Rusalka (1996) — Mermaid by Aleksandr Petrov

Oil paint on glass animation

Today is Walpurgis Night - I had to draw a witch <3

Warm

I was at an art museum and I saw this painting from 1625. It’s by Gerrit van Honthorst and is called “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image,” and it basically is every person on this website. 

The Art of Ray Morimura

Ray Morimura is a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, where he studied oil painting. Originally his works were geometric-style abstractions. But later he was inspired by Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, and began to study woodblock techniques. Unlike most other Japanese woodblock printmakers, he uses oil-based inks to create these detailed images.

His technique is to carve both 6mm thick plywood blocks and 3mm thick blocks laminated with P-tile, a flooring material. The “linocut” process permits quite complex designs, which are printed on mulberry bark kozo paper. Essentially each color requires a separate block, and separate inking. Some blocks are printed with solid colors, while others include bokashi or a gradation of color. Of his work, Morimura says “printing demands total concentration as a single hair or dust can ruin a print. I usually clean my studio thoroughly and wait to begin the printing process until after midnight when it is quiet. With prints one can never be certain of the outcome until the final print is completed. There is always the unexpected, which makes it all the more intriguing. As with Zen and ink paintings, I hope something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, can be expressed in these landscape works.”

Learn more about Ray Morimura here.

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These are very soothing.

This is definitely an unnerving picture. The cooled lava almost looks like bodies.

At first I was impressed because I thought it was an art piece. Now I’m really impressed because Mother Nature is so metal.

Finally got around to doing another comic! I’ve been grappling with memories of my childhood, trying to understand why from a certain period of time I saw myself as being a girl. I never really felt like I related to “always being a boy just never realized it” but maybe that’s because of my upbringing? Parents were liberal with what I wore/played with, and I was heavily groomed into the “tomboy” role, so I never really felt that repression? Or maybe I just wasn’t aware!  Who knows! I’m a boy now, I’m at peace with my childhood and that’s all that matters!

More comics here

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yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out

but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53

but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone

there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow

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The story of Jordan Blisk, as told by Jess Ruliffson. I love reading trans stories with a happy ending.

Gustav Klimt Brought to Life by Photographer Inge Prader.

Austrian photographer Inge Prader recently recreated Gustav Klimt’s masterworks for Style Bible, a part of the Life Ball Charity Event in Vienna, Austria.  A team of over 50 professionals worked on the demanding photography project which raises funds to help those with HIV/AIDS.  Makeup artists, costume designers, set designers, lighting specialists and many others worked with models and fully ornamented props to bring to life the fascinating, erotically charged work that Klimt is known for during his “Golden Phase.”

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Olly Moss’s Harry Potter.

Olly Moss surprised everyone and is currently doing a timed release of these new, official, Harry Potter illustrations.  They’re only available until October 25th, 2016.  Check them out!

This makes me so happy and I don’t even know why.

I didn’t know how much I needed this.

Vladimir Volegov

Western Australia From Above

Salty Wings it’s a collaborative project by two Australian photographers, @justjampal and @micgoetze that document the beautiful sights of Western Australia from above. You can see many more images and buy prints of your favorites here.

The Art of Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style.

Let’s try and label these:

Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji) Japan (1933) [Source]

Kameido Bridge - Twelve Scenes of Tokyo Japan (1927) [Source]

Sarusawa Pond Japan (1933) [Source]

Morning Mist in Taj Mahal, no. 5 (Taji Maharu no Asagiri, dai-go)  India (1932) [Source]

Sekishozan - Shizhongshan (Jizuri) China (1940) [Source]

Toshogu Shrine Japan (1937) [Source]

Golden Temple in Amritsar India (1931) [Source]

Sailing Boats in the Morning - Inland Sea China (1926) [Source]

A Canal in Venice Italy (1925) [Source]

Misty Day in Nikko Japan (1937) [Source]

Damn. Hiroshi Yoshida was one cosmopolitan guy. And the gallery above isn’t even comprehensive:

Ruins of Athens (Acropolis- Day) Greece (1925) [Source]

Breithorn Switzerland (1925) [Source]

Niagara Falls US (1925) [Source]

Golden Pagoda in Rangoon Myanmar (1931) [Source]

Singapore Singapore (1931) [Source]

Petra Jordan (undated) [Source]

Sphinx–Day (Sufuinkusu) Egypt (1925) [Source]

Aerial Abstracts Zack Seckler

WELP here’s the project I did for school that I wanna work into a more personal project throughout this summer and in the future as well. I haven’t done a comic in a long time, so there was a lot of experimenting here and I’m gonna apologize ahead for my shaky storytelling cuz writing is not my forte, although I do plan on fixing this up in the future. It’s a sort of prequel to what I wanna do for my zodiac kids, so it was just a lot of messing around with them. Nothing is historically accurate; its psuedo history and fanstasy so hahaHA