surface it looks stupid, the Fool, but in fact it’s one of the best cards, because it’s the innocent, it’s the child, it’s that reading of fool.’ So I began to like the word ‘fool’, because I began to see through the surface meaning. I wrote ‘The Fool on the Hill’ out of that experience of seeing Tarot cards. (…) I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn’t taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to. I remember once hearing about a hermit who missed the Second World War because he’d been in a cave in Italy, and that always appealed to me. I was sitting at the piano in at my father’s house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord and I made up ‘Fool on the Hill’. There were some good words in it, ‘perfectly still’, I liked that, and the idea that everyone thinks he’s stupid appealed to me, because they still do. Saviours or gurus are generally spat upon, so I thought for my generation I’d suggest that they weren’t as stupid as they looked. [myfn]

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PAUL: It was during that time, A-levels time, I remember thinking, in many ways I wish I was a lorry driver, a Catholic lorry driver. Very very simple life, a firm faith and a place to go in my lorry, in my nice lorry. I realised I was more complex than that and I slightly envied that life. I envied the innocence. [myfn]

Blackwood(Rivers) siblings together. Mya, Brynden and Gwenys.

About a year ago I was sitting in a really shitty corporate cafe and reading a book about medieval astronomy. There was a passage about how when we look up at the sky, we see titanic balls of gas all whirling about according to physics, but when a medieval person looked up at the sky, they saw literal divine clockwork turned by uncountable invisible spirits.

I was sitting in a shitty cafe, and I had a moment of realization. I knew logically that's how people used to see the night sky, but something about that moment just clicked. I felt what I can only describe as intellectual vertigo, as I realized "holy shit the world is really different than it was 700 years ago."

Sir James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier Adventures in Antartica on TV when?

Come on, it got everything! Love! Amazing seamanship! Bird shooting! Penguins running amok! Sailors vs Icebergs! Bromance! Birdshit Island!

Anyway, I think it should happen.

The Dreamer in Alagadda.

This sketch is still far from finished but i love it and I can't wait to paint it.

I hate having to sketch with so much detail but 3 point perspective is a b***h.

It makes me so, so angry when I see those posts that are like "HORRIFYING EARLY PLASTIC SURGERY RESULTS FROM WW2," because all of those lists are full of images that aren't the final result and are used for pure shock value. Harold Gillies, who performed most of those surgeries, was an incredibly talented surgeon. Here are some images of the full results of his surgeries.

I need to emphasize that I can't post the "before" pictures that go with these because the men did not have faces. The injuries were so extensive that these men were missing nearly all of their facial features, and through cutting-edge techniques that "looked scary" at the time (e.g. extensive skin grafts), Gillies saved these men from a medical nightmare.

Gillies performed the world's first ftm bottom surgery for trans man Michael Dillon and pioneered mtf bottom surgery! Respect his legacy.

I remembered reading the webtoon during quarantine and I stumbled on this on Netflix. And lo and behold my faves are amazing even in live action.

Also can we agree that my guy is a mood?

SWEET HOME  스위트홈  (2020)

After a long traditional, personal and serious-ish art phase I am back on my digital self indulgent fun!

Process snippet from a work in process. It started as the study of a painting... but I was listening to a lecture on Catilina's conspiracy and it all turned Rome - themed. Also my less unfinished boy is looking suspiciously Caesar-y.