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IN THIS HOUSE WE celebrate black women sculptors because Dark Academia has a slight Michelangelo fetish and sometimes it’s good to mix things up.  Left to Right:  Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller & Elizabeth Catlett, Selma Burke & Simone Leigh, Edmonia Lewis & Augusta Savage

#woman artists #Black artists #art history

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Moroccan woman in white, 1928, Zinaida Serebriakova

#Zenaida serebriakova

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“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

Beautifuly written- and drawn.

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Damn. Really powerful and beautifully drawn.

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based on a 18-19th century painting of gopi dressing Krishna in female attire (under the cut)

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Sarah Bernhardt will forever be my biggest celebrity crush. She was a French Jewish actress who rose to prominence in the Victorian era. Sarah was known to sleep in a coffin in order to better understand her roles (talk about method acting!!) and her good friend Victor Hugo once gifted her with a human skull. She also preferred men’s roles. She criticized roles designated for women as lacking depth and emotional range. In regards to preferring men’s roles, Sarah once stated: “The woman more readily looks the part, yet has the maturity of mind to grasp it.”

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She was also a muse for many artists

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The Apparition, 1876, Gustave Moreau

Medium: watercolor

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Deep Blue Sea

I decided to attempt mermay since I didn’t do it for past few years and I actually had a blast painting this. I hope that I’ll be able to paint a few mermay themed pieces, but I’ll see how will that go :’D Like usually, done in Photoshop CC with Wacom Cintiq 27QHD. Enjoy!

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A flood, 1870, John Everett Millais

Medium: oil,canvas

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「豊国揮毫奇術競」「滝夜叉姫」

From the series, Toyokuni kigo kijutsu kurabe. The actor Onoe Kikujirō II in the role Takiyasha hime.

-Utagawa Kunisada (also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III) 三代歌川豊国

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When you haven’t drawn Inuyasha in 15 years

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I might do a few mermaids for Mermay. This one isn’t a traditional mermaid, but a youkai called an Amabie - a mystical, mermaid-like being believed to ward off plagues. Their main features are three tail fins, scales, a beak, human-like hair and a mysterious glow.

My youngest daughter was given the option to draw one for an extension project for online learning today, and I decided to have a crack at it too. In Japan people have been sharing images of Amabie online - take that Covid-19! You can read more about the online sharing here.