#Oil Miracles

[pimentadeacucar]

Pantene Pro v Miracles Queratina Óleo Capilar Milagroso

[lionofchaeronea]

Christ Walking on Water, Julius von Klever, ca. 1880

[godslove]

“Daniel's Answer to the King” by Briton Riviere (1890)

[beardedmrbean]

[pourablecat]

A promo sketch! It was going to be pencil and watercolour - but I left them all in Glasgow so, scribbles instead.

So a couple of months ago I was proposing the Monstrous Regiment stageplay at Edinburgh and we didn't get a slot, but reproposing will happen next semester! Fingers crossed!

Also, un-updated promo sketches under the cut! Needless to say, they leave something to be desired...

[artandthebible]

The Miracles of Prophet Elisha

Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511-1574)

Date: c. 1566

Medium: Oil on Wood

Collection: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Description

This composition is a typical example of a painting for private worship, a genre that was popular with Vasari. The subject is a scene from the life of the Prophet Elisha, who during famine saved his people making edible wild herbs. Elisha is one of the biblical prophets whose miracles prefigured those of Christ. A man in the middle ground carries a basket, because Elisha miraculously multiplied the available food.

In spite of the modest size of the work, the artist insists on elaborating a composition of great complexity and refinement, characteristics which would reappear in the profane paintings of the Studiolo executed thirty years later.

Death in the Pot | 2 Kings 4: 38-41, NIV

Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He put it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

[chiprewington]

Hi, frat boy!

[psi-hate]

as the girls are doing their usual anime night, tsukasa makes a dumb joke about how lucky hinata is in that naruto must use shadow clones in bed regularly, only to immediately choke on her own spit when sanae performs the hand seals and duplicates herself

[interstate35south]

back again it's been zero seconds i just need to. i thought momo's trial was crazy. desperately trying to escape and convince mako to believe her knowing that she only had 24 hours until one of them would be forced to kill the other, banging on the walls of the containment cell saying "i don't wanna die" as she felt her body become something monstrous and not her own, all her humanity leaving her in her last few seconds of consciousness

i thought yun chuan's trial was crazy. learning the man who he regarded as his closest friend and savior thought of him as competition even before the bitterness and paranoia took hold, deciding to give up ten years of his life to prison, the wild, and the gray spaces in society AGAIN, for a man that wouldn't do the same for him, knowing how it would all unfold, because he never regretted it, even as he nearly lost his ability to speak??

and now you tell me li ling's trial has him living in nakia's body for decades, maybe even centuries, fighting for the last scraps of his sanity in the confines of the chaos miracle, gaining consciousness only to realize the blood on his hands of the hundreds of people he'd slaughtered ever since he killed his only friend as the miracle took hold of him, and to top it all off, as desperately as he tries to take his own life, he can't even die.

like what the fuck oh my god two events ago we were planning a surprise party

[whitebookposts]

And do, my yearly tradition of drawing Hannukah related Sky art continues

I'll be honest, I wasn't sure I would make one this year- I didn't have any interesting ideas for an art.... up until I didn't come across THIS glorious post and I KNEW that I had to redraw this masterpiece as Tsadi

So yea! Tsadi wished you all a Happy Hannukah! Let your light shine stronger together!

(also, heres a version that is closer to the original gif under the cut... beware of tsadititties)

(Shotout to @dogedepan for giving me the idea for this pun DGHEJHGDJHGED)

[stormy-nights-are-best]

Mikey and Casey hanging out except the assignment prohibited ninja turtles so Mikey had to be hit with the humanizator beam

[doctorsiren]

Some more quick paintings I did today (i would have done more but I was watching Star Wars)

[lionofchaeronea]

The Healing of the Paralytic at Bethesda, unknown Netherlandish artist, ca. 1560

[scrawnytreedemon]

Decided to try my hand at digital painting again. Need to work on my values as usual, but holy shit!!!! I'm really happy with this, actually! The anatomy was so fun to sculpt!!!

Bonus piece that's a full-body nude under the cut <3

FINALLY on the road to becoming the church-painter fanartist of my dreams 😩🙏 If I keep at this, it'll be OVER for your sucker!!! Baroque babes ftw 🥰

[princessnijireiki]

anyway my most spiciest political take right now is so many people are showing how easy it is to lash out when they are feeling helpless, or to believe in a villain they can defeat on a smaller scale than the way the bigger wheels of the world are grinding beyond our reach, because they want to be able to do something, anything, even though that can be propaganda in and of itself, and it makes you lose track of the power of kindness and aid and support in our hands that we can do.

I think the biggest thing people can do is log off, not offline entirely, but log off the platforms where people are screaming at each other just because things feel so fraught that they have to scream and having a target lulls you into feeling like it is productive, and reach out to whoever it is you DO want to help, and ask them what you can do. financially, volunteering, labor, prayer, therapy, buying phone cards, whatever.

it's not as emotionally cathartic as feeding into your own self righteous indignation by fighting strangers on the internet, it won't lie to you and tell you that you're singlehandedly making somebody across the world bulletproof or neutralizing somebody's weapon, but it is better, because it will be the truth that you need to hear, and agency over not the smallness of your limitations, but the actual span of your reach and your capability to help beyond wishing to be superhuman and hating yourself for not being that.

[artandthebible]

Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682)

Date: 1667-1670

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom

Painting Description

This painting shows one of the seven acts of charity described in the Gospel of Matthew and was part of a series that Murillo painted for the church of the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville. The Caridad was a charitable brotherhood dedicated to helping the poor and sick of the city; Murillo himself was a member.

The pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem was periodically visited by an angel, and whoever first touched its water after this would be cured of illness. Christ went to the pool and heard a sick man complain that someone always stepped into the water before him.

Here, Christ invites the man to stand, curing him; their mirrored hand gestures capture the powerful connection between them. The man’s raised arms create an upward motion, as if he is being lifted from the ground by an invisible force – a visual evocation of the miracle taking place.

Biblical Narrative

The name of the pool, “Bethesda,” is Aramaic. It means “House of Mercy.” John tells us that “a great number of disabled people used to lie [there] - the blind, the lame, the paralyzed” (John 5:3). The covered colonnades would have provided shade for the disabled who gathered there, but there was another reason for the popularity of the Pool of Bethesda. Legend had it that an angel would come down into the pool and “stir up the water.” The first person into the pool after the stirring of the water “was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted” (John 5:4). The Bible does not teach that this actually happened - John 5:4 is not included in most modern translations because it is unlikely to be original to the text - rather, the superstitious belief probably arose because of the pool’s association with the nearby temple.

On the day that Jesus visited the Pool of Bethesda, there was a man there who “had been an invalid for thirty-eight years” (John 5:5). Jesus asked the man if he wanted to be healed. The man replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me” (verse 7). Obviously, the man believed the urban legend about the stirring of the water. He blamed the fact that he was never healed on his tardiness in getting into the water.