#brushpen

[jonathan-e]

Heian-jingu, Kyoto. Pen and watercolour.

[thatsitso]

Lupins in blue

[flowerprintundies]

"Do what you've always done. Do what you do best. Protect me."

[counterintuitivecomics]

ROCKS RoCKS ROCkS i love to draw the rocks!

[ID: My hand holding a graph paper sketchbook with a brushpen drawing of rocks at low tide, above the actual rocks themselves. They're covered in thready chartreuse algae, which I suggest in black ink with scribbly textures and hatching. I've also drawn the sea water bubbling and rippling around the rocks, and suggested bladderwrack seaweed dumpling the water as it clings to submerged rocks.]

[ID: Me holding up another page in my sketchbook at the same rocky Eastern Turtle Island beach. I drew it sitting between the boulders of the hurricane barrier, and the foreground focuses on their texture and bulk extending all the way to the pebbly waterline. I suggested the horizon with just a few lines for the bay and seawall. The real ones line up almost exactly behind the sketch.]

[ID: 2 photos of the seaweed rocks in the water and the sweeping rocky beach without my sketchbook in the way. It's a sunny, slightly hazy afternoon in August, 2024 and no humans are around.]

[edge-lorde]

anyone else getting shades of Pygmalion/Galatea from victor? text is from ovids metamorphoses.

full transcript of the cursive under the cut (also in alt text).

Full cursive text: "…when Pygmalion, having made his offering, stood by the altar, and said, shyly: "If you can grant all things, you gods, I wish a bride to have…" and not daring to say "the girl of ivory" he said "one like my ivory girl." …

… When he returned, he sought out the image of his girl, and leaning over the couch, kissed her. She felt warm: he pressed his lips to her again and also"

[hibarikenn2]

[viktorsvoboda]

Messy traveler

[seminaldesigner]

dang RIP