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been playing skyrim again

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

charl0ttan

something earth shattering going on here

emily84

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

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THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

clayandsorcery

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

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michael koehler

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michael hussar

theliteralbear

Stained Glass Can of Sardines : Renske van Barschot

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michael divine

skweebs

ICE AGE EXHIBIT AT THE MUSEUM!!!!!

REAL NEANDERTHAL ARTIFACTS!!!!!

CAVE BEAR!!!!

THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL!!!!!!!!!

skweebs

GIFT SHOP HAD THE BOOK I WANTED AAAAAAGHG

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AUTISM SICKO MODE

I had a really good convo with one of the volunteer educators who had neanderthal artifacts that I was able to touch and hold! One oldowan tool that was a replication and an actual hand axe that fit into my hand perfectly. I got to touch a replication of a neanderthal skull and we talked a lot about neanderthal art and culture! He told me I reminded him of his daughter who had the same fervor for prehistoric anthropology and he later came by and called me a "very interesting guest" when I was talking to another volunteer that let me hold a real mammoth tooth. That's the power of autism baby!

Forgot to add an alt text for the first image sorry!

(Image id: a picture of the book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes, it's a white book with small black and white illustrations of a shell, a flint knife and a claw printed under the title. End id)

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Some of the jellyfish seen during the Schmidt Underwater livestreams in the Conicet Oases of Mar del Plata Canyon expedition

skf-fineart

Mayan plate with monkey tail in spiral

Date: c. 300-850 AD

Collection: Museo Nacional de Antropología, México

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Square Bloom

quilt by Jo Wollschlaeger

2nd place in American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge, QuiltCon 2025

this challenge focused on the illusion of transparency in quilting.

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So I noticed this was second place in a contest.

So I looked up first place:

This is "Light Me Up" by Lindsey Berres. Closeups here.

Here is the (partial?) gallery of entrants on the QuiltCon website, but the image files are so large that I literally can't load them so have a selection of much lower quality screengrabs from this video tour instead...