the way ivan aivazovskylooks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly
Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:
It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.
He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.
When thinking of camels, images of hot deserts from the east come to mind. But these peculiar animals had almost all of their history happen in North America, and were first adapted to cold winters.
*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*
The beetles are joined by a flock of moths for tonights business view of the Degree Show. The Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show will be open to the public from Saturday onwards (June 1st) so come and look at some amazing art - I had a wee snoop around the exhibition already, everyone’s work is amazing!
Fairy Inspired Glow in the Dark Bookmarks by Manon Richard
Canadian jewelry designer and photographer Manon Richard creates exquisite fairy inspired treasures, lockets, rings and other enchanting accessories. Richard’s spellbinding creations contain a turquoise illuminating power source, which reminds us of pure magic.
Inspired my mythological creatures, the enchanting forest and other woodland and dainty beings, the glow in the dark accessories will immediately bewitch you. Find her entire collection in her Etsy shop.
i’m embarrassed to say this took me like 5 months to make (meaning i made like 50% of it back in december and finished it now in april) i played around with their designs a little - love the idea of them being different species like in RotTMNT! (Raph a snapping turtle, Mikey a box turtle, Donnie a spiny soft shell and Leo a red eared slider)
