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We each of us have a story to tell. "He had not known how much it affected him till now-now that the very name 'Space' seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it 'dead'; he felt life pouring into him from it every moment. How indeed should it be otherwise, since out of this ocean all the worlds and all their life had come? He had thought it barren: he now saw that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes-and here, with how many more! No: Space was the wrong name.” - C.S. Lewis
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Completed this commission for my friend Andrew. This character’s name is Alantir Norstone, and he’s a human paladin from the Warcraft Universe.

Yes, I cheated and pasted that screenshot from the game into the background! Not enough time available to paint from scratch ;)

#World of Warcraft#Art#character#Alantir Norstone
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“So you don’t want to dance. But you do want to wrestle.”

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wendydoodles

#WeMissYouRobinWilliams

It hurts a lot to know he’s gone. I don’t really have the words. He was such an incredible bright presence on this earth…one of a kind. 

Thank you for bringing us so much joy and laughter. Be at peace.

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illustrix-blog

Beautiful art of a beautiful person by my beautiful best friend.

#wendydoodles#robin williams
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hydrolases

Lavoisier is having none of your shit.

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mermaidskey

Heeeey so fun fact: the woman in that painting is Lavoisier’s wife, Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, who not only acted as Lavoisier’s lab assistant but also translated English and Latin texts into French so he could read them. But she didn’t just translate, she pointed out errors in the chemistry in some of the texts. Her observations of these errors convinced Lavoisier to study combustion, which led to his discovery of oxygen. She was also critical to the publication of Lavoisier’s Elementary Treatise on Chemistry in 1789. She kept strict records of every experiment they conducted together and drew detailed diagrams of all their equipment. She also threw amazing parties and invited all the brightest minds in science so her husband could pick their brains. After Lavoisier was guillotined she secured all of his notebooks and equipment for posterity.

In short: NOBODY KICKS MADAME LAVOISIER OUT OF THE LAB.

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Also, a side note: My historian husband-to-be pointed some things out to me about this painting. Notice that Madame Lavoisier is looking at the viewer, and all the light is on her, while Lavoisier himself is physically smaller than her, in shadow, and looking up to her in reverence. This isn’t a candid photograph- all of these choices are deliberate. The painting isn’t of Lavoisier- Madame Lavoisier is meant to be the central subject. 

I can just imagine Lavoisier telling all his colleagues that his wife is really the one with all the clever ideas, and them patting him on the back and telling him he’s sweet for saying so.

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mermaidskey

I LOVE IT

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