half bloom

if I know what love is, it is because of you

[design-is-fine]

Acquaintance cards, a variety of calling cards, 1870s-80s. USA. Via dangerousminds. More to see: Mays / flickr. They were used “by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.”

[nickiezimov]

Lovers In A Day & Night 1.1

25x25 cm. oil on canvas, ink, acrylic powder

Nickie Zimov

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[aardciaga]

so happy its warmer out now

[night-the-starfish]

Girls' night, gouache on paper.

[littlestpersimmon]

Recent portraits of cats I painted for people :]

[nathanheadphotography]

Cosmic Blue Ocean

[1five1two]

'L'apres midi'. Olivier Neuray. 2026.

[lamignonette]

[sexcromancy]

Miloš Tomić's "Book of stains, holes, and patches." Posted here by an art books blogger; unfortunately the linkback there goes out to a broken website. Tomić's instagram is here.

[image ID: three photos of an art book, open to three different page spreads. the pages are made out of pieces of textile, each stained or torn or worn through in a different way. one has the neckline of a tshirt at the top. the pages are bound into stiff endboards. end image ID.]

[gothredy]

[faun-grove]

fine. ogle if you must 🙄

[emmaklee]

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

[bothpalms]

Baba's domain 🐈 Collab with @ceeejus 🌟

[ieafy]

Dryandra + Kalbarri 2025

[salmon-n-hazel]

Lilies of the valley

✿ Print shop: INPRNT

[knightotoc]

"I miss Odysseus; my heart is melting. / The suitors want to push me into marriage, but I spin schemes... By day I wove the web, / and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it."

I made this feverish, unwinding loom for @youremysunshine8 's bday, since she is reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

It's made from an old painting frame with the canvas removed. I painted the wood a darker color and hammered in a couple hundred tacks, which I strung with white yarn.

The weaving itself took a long time, since I've never done that before and wasn't using a real loom, though I did make a make-shift heddle from a ruler. The meander is woven in soumak, which means you wrap the weft around each warp instead of just going over-under; this takes a long time but gives it a really cool dimension.

I carved Penelope's hands from chipboard, and painted them the same color as the loom. I wanted to convey the "muscular, firm hand" from Wilson's translation.

[jagalart]

Hue 17

Kitties are back on menu! This one was commissioned by the best @havranil , thank you again, it was super fun <3

[uglyfruit]