#autodidact

[victusinveritas]

Link to one of those courses here.

Want to learn more about Digital Humanities instead?

Or maybe Omens, Oracles, and Prophecies.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Virtually attending Wee Con. Loving the point made during The David Jenkins School of Historical Accuracy panel that clouds weren’t formally classified until 1802.

Ed is a trailblazer in cloud recognition and cloud function. An autodidact, ahead of his time. But even so, farmers and sailors described clouds for years using imaginative terms such as ‘woolly’, to describe shape and appearance. Ed here, isn’t really saying anything outside of the remit of his profession. So, Izzy is either genuinely very limited, or being deliberately obtuse. Pick your poison, I guess.

[lionofchaeronea]

I'm going to take some time in the coming months and learn as much as I feasibly can about botany. Why? No compelling reason, other than that I a) love plants and b) don't know anywhere near as much as I ought to about them.

[illbehomewithyou]

Today I got really into the art of Maxfield Parrish. It’s the way he paints light. I stumbled across his work because I was looking at artists who depict fairy tales and similar. But it’s his later landscapes I love, inspired by his New Hampshire home and his time in Arizona.

These paintings put me in mind of photos I have taken. I’ve been back through my gallery and found some of them. I’ll post them and also use some of them for ideas for my own art.

Don’t know if I’m going off-curriculum already but I don’t care. I’m fascinated by Parrish’s work and want to explore ways to depict light and colour myself. My art skills are extremely limited. It is going to be a massive learning curve.

[callingcrows]

a fairy's daydream. March 2026. L♡

[isumichi]

Repairing sleeve cuffs like an autodidact: I wanna wear that sweater, but not like that! But I absolutely can't repair it invisible like, so I did this:

No planning, no nothing, so: hmmmm... first colour: yarn is to thick (splits yarn in half), second colour: better! But maybe I should neaten up and secure the cuffends first? (Does that), almost finished with the cuff, hm, the first two panels look funky compared to the rest (rips our the first two colours to neaten up, secure and restich that part of cuff).

That's me. Might have got it done in less time with a bit more research, but...

[lafilledanslaville]

learning a new language after getting to a comfortable place in another is so difficult.. like what do you mean i have to learn a whole new set of grammar and also ever single word ever

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

I always looked at painting. And at some point I said, Why not me? I spent fifteen years trying to get somewhere. I started getting somewhere when I was forty-five. My good fortune was that I never learned painting from teachers...The critics have always been against me. All of them, always. Recently there have been a few who say I'm a genius and things like that, but it doesn't mean anything. I will be dead before I know who I am, because such knowledge takes time. Only with time can you begin to see value.

Francis Bacon in conversation with Marguerite Duras • La Quinzaine littéraire, 1979