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☆ Lily ☆ She/her ☆ Autistic with Fibromyalgia ☆ Traditional artist ☆ Please, don't use/repost ☆ Buy me a Ko-fi! ☕️ ☆Thanks for the support 💕

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"Garden of the Lord" 🌹🌿

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“To you, Mary, fountain of life, my thirsty soul approaches.

To you, treasure of mercy, my misery turns with confidence.

How close you are, indeed intimate to the Lord! He dwells in you and you in Him.

In your light, I am given to contemplate the light of Jesus, the Sun of justice.”

— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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"In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph"🕊👑

I was supposed to post this on 13th of May for the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, but I wasn't managed to finish it on time, so I post it now instead. I'm pretty happy of how it turned out, I'm discovering that I truly, truly love drawing Our Lady, for me it's a way to stay with her and think about her, as if I do it when I'm praying or meditating 🥹💙🙏🏻

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"Mary Mystical Rose,

Mary Rose of Roses,

Pray for us!"

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May is the month dedicated to Our Mother. As her children, lets spend some of our time with her: that's the most beautiful way to honour her in this very special month, the best gift we can give to her. May can become the opportunity to rediscover and deepen our love and devotion to our sweetest Mother 🙏🏻❤️

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Mater Boni Consilii, ora pro nobis 🙏🏻🌹

Today is the Good Sheepherd Sunday, but also is 26 April, the feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel. I've made this drawing to celebrate both this feast dedicated to our beloved Mother and my birthday, that is today too! ☺️💙

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Saint Bernadette Soubirous 🌷

It was so beautiful working at this illustration while praying her novena, now I feel like I've got a new, precious friend 💙

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Mary and Child Jesus 🌹🕊

Drawing made for my mom's birthday, that was this week ☺️💕

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"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." 🕊

Christ is risen. I wish everyone a Holy Easter! ☺️🙏🏻❤️

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"The Golgotha"

'Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last '

(Luke 23:46)

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“Hosanna to the Son of David!”🌿

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”✨️

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”🕊

Happy Palm Sunday🙏🏻😇

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"Holy Mother" 🕊🌹

"[...]In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, "Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you." But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God." Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.[...]"

The Annunciation - Luke 1:26-38

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St. Joseph 🌷🌟

19th March was the feast of St. Joseph. I tried my best to finish this in time, but I wasn't able to, bacause I had a bit of trouble with inspiration after I got home from the hospital. At the end I've decided to post it on the day of spring equinox that is today! I was still in hospital when I've started having my feed full of posts about him and so I've started think and learning a lot about him, so much that I gelt the inspiration to draw him, and I've done it in the form of a kitty because, as I've already told, lately I enjoy very much drawing animals, in particular I like to draw people like anthropomorphic cats ☺️ It is done with love and with no intention of be disrespectful (if there is need to say it). I'll surely draw other saints like this one, because I'm really into Christian themes lately 💙🌷

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"The first snow" 🦊❄️

I was supposed to post this one in January since it was the first drawing I finished in the new year (I remember I was working on this the night between 31 December and 1st January, eheh!☺️), but when it comes to my original drawings I'm always so insicure, and I always procrastinate so much before posting that most of the times I'll ends up not posting at all. So now we are almost in spring and this drawing will pop out way too late, but technically we're still in winter and, you know, even if you can't call it the first snow, sometime it has happened that snowed in March, or even April! 🧐

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Farewell to Imladris 🍂

My intention was to post this before, and for today, for Aragorn birthday, doinga fanart of his incoronation. But before I could start to work on that drawing, I've been hospitalized for a pretty serious infection an it's already 9 days that I'm here, in this hospital. So today I've thought to post this drawing instead, since there is Aragorn anyway.

Happy 1st of March and happy birthday to our beloved King! 💕🌹👑

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Lately I have discovered that I really enjoy drawing animals (in particular cats, because I truly love cats💕) and since with my sister are reading Tolkien atm, my autistic brain has thought of combining the two and... well, this is the result. I'm quite satisfied, I must say, and I'm already working on more drawings like this one. I'm having a lot of fun and I really hope someone else will enjoy it ☺️💙

Also, I made this for Valentine's Day, of course 🌹✨️

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"Forgive me dear friend if I bring you to a place where you will see so painful and violent things; I need you to come alongside me, through the battlefield where glory encounters sorrow, in the darkness where I've chosen to seek my fate".

The night before the battle ✨️

I've finally managed to draw a little fanart of my beloved Eowyn and, even if there are some things I would like to adjust with my digital style (I would like to achieve a softer and more "traditional" look, because I truly miss traditional art, which I cannot do atm due to my chronic illness), I am pretty satisfied with the result. The little thing I've written under the drawing are Eowyn thoughts before her final battle, thoughts that I've imagined she direct to her horse, the only one that knows what she had in mind to do 🥺🥀

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Deedlit ✨️

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Kaiserin Elisabeth of Austria 🌹

I have a deep love for her ever since I was a child, and the more I grow and the more I learn new things about her my love grows too. Anyone else that loves the beautiful empress? 💙

(About the drawing, I've used my imagination for the dress and so, but I would like to do some more attempts to draw her in others well known dresses like the edelweiss one, or doing my version of the beautiful paintings where she is portrayed with her super long hair down 😍)