#LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ARTWORK!!!

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

I've been reading Exodus lately and I've just gotten to the portions where God gives the first commands to the people via Moses (twice), and then goes on to give detailed instructions about the tabernacle and how it should be built, and I'm just... we think art is unimportant?? we think things only mean as much as their functionality?? we so easily fall into the trap of believing that beauty means nothing, that it's cheap and only worth whatever mindless distraction it brings, that it's barely more than a cheap sensual thrill, that buildings should just be practical and plain and cheap, that everything should be functional but ultimately disposable, that paintings and dresses and mugs and curtains and carpets are just pretty but have no real value, that beauty is fleeting and vain and therefore shouldn't be thought about too much, if even looked for at all... we fall into these traps so easily, and we forget that there are chapters upon chapters of painstakingly detailed plans to build one portable worship tent, and those plans have been handed down through thousands of years of human history, because beauty and art and skill in craft is important

[dilutedconfusion]

NEWSFLASH- He thinks you’re pretty~

[remyfire]

Sorry here's another cap spam because I am absolutely out of my mind over them rn

[infernothechaosgod]

Art study of 1950's pin up girl hilda :)

Oryginal ^

Mine ^

I love her sm

[sweetjellyfish]

“a reminder!” link to instagram post

“a little reminder!” link to twitter / x post

by Anna-Laura Art

[takamoris]

Mouthwashing good as hell

[fortunaestalta]

[tomboyyyaoi]

u have to b a fucking stellar artist to get away w shipping incest like if ur drawing incest and ur art is shit thats just embarrassing

[realityphobia]

He makes these every year on an annual cycle to mimic the horseshoe crab's migration cycle!!!!!!

His artist statement from the Left Bank Gallery is beautiful.

"This work is my tribute to an old friend and an ancient species," sculptor Mark Rea says of his horseshoe crabs. "I did a lot of my growing up exploring Nantucket harbor on very small sail craft. These old souls were at nearly every beach landing, moving like shadows just below me in the shallows."

The full artist statement is here:

Horseshoe Crab by Mark Rea

[llycaons]

being home I'm really realizing wow the nature outside is so much more beautiful than I could ever experience back in the city. the interior of this house though. atrocious. nobody likes this

[sleepybean427]

THIS LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! The way you draw Stanley and the Narrator is so beautiful! I love the way you draw them, they look so soft 🥺🥺🥺 I just wanna hug them!!

🩷🩷🩷

"It was a day a day like every other; or perhaps thats what made it so special. We existed side by side on a stretch of time that seems so mundane it became the most beautiful adventure we’d ever had…

Same place tomorrow?"

I come to you all with a very special post, this piece in particular is one that means a lot to me. My desire was to create a snapshot of a beautiful moment between my Narrator and his Stanley, a moment of happiness on a day warm enough to be an embrace.

There is a lot of deeper meanings going on throughout the piece that I hope someone out there can pick up on, from the bench itself, to the flowers, and way they sit. It all matters to the narrative, the artwork itself ended up taking me 8 hours but it was well worth it to me.

Take a walk through memory zone, who knows you might hear the distant echos of laughter; the ghost of a happy day that lives on in those halls

Enjoy 💕

[blackpearlblast]

[ID: drawings of a golem animated by a palestinian flag painted on its forehead. it is seen: holding out its arms protectively in front of a crowd of children, the children also hold each other supportively; catching an air strike missile from the air and throwing it away or crushing it in its fist; turning its back so that a child can warm her hands by the earth oven built into its back, food in a pot is cooking on the fire and a boy holds a cup of steaming tea to his face and enjoys the aroma; clearing away rubble so a man can help up his wife who was buried underneath, she is clutching a baby to her chest; stooping down to look at a kitten a young boy is holding up to show it; and dissolving small flakes of clay from its finger into a glass of water, purifying it. end ID]

@fairuzfan asked people to create and share art for the strike. i wrote an artist statement and then set about trying to draw what i envisioned. artist statement below.

This golem is a protector that I wish I could gift to the children and adults in Gaza. The flag on its forehead is to show that love for the Palestinian people is an animating force for people fighting for a free Palestine all over the world, especially for those in Palestine who are trying to free themselves and their people. Love is the motivation for the call for a free Palestine, not hatred like people try to claim. It is very strong and fast and can catch air strikes out of midair and crush them to dust or throw them back in the direction they came from. It can lift all the rubble of a collapsed building very quickly so nobody can get trapped underneath. It has an earth oven in its back with an ever-burning flame that people can use to warm themselves and cook food and heat water to use to bathe themselves or make tea. Pieces of its clay can be crumbled up and mixed into water to make even the most brackish and unclean water pure and safe to drink.

The golem is always a bit of a tragic figure so I don't imagine it staying around forever once Palestine is free and it is no longer needed. I think it would use its great strength to help rebuild the destroyed houses, churches, schools, universities, hospitals, and mosques and then dive into the Jordan river and dissolve. It would clean the river of all pollution and make the water splash up over all the newly replanted fruit trees, causing them to grow big and strong. Its love for Palestine and its people can be tasted in the fruit they grow for generations.

I choose a specifically Jewish icon of protection because of how it feels to witness such horrors done in the supposed name of Judaism and the Jewish people. For many anti-zionist Jews, we feel like we are acting directly within the teachings of our stories and communities by opposing this genocide. It is difficult to understand how the very people and institutions who taught us these values now fight against them so fiercely. While obviously I would still oppose Israel were I not Jewish, the way I oppose Israel is directly informed by my Jewishness. I hope that someday, somehow, Judaism can bring as much joy and support to the Palestinian people as it has brought grief and destruction. That Jewish symbols used in the name of love and justice will bear more significance than the ones used in shows of hatred. Knowing the depth of the harm caused, I do not know if this is possible. But this artwork and everything I have dedicated myself to these past few months and continue to dedicate myself to in the future is born from this hope. I love you. Thank you for being on this planet with me. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! And it will be beautiful.

[roaringroa]

just saw the most beautiful girl i’ve ever seen in my life like 10 minutes ago i am literally still shaking and i didn’t even interact with her

[cy-lindric]

Hi! So, while scroling through Pinterest, i came across this art:

which was credited to you. i cannot find the complet artwork in your profile, so i wanted to ask if youre the artist responsible for this piece.

(btw, your renditions of medieval clothing are beautiful!)

Hello ! I did make this a long time ago and the reason you didn't find it is probably because it's almost a decade old (and also very badly tagged). You can find the original post here. I think back then I had no idea what actual medieval clothing might look like, lol. How far we've come.

[krenenbaker]

oh... my gosh

It's so beautiful? so soft?? I mean, the shapes? the colours? the flowers? his expression?

This genuinely made me cry. What a beautiful piece!

He’s so pretty

[mothballmilkshake]

Another beautiful piece by @ararouge - and though by this point in Stolen Moments, Lucifer's wings seem to have a mind of their own, I place this artwork at the start of 'A Little Bit of Devil Worship', which is why poor Alastor looks a little confused about it all! https://archiveofourown.org/works/57716254 A snippet:

When Alastor awoke, it was to the distinct impression that the king had suddenly become heavier than he remembered, seemingly overnight. The man was laying half on top of him, all former protests of the demon being too warm to sleep close to apparently forgotten in the sprawl of limbs and difficulty breathing he'd decided to create.

Worse, the air in the room was stuffy and closed, somehow, as though Alastor was sleeping under several layers of blankets, though he could tell quite easily that the duvet had been dislodged during the night, feeling it somewhere in the vicinity of his knees.

With a slightly irritated buzz of static, he decided that this phenomenon would only be solvable with the aid of visual investigation, and reluctantly slitted open his eyes, blinking when all that he saw was the colour red.

Sleep addled and slow, it took him several long seconds to work out why.

“Sire,” Alastor mumbled, his voice still drowsy and laden with a static-rumble. “Why are your wings out?”