+ SILVERTHORN +

Amateur Antiquarian. Watercolour Enthusiast. Queer Artist.

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Hyacinthus 🪻

12 x 9 inches

Watercolour, gold leaf, and gold thread on paper.

2025

[twinktorturer]

studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

[thedronesneedyou]

i'll never live down the time i was talking with a friend and i said "given recent events". my friend said "what recent events?" and i had to reply "the Protestant Reformation"

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Professor, my dreams grow darker. Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Chapter 21, Flight

[silverthorns-midashorns]

The Master and Margarita

[autumncrowcus]

Kindly consider the question: What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? Shadows are cast by objects and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. Trees and living beings also have shadows. Do you want to skin the whole earth, tearing all the trees and living things off it, because of your fantasy of enjoying bare light?

-Satan/Woland in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[sosooley]

дьявол уже легли и просють

а вам, мастер, особое приглашение нужно? посадочные огни?

[denny1416]

Iker Spozio, Il Maestro e Margherita, 2012

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Snow white

[7777777awawawa7777777]

the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

[hlblng]

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burned the topless towers of Ilium?" - Marlowe

Helen standing at the wall of Troy looking out at the camps of the Greek. The pattern of the dress depicts a fight scene inspired by black figure pottery

[blemgoid]

love david and goliath being like one of the main bible stories for kids. like yeah you might be small but with god on your side you can kill someone with a rock

[shenzi-hemlock]

Oh so when golden boy David does it, he’s heroic and a man after God’s own heart, but when I, CAIN-

[gothsbian]

i should have been born a flamboyant aesthete fag in the early 20th century so i could go to audacious parties and write mediocre poetry and die of alcohol poisoning at 32 without having contributed anything to society except serving cunt in a fur coat and semiregular emotional breakdowns

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Study of Gustave Moreau's "Jacob and the Angel".

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

July 2023

[silverthorns-midashorns]

Narcissus.

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

July 2023

[silverthorns-midashorns]

There's gotta be at least 49 frogs

$90

Watercolour on paper

8x8 inches

[karmacores]

biblically accurate jellyfish