#toteardown

[chuggingchai]

I feel like you've been changing direction in what you post. I like it.

Thanks! :)

[silkyblackgold]

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[whitetaildesigns]

l would like to just take this very small moment and wish my most dear friend, LosPalmer, a wonderful birthday. Thank you for being one of the most important people in my life. I’m so glad that we have built such a strong friendship and that I can trust you with anything and never having to worry. You are the most kind, caring, and wise man that I know. There are not enough words on this Earth for me to able to thank you for always being there for me when I need someone to talk to when I’m sad, angry or happy. You’re amazing and I hope you truly believe that.

So, thank you, from the bottom of my hear, my dear friend and I hope that your birthday is perfect. You deserve it.

[tea77green]

That George Macdonald lithograph(?) reminds me of William Blake's work around the same time. Familiar with his poetry? I don't know much about art terminology so please do forgive me if that is not called a lithograph.

Oh, yes! They are all interrelated. I had to look up lithographs and engravings, as I didn't know exactly how they differed. :) Apparently a lithograph is a print made from a smooth stone or from metal. The George Macdonald illustration from his story "At the Back of the North Wind" is a wood engraving of an illustration done by illustrator & painter Arthur Hughes. The wood engraving part was done by the Dalziel Brothers.

George Macdonald was a Victorian writer who was extremely influential to the Inklings (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, etc) and others. He was influenced by the German Romantics and also by William Blake. Just FYI, C.S. Lewis, an atheist at the time, was interested in Romanticism and he read Macdonald's Phantastes, which captured Lewis' imagination and converted him to Christianity.

Arthur Hughes (who did paintings, drawings, stain glass designs) worked with the Pre-Raphaelites. They were influenced by William Blake (as you suspected).

Maybe that's more than you wanted to know, or you already knew some of it! But thank you for asking! I love all this stuff! :) :) Hope you are having a great Monday!

~Rebecca

[toteardown]

Love to wake up on days off. No rush.

I absolutely hate to be rushed. I get to wake up when I want, watch a little tv, listen to some music, read something quick to get me thinking, take my vitamins, go work out, eat... I know I sound like an old man but that's a perfect beginning to a day right there.

[this-michelle-m-blog]

toteardown replied to your post: I really don't like that posts can be pinned to MY dashboard

We should all send messages to the tumblr staff about this. It’s antithetical to why most of us came here for.

Exactly! btw.. I already have. :)