Stephen

𖦹*; art & personal blog

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Pinned; 📌

Hi, my name is Stephen

(pronounced like Stefen) ;*°

I’m 22 & interested in classic literature, fashion & art history (specifically post-impressionists and Vincent van Gogh) 𖦹 ˚࿔

I work with watercolor, gouache & paint digitally as well

*I don’t post on any other social media

*Lightly censored drawn artistic nudity is present on my blog

Art + personal photography tag below

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School & life are thrashing me around but if I survive, I’m going to try and get some more sketches done -*° 𖦹

Some misc. second hand design pages, postcards & stamps I’ve picked up recently + Domo

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Study of “Heavenly Being by the Sea” for Vogue 1985 *° ༄

Around 8 x 11 so one of my larger spreads

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Some figures of my characters Samuel (right) & his rival I haven’t figured a name out for *;; 𖦹

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I treat other people’s sketchbooks like precious artifacts while I throw my own around in the rain, the papers already warped from the watercolor anyways ⟢ 𖦹*;;

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Study of an Ignudi figure by Michelangelo, not meant to be an exact 1:1, interpreted more in my style — I wanted to do the full figure but the canvas was getting way too big so I left it here. ࿔*

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Willem Dafoe, Van Gogh

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“Vincent had told the congregation of a pilgrim who met a woman dressed in black. The pilgrim asked this woman — an angel — how far it was to the city of the distant hill bathed in the golden rays of the setting sun. It was far, she replied. The journey took from morn to night. And the pilgrim carried on, ‘sorrowful yet always rejoicing’ — a favorite saying of Vincent’s. It summed up his whole life — blighted, bedeviled, but touched with glory.”

- Martin Gayford, The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

Happy birthday, Vincent! 🌻˚࿔🎨

Less articulated personal paragraph but he is, to me, the greatest post-impressionist painter and one of the greatest painters to have lived. Who I admire deeply not just for his body of work, but his perseverance and love for the world around him. Through isolation, pain both physical and mental, and failures, he continued to paint with the fullest extent of authenticity he could express. He is wonderful in his flaws, difficulties and eccentricity. °. ࿔*

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Two recent head sketches — it feels like my mood affects what my lines look like, I used the same busted copic on both though *;; ಄

(Credit to user ‘bubterknife for the speech bubble phrase, I saw it in their comic and it stuck with me!

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What I picked up thrifting + a small gouache portrait I made into a keychain - *;

Whenever I pick up a brush, it’s a 50/50 on wether I’m able to paint anything worthwhile so I’ll flip a coin and see how I do today ࿓ ✶ *.˚

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tiny van gogh studies

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Rough sketchbook pieces 2** ࿔ ࿔ most are Morpho studies

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Gouache study after Michelangelo — my poor self teaching is showing but I find beauty in his imperfections ༄*

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Things I own ✴︎˚｡ — I picked up a bunch of those art cards + postcards for cheap which was great for me

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'weatherbeaten,' oil on canvas, dimensions: 72.3 x 122.9 cm; winslow homer, american, 1894.

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More recent works and studies. I am falling in love with traditional art

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Sketches of my character Vilis, still deciding how I want him to look — ദ്ദി(⎚_⎚)