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the seven sons of fëanor were maedhros the tall; the mighty singer, whose voice was heard far over land and sea; celegorm the fair, and caranthir the dark; curufin the crafty, who inherited most his father’s skill of hand; and the youngest amrod and amras, who were twin brothers, alike in mood and face. in later days they were great hunters in the woods of middle-earth; and a hunter also was celegorm, who in valinor was a friend of oromë, and often followed the vala’s horn.
dolphins enjoy surfing, or riding, ocean waves, and even the wakes made by large boats, the result of a natural behaviour adapted from swimming in a mother dolphin’s slip stream when they are youngsters. (more)
Doctor Who in a nutshell
Han had, plenty, and now that familiar sorrow crept back over his heart.
A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain.
Some old mixed media favourites. 🦄
Some of you might be aware of the fact that I’m working on my next artbook – I hope to complete it later this year, although I’m currently finding it difficult to focus on this book because of numerous other work projects and duties that are keeping me busy on a daily basis. But I hope I’ll get back on track at some point during the following months. 🤞
The book will include a thematic collection of my mixed media (digitally coloured) drawings from the past five years, such as the ones in this post, and also some never before seen work I’m creating exclusively for the book.
You may have to wait for the book, but meanwhile these seven illustrations are also available as postcards (both individually and as a set of 7 cards), and as art prints on Society6.
THE WITCHER APPRECIATION WEEK ▽ day three: favorite relationship
an underrated comedy duo of a worthy traveling companion, who likes to leave cats on the stove, and a very sexy but insane witch
ROMANCE IN FILM gif meme: favorite pairings/couples [1/X]
Matt (Mark Ruffalo) & Jenna (Jennifer Garner) 13 GOING ON 30 (2004) dir. Gary Winick
Ten Major Artists:
Wong Wong & Lulu
Pepper examining himself before commencing a self-portrait
Pepper’s self-portrait
Tiger the spontaneous reductionist
Misty goes off the wall
Minnie, the abstract expressionist
Minnie’s Reindeer in Provence, 1992.
Smokey painting after an hour in the catnip patch
Smokey at work
Ginger’s Stripped Bare Birds, 1992.
Princess, the elemental fragmentist
Charlie, the peripheral realist
this literally makes me so happy
sketch book
And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love! is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name.
Amelia Pond “was like a name from a fairy tale”, but Amy tries to shed fairy tale fantasies as she chases after real world adventures. For all that her story is a “bit fairy tale”, Amy Pond was one of the most relatable characters that I and others had seen in so long.
When we first see her, she’s a little girl praying to Santa about a mysterious crack in her wall that whispers to her as she sleeps. It is a scene of strangeness and invokes many a magical theme, but there is also a sense of reality to it. Children’s worlds are strange and magical but it’s not always just because they have the imagination and creativity to create them. Sometimes it’s comes with a touch of necessity. Plenty of children believe in Santa but very few of them pray to him. Little Amelia Pond’s prayer to Santa might not be just a quirk of childhood but also possibly a little girl making up her own belief system when there isn’t an adult in her life who takes the time to show her one. Or at least an adult to listen to her problems so she doesn’t have sit up all alone in her house praying to some mysterious being of incredible powers and kindness in the hopes of solving her problems.
It’s a strange and almost magical story we’re told of little Amelia Pond in a strange house with doors hidden out in the corner of her eyes. But it’s also the story of a young girl left to fend for herself in a strange new country, in a mostly empty house with only a mostly absent aunt and her own thoughts to keep her company. She’s “the Scottish girl in the English village” and the Doctor claims to understand how that feels, but in the real world out here, there are far more people to whom that feeling is just as familiar.
The door only seen through the corner of your eye is scary. And monsters that steal your form while you sleep are terrifying. But so is being a seven year old girl, all alone in a house in a strange new place in the middle of the night. And that is an all too real kind of fear. When we (and the Doctor) meet her, she’s all alone well into the night, and everything in Amelia’s behaviour suggests this is nothing out of the ordinary. The Doctor remarks that Amelia is “not scared of anything”, but maybe fear becomes different when there are people to listen to it and the only person to tell is some strange figure from myth, whether it be Santa (who might not exist) or the Doctor (who she never knew existed).
She is given the moniker of the girl who waited. For all it’s whimsical tone, it’s also something real that grounds Amy. It’s not just the Doctor she waits for. When the Doctor says he’d be “right back”. Amelia’s response is that “people always say that”. How many times had she heard it before she stopped believing it? Despite all the Doctor’s insistence that he’s not people (“Do I even look like people?”), he leaves her waiting for far too long just as she had suspected. Despite all the times he’s said the words “Trust me. I’m the Doctor.” and delivered his promise, he lets Amelia down exactly like she had become used to. And she waits exactly as she’s used to.
Amy runs away the night before her wedding with an almost magical figure who flits in and out of time in a time machine. The Doctor belongs to myths and legends that she’s never heard of. However, Amy herself and her desire to put her life on pause even for a little while is not alien. She’s not running away because she doesn’t want to get married but because tomorrow is just too soon. That feeling is a familiar one. To want to run away from your life not forever but just until you’re ready to face it. To want to leave and come back and find your life waiting just as you left it.
With a name like it was “from a fairytale”, a crack in her wall that was a gateway to another world, “the universe pouring through her dreams every night”, an imaginary friend with a magical box and even the missing parents, it’s easy to think that Amy Pond belongs to the fairy tales that surround her and fill her life, however the fairy tales as with all the other stories in Amy’s life might be something she’s a part of and something that’s part of her, but in the end something so very real runs through them.
a true act of goodwill always sparks another.
klaus (2019) | dir. sergio pablos
An artwork a day for all seven Harry Potter books :)
