Stuff

[loish]

Wrinkles and textured skin are beautiful, vibrant, and full of life. Folds and loose skin have beautiful shapes and volumes. If you view aged skin through the eyes of an artist, you gain a deep appreciation of its beauty 🖤 That’s why we drew wrinkles and folds for last month’s drawing challenge, and guess what, I enjoyed it so much that I’ll probably do it again! 👵 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you like drawing challenges, join us: we’re creating sunset and sunrise studies this month! A perfect opportunity to practice your environment skills and study the beautiful colors that nature gives us. Check it out here ✨

[withnailrules]

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

[loish]

Listen, I’m still afraid of inks because they’re so permanent. But I’m trying to embrace them more and be a bit bolder with them. Baby steps!

[empress-of-dark2005]

[poetry-siir]

[artbylittlebug]

[pisces-core]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mauro Martinez aka Mauro C. Martinez (Mexican-American, b. 1986, Laredo, TX, USA, based San Antonio, TX, USA) - Baptized In The Fire, Paintings: Oil

[loish]

Smudging charcoal on paper with my hands gives me the ICK. I just can’t handle the feeling. I got goosebumps just thinking about it 😓But I love the style so I drew this on my iPad, and my hands feel clean and moisturized. Yay! ✨

[littlestpersimmon]

cave angel fish

[heavenlycreatures]

finland, pietarsaari, 2020

[musubiarte]

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller

[headspace-hotel]

today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.

The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."

Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response

[headspace-hotel]

what I mean is, there is a persistent fallacy that the present situation of a thing is always worse than the past, even if there have been fluctuations in badness.

This is not true. There is a great wealth of specific cases where ecosystems/species/a specific anthropogenic impact on the environment is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, better than it has been at any point in the past 100 years

[headspace-hotel]

I've been researching the history of conservation in the USA...and I think current doomers would benefit from knowing just how bad things got throughout the 20th century.

The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.

In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.

I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!

We actively tried to exterminate so many species. Bison. Wolves. Mountain lions. The US GOVERNMENT PAID PEOPLE TO KILL CARNIVORES. They're still here. They're reclaiming their old territories. All is not lost

[bogleech]

There was a time most American cities almost never saw a blue sky. Brown and yellow smog was the norm and rivers were garbage sludge that are now teeming with fish. People don't know that government environmental regulation actually did succeed, that the EPA really worked as intended. Now it gets eroded because people think it isn't making a big difference, and they think that because they haven't seen what it's still holding back.

[charnel-grounds]

The Vampire Dancer | Vampyrdanserinden | 1912 | dir. August Blom

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast

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[whatsallthisnow]

I could not have anticipated that transformation if you had told me ahead of time

[redlipstickresurrected]

Gustav Sundin aka Gustav de Abreu Sundin (Swedish, b. 1982, based Torekov, Sweden) - The Yellow Door, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Panel

[stallation]

Urs Fischer