#painting hippos

[marissasketch]

Had to paint Moo Deng!! I love her so much

[aubryjoi]

Moo Deng doodles 🍂🦛

[thwipped]

today was a lot. baby hippo

[beepophobia]

Creature of the week

[junaliceart]

MOO DENG หมูเด้ง

[jeeklaart]

moisturized, happy and flourishing 🫧

( find me here )

[dynasoar5]

heather, a big happy hippie hippopotamus. She's a little on the spacey side. Maybe not the tidiest roommate in the apartment, but she makes up for it in other ways! character belongs to @/phnxfrdm on twitter!

[pen-guinie]

That one mermaid anime that all girls born in early 2000s in greece have heard of

[ex0skeletal-undead]

ATAC!, acrylic on canvas board by Protoguy

[kasttt]

moo dengggg!!!

[sikuena]

au where keith crash lands on earth and gets taken in by the garrison three

documentation of his nightly activities goes to the snap gc

[snatil]

Don’t Touch Me!! 🦛🔥❤️‍🔥

(Fanart of Moo Deng, the baby hippo!!)

[redhoodwolfe]

it’s moo deng

[charlotte-bopp]

H is for hippo --- Did you know only elephants and hippos have this kind of tail? Well Richard Herring didn't and that got Daisy May Cooper very cross. For day 8, I have drawn this live task from series 10 where they had to draw animals 3 lines at a time ---- #illustration #illustrator #atozoftaskmaster #taskmaster #taskmasterfanart #taskmasterseries10 #watercolour #dailyillustration #art #artist #charlotsart

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Artist's Painting of a Hippopotamus New Kingdom

ca. 1479–1425 B.C.

The hippopotamus on this ostracon was painted with the sure hand of a skilled artist who had no need of a grid. Other ostraca in the collection were clearly made as templates to be used when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple  or as practice pieces 

Broadly speaking, the Egyptians viewed the world in terms of the opposing forces of order and chaos, and they recognized these forces in the creatures around them. In its benign aspect, the hippopotamus, standing upright, was used to represent the goddess Taweret  the protector of children and pregnant women. But the hippo could also be a dangerous, destructive beast, and the Egyptians had great respect for its power. In its destructive aspect, the hippo was a stand-in for Seth, the god of chaos, and scenes of the king, or the god Horus, or even a deceased tomb owner harpooning a hippopotamus can be read as depictions of the triumph of order over chaos. In this small painting, however, the animal is not shown in an aggressive pose. In this case the image may simply be what meets the eye: a representation of a hippopotamus.

met museum

[classic-art-favourites]

The Devil Shows Saint Augustine the Book of Vices by Michael Pacher, 1480.