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What time is it?

#gouache #opossum #MastoArt #illustration

Anxious opossum with a blanket, painted in gouache and watercolor by Victoria Maderna. Speech bubble says "safety blankie time".

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

A tall human figure with a traffic light for a head stands in grass, a small dog on a leash. The dog also has a traffic light for head, but a smaller light, with no orange signal. The human's light is set to red; the dog's is set to green. The green light is illuminating a patch of grass. This is drawn from ground perspective, looking up at both the dog and the person. The dog is closer to the viewer. In the background is the blurry suggestion of tall buildings. This is a blue painting that looks like early morning or evening.

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A 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Contains Hundreds of Signatures of Historical Figures.

Between 1596 and 1647, art dealer and diplomat Philipp Hainhofer traveled around Europe amassing an incredibly rich collection of signatures in the “Große Stammbuch,” or “Album Amicorum.”

By Grace Ebert via @colossal

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/phillip-hainhofer-album-amicorum/

About Album amicorum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_amicorum

#books #history #illustration

Album Amicorum.

The album amicorum ('album of friends', friendship book) was an early form of the poetry book, the autograph book and the modern friendship book. It emerged during the Reformation period, during which it was popular to collect autographs from noted reformers.

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

A red sky with a tear in it: a blazing white and yellow streak that appears to be a rip in the sky. Below is a small house on supports with a sharp, conical roof. A path winds past the house. Next to the house is what looks like a warning sign with a red triangle on it. The ground is barren, almost volcanic. This is not a good place to be.

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✂️ 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 '𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐔𝐩 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛'✂️

My name's Alex, I design papercrafts and £5+ members of my Patreȍn get a new papercraft to print and build every month.

📅 September's toy is a Whimsical Wizard ready to spread a little magic, everywhere he goes.

This four piece papercraft fits snugly on a single A4 page.

Link : https://www.patreon.com/folduptoys

#mastoart #papercraft #magic #wizard #patreon #illustration

A photo of a papercraft depicting a smiling wizard in a glue robe with and a pointy hat.

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #911day

A blurry, dark city skyline. Rising above it into a blue sky are the white shapes of the twin towers.

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Today is #caturday and that's the theme for my next entry in the #weeklyInk challenge.

I'm really surprised how well all the tools in #inkscape go together in creating such a #lowpoly style image.

#art #2D #3D #illustration #cat #maincoon #cute #stylized #digitalart

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Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats

Labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this elusive figure, whose savant-like qualities inspired later French Realists, early psychiatric theorists, and Romantic visions of the artist as outsider.

By Kirsten Tambling via @publicdomainrev

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfried-mind-the-raphael-of-cats/?utm_source=newsletter

#art #illustration #cats

Lithograph by Johann Heinrich Lips after a self-portrait by Gottfried Mind, 1816

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Die_Gartenlaube_%281868%29_b_741_1.jpg

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#illustration #webcomics #poetry #cyberpunk #gothicfiction #josiemanga #timburton #costumedesign #softpastels #gothrock #gothicmetal #pixelart #languagelearning #conlang #artlang

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

A person stands on a tarmac, a suitcase to the right of them. To the right of the suitcase is a round sign with an arrow pointing to where they are standing, like what you might see at a bus stop. Hanging in the clear blue sky in front of them is a vast, iridescent bubble, with shades of green and yellow. A few white birds are in the sky.

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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards

In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.

By Allison Meier via @hyperallergic

https://hyperallergic.com/330790/the-unnamed-woman-artist-revealed-in-the-monogram-of-your-tarot-cards/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Art%20Books%20for%20Cozy%20Fall%20Reading&utm_campaign=D091324

#illustration #tarot

Illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite tarot deck (1909, reprinted in 1937) (courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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Never done this #introduction thing, and it is starting to feel rude, so hi! I'm Lydia.

I mostly post about #writing and #illustration of my #dark #pagan #witchy #fantasy novels while I create #digitalart and share my love for #nature and #naturephotography

I occasionally post about #linux and #privacy as I try to navigate the digital world without ethical compromise. I take care to post with ALT text and CW.

Looking to connect to other spirits on a creative path. 💜

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#art #history: 'he drove me a bit crazy.' #art/#history: don't call her godard's muse. don't. call. her. godard's. muse. don't. do not.
anna karina (born #otd in 1940) professed to feeling honoured & touched when people referred to her as the m-word - & she remained grateful to JLG for trusting her with the roles he wrote with her in mind, even if they ceased speaking once their relationship ended. one thing's sure: they did forge pure magic - TOGETHER.
#annaKarina #godard #illustration #cinema

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2023 digital ink illustration of danish-french actor, anna karina.
beatific here, with her head surrounded by a psychedelic halo, anna holds her gaze as the fingers of her right hand casually pinch a clope betwixt.
colours are very pale rose & quite bright fuchsia.

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How Decorated Initials Made Early Book Pages Pop

Read about the beautiful form and convenient function of one of books’ most distinctive features.

By Morgan Aronson and Lilla Vekerdy via @SmithsonianMag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2024/09/26/how-decorated-initials-made-early-book-pages-pop/

#books #art #history #illustration

Woodcut initials from Andreas Vesalius’s, De humani corporis fabrica, (Basel: Oporinus, 1543). The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology; Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

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#WritersCoffeeClub
Name-check your cover artist, even if it's yourself. Share your best cover.

Well, yes, that is me.

Picking the "best" is a little difficult. I like each cover I make for different reasons.

I am currently considering making all the covers black and white. I really like the film noir meets fantasy style—it's a good mix of cinematic, gloomy, and aesthetic. 🖤

#art #illustration #BookCoverArt #writingcommunity

Book cover for book ten in the Ethereal series. A silhouette of a woman covered in an organic structure standing in a dark forest being guided out by little moths.

Title: Ethereal
Lydia Vvinters

Book Ten
The Promise

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#PennedPossibilities 438 Remorse.

Death is slightly different in Ethereal because there is proof that souls return to the stars and persist. In this sense, death is untethering a spirit. So Freya isn't too bothered about it.

Her dark void spell is a much more horrific thing she can do to a person. Breaking all their senses, including their sense of time, trapping them in an unending dark void.

But when she needs to, she can execute without mercy or remorse.

#fantasy #art #illustration

Image of a woman casting a lightning spell at the viewer with a flick of her fingers. Black background, sky and clouds on top of that, silhouette, serene expression. It's epic, gloomy and imposing.

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who wants to join my 'hag power!' movement? i've already started on the merch. :)
#hagPower #hag #hags #hagsOfTheWorldUniteAndTakeOver #illustration #feminism

illustration of a feminine arm with a green skin tone. the hand is making a fist & a wide, studded black bracelet encircles the wrist. a tattoo of a love heart sweet decorates the forearm. it reads, 'so fine'.
above, in bold uppercase, hangs the text 'hag power!'
colours are acide green, black & hot pink.

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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

An arched, decrepit stone bridge connects two large, dark mountains. Both have turrets on them; the turret on the nearer one is sharper, while the second mountain has a few blurry outlines of towers. The landscape is partially shrouded in fog and greenish light, to the point that it almost looks like it is underwater. A small road runs beneath the bridge. The sky is a bluish green, with a single bird. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Today's Inktober illustration is all about feeding the AI machine (against our will). 😡

#drawing #illustration #art #digitalart #procreate #ipadpro #inktober #inktober2024 #mastoart #fediart

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French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist Albert Robida died #OTD in 1926.

He was an early pioneer of science fiction and founding father of science fiction art. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.

Albert Robida at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1043

#books #literature #illustration

Notre-Dame de Paris. Illustration by Albert Robida published in Le Rire, no. 382, “À l'occasion du centenaire de Victor Hugo”, March 1, 1902.

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Map flanked by vignettes of major cities. Includes notes. Published as a supplement of La Caricature. Map of Europe with cartoon-like allegorical and human figures representing individual countries.

Albert Robida — https://id.lib.harvard.edu/curiosity/scanned-maps/44-990142735370203941

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#art #history: i should have honoured the memory of kiki de montparnasse (aka: alice prin) on the 2nd of october. trust me, she merits the upkeep of her legacy. if you want to know why, read my thread (below).
#kikiDeMontparnasse #montparnasse #paris #surrealism #artist #muse #illustration #art

digital ink illustration of french muse, artist & icon, kiki de montparnasse.
kiki bares her shoulders here, a neat headscarf keeping her barnet tidy as she stares confidently at her audience.
behind her is a geometric art deco convergence of three triangles.
colours are cream, pale blue-grey, deep rose, light rose & black.

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**‘[i’m] more than ever convinced of the necessity for social revolution.'**
#art #history: anti-fash author & all round superb goth babe, ethel mannin, was born #otd in 1900. if you fancy a fuller argument about why she's worth your time, see thread below.
#ethelMannin #author #socialist #antifascist #writer #literature #illustration #shrewsburyFC

digital ink illustration of antifascist, socialist writer, ethel mannin.
ethel's looking quite bauhaus here, her hair parted straight down the centre & combed smoothly over her ears & gathered behind her head. she rests her chin in her hand. the background is an abstract deco graphich of semi-circles, jutting angles & lines.
colours are pale peach, black & crimson.

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#art #history: jazz juggernaut, arthur blakey (born #otd in 1919 to a single mum who died soon after art arrived), was raised by a family friend. he first gravitated toward the piano, but soon found his true groove with the drums & rose up through the ranks playing alongside bebop monsters charlie parker, dizzy gillespie & thelonious monk.
[thread!]
#illustration #artBlakey #jazz #music #drummer #drums