starlight and seafoam

mariana | xxx | she/her “above all shadows rides the sun and stars for ever dwell; i will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell.”

[urgetocreate]

Gwenneth Barth-White, A Violet Flower, 2022, Pastel on pastel board

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. June 1907

[artfoli]

Flora (details) by Alexander Roslin (1718-1793)

[sophsun1]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as Dana Scully

The X-Files – 3.04: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

[soft-lovely]

the art of book covers

[rherlotshadow]

Bluebell fields

[rhymewithrachel]

aragorn and legolas but theyre tired camp counselors

[zecurlyone]

They’d lose the children

[wickedlittlecritta]

i mean…isn’t that what they did in canon?

[birdmans]

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY as EMMA WOODHOUSE

[7pleiades7]

Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), (Detail), (1892), by Armand Point (French, 1861 –1932), oil on canvas, 99.7 x 80.6 cm (39.3 x 31.7 in), Private Collection

[creatureprofessor]

i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession

[nightmarereverie]

[balrogballs]

ELROND & ELROS: SONS OF SIRION

i wanted to do a painting for @tolkienfashionweek but alas, time was not on my side so please accept an illustration. featuring elrond and elros in what i have decided is the traditional masculine attire commonly worn in Sirion, but with extra bling since they are, after all, royalty.

so thinking mostly in terms of sand and sea, i drew mostly from Indo-Arab maritime cultures for this one, including the Marakkar privateers along the Malabar coastline. features practicalities like rough/‘sailcloth’ textured shirts, loose harem trousers, ‘strung’ jewelry, simpler and lighter designs as opposed to heavy brocade, lots of light patterned shawls, kohl eyeliner, and headscarves.

my specific headcanon for this picture is that Elrond and Elros posed for and got this painted close to the end of the First Age for a specific purpose, ie to be sent to Elwing via one of the departing ships at the close of the War of Wrath, and she has it hanging up in her tower, although it’s also a bit depressing because the Sirion background is rendered in light, uncertain charcoal because Sirion no longer exists at that point, and the twins don’t live in climes where they can walk around in outfits like that without freezing to death. also, Elrond never sees that earring again because Maglor someone borrows it for a performance and messes up putting it into their ear and threading it through the multiple holes, and it ends up welded there forever.

[artssie]

Le Villi (1906) by Bartolomeo Giuliano

[movie-gifs]

Happy Hobbit Day! The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dir. Peter Jackson

[nimphelos]

i like my sea elves mediterranean

[goth-queen]

[mandhos]

I haven't drawn it in a long time :,)