Geh Bis An Deiner Sehnsucht Rand

27. always in a reverie.

[katebeckets]

idiots (affectionate)・[43/?] ⤷ 2.23 — “Soft Light”

[klarolinecentral]

I had considered offering you a first-class ticket to join me in New Orleans, but I knew what your answer would be.

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 4x23 Graduation

[vampirediariesdaily]

"I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you, that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you." – Damon to Elena, 2x18 "Rose"

"You're a beautiful, strong woman, a generous friend, and a bright light in a sea of darkness." – Damon to Caroline, 6x15 "Let Her Go"

"You, Bonnie Bennett, are an amazing woman, a mediocre crossword player, and my best friend. With great love and respect..." – Damon's letter to Bonnie, 8x10, "Nostalgia's a Bitch"

[classicalcanvas]

Morning Walk (1888) by John Singer Sargent

[history-of-fashion]

1858 Luis de Madrazo y Kuntz - Cristina de Roncali y Gaviria, the Little Marquise of Roncali

(Lázaro Galdiano Museum)

[nostalgiaispeace]

logan lerman | 2025

[classicalcanvas]

Constantinople Mosque of Top Kahne Nusretiye Mosque in Tophane Istanbul by Ivan Aivazovsky

[prideandprejudicefilms]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[wexler]

saw this clip on twitter and girl i miss you so much

[hfasghion]

zuhair murad ss26 details

[jozphinn]

lilacs in the schonbrunn gardens - april 26 🪻🌱♥︎

[ubimelibiapes]

Magdalen College, Oxford UK

[lostandfoundinprague-deactivate]

Winter Prague by J.Lauschmann

[anyataylorjoy]

Sanditon (2019-23) // Sorrow is Not My Name, Ross Gay // Becoming Jane (2007) // Spring, Claude Monet // The Young Victoria (2009) // Easter, Emily Pauline Johnson // Colette (2018) // The Sounds of Spring, Franz von Stuck // Jane Eyre (2011) // What Persists, Lisel Mueller // The Duchess (2008) // Tenebrous, Georgia Rebecca // Ophelia (2018) // Almond Blossoms, Vincent van Gogh // Sonnet III, Edna St. Vincent Millay // The Favourite (2018) // From the Desire Field, Natalie Diaz // Emma (2020) // Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) // [in Just-], E. E. Cummings // The Swing, Jean-Honoré Fragonard // Becoming Jane (2007) // Twelve Moons, Mary Oliver

[enchanted-fairytale-dreams]

[juliedillon]

A Hades and Persephone pencil drawing that I'm going to paint with watercolors :) (or rather, I'm going to print the drawing out on watercolor paper and paint that, so I don't ruin the pencil sketch)

[nikkilbook]

I’m so excited to see how this turns out! Somehow it hadn’t occurred to me that you could do a rendered under-drawing for watercolor? I thought it would get super smudgy and lose all the detail, and make the watercolor get all cloudy and muddy. The watercolors you’ve posted recent have been GORGEOUS and just as luminous as your digital stuff, so I’m so so excited to see how this one turns out.

[juliedillon]

It would likely get smudgy if I painted directly over the pencil, but I scan the drawing in, then brighten and tint it, and print it back out onto watercolor paper*. Here's a picture I took of the adjusted drawing printed out onto 140lb hot press paper; I cleaned up a few areas, and tinted the whole thing to be much warmer in tone. So far this has been working out well! I've found the drawing does a good amount of the heavy lifting, which is great because I'm finding I'm enjoying putting the extra time into the drawing instead of jumping straight into paint.

The other benefit of this method is I get to keep the original drawing! And if I mess up the painting I can just print the drawing onto another sheet of paper and start again. :)

*(note: this only works with printers that use pigment based ink, not dye based ink; dye based ink will bleed as it isn't waterproof. I have an Epson Surecolor p800 which has been great, but another artist recently recommended the Epson WorkForce Pro WF-7310 as a much more affordable alternative for printing out drawings for paintings).

[nikkilbook]

I was at a presentation recently by Carly Milligan where she was talking about her oil painting process, and she referenced a post made by Donato Giancola where he printed out his sketches/underdrawings on mixed media paper and then mounted it to a panel using matte medium. And if I recall correctly, before you apply the medium, if you have non-waterproof ink, you’re supposed to use workable fixative, and then it works. I have the slides somewhere, I can go find the link later.

Do you think something like a fixative would work to preserve a watercolor underdrawing?

[nikkilbook]

Mounting Paper to Panel

Welcome to Donato Giancola's official website, featuring over thirty years of art excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and imaginative re

Found the boy

[juliedillon]

Yeah! :D I saw a video by Donato years ago with this method, and tried it out a few times last year for acrylic paintings. It's really great for oils and acrylics.

I worry that with watercolor, any kind of medium or fixative you put on the paper is going to affect how the watercolor adheres and flows. You can get a transparent watercolor ground media (I have the Daniel Smith Transparent Watercolor Ground) that can be painted over things to allow for watercolor painting on top of different surfaces, and that might be part of a solution. Put down the fixitive, then paint over it with the watercolor ground media to prep the surface. I would recommend doing a few tests before attempting it on a drawing you like, but it's worth experimenting with!

[visvya]