Colleen Moran

Illustrator/ old soul. living for the inspiration... commissions open

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Helen Lundeberg  -  The Veil   (oil on board, 1947)

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Timely Reminder: Martin Luther King Jr was a radical who disrupted the “peaceful” status quo. The majority of white Americans hated him and the FBI feared him. King wasn’t about “moderation” and he had some thoughts on people who stayed silent, or who tried to be centrist in their approach to politics and social justice. Doing what is morally correct is always going to guarantee you make enemies. Martin was an organized dreamer, not a pragmatist. King routinely spoke of doing the impossible. 

Being a moderate centrist is probably one of the best ways to dishonor MLK’s dream of justice and equality for all. Because in many ways, when people take their cues from cautiously silent “moderates,” they can be even more harmful than vitriolic Republicans.

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Here’s the letter if you’re looking for a good use of your time: http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/kingweb/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf

Some quotes:

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.“ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.“ 

One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with.

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Daredevil - Created by David Buisan

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Halloween Alternative Poster - Created by Rich Davies

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Copper alloy hollow cast statue of the priestess Takushit at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

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Universal Monsters

Art by Alex Ross

#Comics #AlexRoss #UniversalMonsters #Frankenstein #Dracula #Mummy #Wolfman #BrideOfFrankenstein #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon #InvisibleMan #Horror

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She’s Got It Where It Counts - Created by Mark Englert

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Halloween, 2016, Bo Bartlett

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Overwatch Character Illustrations - Created by Zaina

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Didier Ben Loulou

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Classic Horror Film Posters - Created by Nicolas Delort

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Light. Darkness. Balance - Created by Marc Aspinall

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Her Moon

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L’aigle

Portraiture is an art form going back to ancient Egypt, over 5,000 years ago. Long before the camera, a painted, sculpted, or drawn portrait was the only way to record what someone looked like and document visual history. The portraits that have survived still serve to immortalize the past, just as the inscriptions bearing the names of royalty. The artist tried to express how his muse wanted to be seen and craft how history would see them. 

Commissioned Portrait paintings have become rare among leading modern artists. Instead contemporary artists tend to paint themselves, their friends or lovers in whatever way they please. Digital photography is more and more common, making what was formerly an expensive luxury product affordable for just about everyone. 

Portraits have far more purpose than just a means to record. They have been used to show the power, importance, nobility, beauty, wealth, taste and other qualities of the sitter. 

Artist Kestin Cornwall’s new mixed-media work incorporates classic portraiture references with his new-age hybrid art image creation methods of combining hand drawing, digital image making, screen-printing, ink transfer, acrylic and aerosol painting. The mediums create a visually alien yet clam, earth like environment for his muse to live in.

Web - kestincornwall.com

studio - studiocalavera.com

Art Rep - @MIKEWHITESMITH

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Photo Booth, Austin, TX, Photo by Dan Winters, 2003_files

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