#dawn sky

[huariqueje]

Now Here no.11. The Two Trees , Drenthe - Siemen Dijkstra , 2022.

Dutch , b. 1968 -

Colourwoodcut , 14 x 14 cm. 

[ahedderick]

Woo-hoo, finished one week after starting! Five painting sessions. Hopefully will be a good gift.

14 x 18 in, 36x46 cm on canvas panel. If I were selling it, I'd be charging around $350.

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Riding Out

Artist: Sir Francis Grant (Scottish, 1803-1878)

Date: 1839-1940

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Depicted People:

Queen Victoria

Victount Melbourne

Marquess of Conymham

Sir George Quintin

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Description

The young, recently crowned Queen is here seen riding on her horse Comus, with her dogs, Dash and Islay in front, accompanied by her court.

The procession passes through an imaginary gate in Windsor Great Park (which cannot be identified as Sandpit Gate), with a view of the castle in the far distance against a dawn sky. The Queen clearly enjoyed the creation of this very personal painting, just as she enjoyed riding out with these companions: on 31 July 1839 her journal describes Lord Melbourne sitting on a wooden horse within the artist’s studio:

‘looking so funny, his white hat on, an umbrella, in lieu of a stick in one hand, & holding the reins, which were fastened to the steps, in the other . . . it is such a happiness for me to have that dear kind friend’s face, which I do like & admire so, so like . . . and Uxbridge, George Byng, & old Quintin ludicrously like.’

[faroukmarduk]

Capbreton, Aquitaine France, July 2025, Canon EOS 550 D, Canon ef-s 10-22mm, f8.0, 1/50s, 10.0mm

The magic dawn sky over the atlantic coast not far from the Pyrénées mountains. The "rosy finger dawn", l'aurore aux doigts de rose.

[nonefrancesca]

Upon the chimney’s quiet height,

a lone bird greets the growing light;

the sky turns gold from shades of night,

and dawn begins its gentle flight.

[tokumei1ka]

It's early morning

No one is awake

[statiunitidomenica]

Oversharing pictures of the sky I took tonight

cause it was too pretty and cause I can, eheh

[geopsych]

The sky at dawn

I took the first one to show the moon and Venus before sunrise but Venus isn’t as obvious as it was in real life so I cropped a picture with the moon at the top and Venus near the bottom so you can see it.