#the painting is by William Waterhouse btw

[hoodieseasoned]

wanted to draw some seablings and water

so here they are :3

i remembered i own watercolors, and also a scanner lol (though i don't think i like what the scanner results look like that much,,, tho, it was better than using the phone camera as there isn't any annoying shiny-ness)

idk how to draw water but i think it turned out quite interesting looking

i used a part of john william waterhouse's "hylas and the nymphs" -painting as a reference

here is some progress pictures

my phone camera has trouble processing color pencils ig, you can see it looks a bit fuzzy for some reason

also i really like their expressions from the sketch, i did lose those in the coloring progress which is sad ;^;

btw feel free to give me any requests in the askbox abt empires (season 1) cast/hermits to draw as i enjoy working off of prompts (inspiration has been hard to come by recently, this is a cry for help lolol)

[firinnie]

MYTH-TOBER 2024 11. Thanatos So there will be a bit of mythology and a bit of my life story here. Thanatos as the deity of peaceful death is very interesting, he comes, cuts a lock of your hair and then Hermes could do the rest. He has a twin brother Hypnos and oh boy, the old paintings of them are so cute. Check out "Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death" by John William Waterhouse, excellent one. Btw, he got butterfly's antennae because that's his sacred animal, which is also a symbol of the soul. BUT now some lore from my life. Mythology somehow stuck with me for a long time, once in primary school when we talked about Greek gods each of us got our own god for which we were supposed to dress up and talk about. I got Thanatos and I'll tell you that 10 years ago I couldn't find almost anything on the Polish internet. A very short Wikipedia and a few pictures, because nobody spoke English at my house at the time, so my mother took matters into her own hands. She was a seamstress and sewed me a black and white outfit (the one Thanatos is wearing on my art), bought angel-costume wings and helped me paint them black, attaching even more feathers to make them bigger. And believe me, how much she heard from my grandmother that it was "a profanation of religion" and so on. On day we were supposed to present it, I was late for my first lesson because I was doing the most "deadly" make-up that the cheap cosmetics we found at the last minute would allow me to do. And I had a phenomenal performance, I even walked around the room with my paper knife painted gold in one hand and a paper torch in the other. I had "diabełki" (little devils) in it, which were gunpowder wrapped in parchment, wrapped in small balls. You could buy these at kiosks and when you hit the ground with them there was a mini BOOM, I used them at the end of my presentation for t h e w o w effect. And you know what? I got a 4- (which is like B in a Polish school), and you know why? Because "it's very unsightly to watch a girl pretending to be a male character". BUT I DID NOT CHOOSE A MALE CHARACTER, that teacher gave us gods, I had no choice in with one! 12-year-old me was sad and 22-year-old me is disgusted by that woman. But you know what? I went to an art school after that and there was an "initiation as a student lit party" (which always had an interesting theme at that school), we of course got a topic about Greek mythology. I put on my Thanatos outfit, went to the bathroom to do my make-up and met a girl from my class who I hadn't talked to, and who commented on something about my costume. We started talking and talking and talking... 3 years ago we finished this school and she is still my close friend so I can say that the effort of making this costume really paid off. Thanks to my mom lol. I really like Thanatos for that. Inctober by @/arkhaos.art (on ig)

[breadnymph]

shoutout to my favorite painting in the background 🌸✨🌸

[onyxbird]

Fic-writing intent: Write a scene where Eliot and Maggie run into Sophie in a theater lobby because they all are attending the same play. The main purpose of the scene is for them to encounter Sophie.

Fic-writing reality: Get sidetracked into finding/selecting a specific famous painting based on a Shakespearean play for Eliot to correctly identify a reproduction of from across the lobby, for the purposes of Eliot/Maggie banter. Sophie has yet to even appear.

(I succeeded, BTW. Miranda - The Tempest by John William Waterhouse. This has absolutely no bearing on the fic plot; I just think it's pretty.)

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

Name: Erika Age: 22 Meaning behind tumblr url: it actually just popped into my head one day so when I got a blog I used it! Also I'm agnostic so it's kind of relevant Hobbies/Interests: drawing/painting, interior design, makeup, acting, working out Why you follow me: dragon age 😊 Random fact about yourself: I'm visually synesthetic Question for me: what are some of your other interests?

Hi Erika! Lovely to meet you :) (I really like your url BTW) 

Those are some of my interests as well! I love makeup and I used to be a big acting/theatre junkie. I’m still an admirer even though I consider myself mostly retired as of now. 

As for other interests, well, other than theatre, Shakespeare, swimming and fashion stuff, I recently fell back in Skyrim hell, and I’ve been playing it constantly lately :) Like. A lot, lol. 

Also another thing, I love art from the pre-raphaelite period. Especially by John William Waterhouse. This is one of my favorite paintings: 

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[whenharrymetsallys]

Hi there! what's your favorite (or one of your favorites) poem, book, song and painting? lovely blog btw

my favourite poem is the second coming by wb yeats or (typically) the love song of j alfred prufrock by ts eliot.

my favourite book is the secret history by donna tartt (i don’t think i’ll ever love a book as much i love this one which is a SHAME but i can’t help who i am)

my favourite song is something by florence + the machine but it changes with mood/season/weather (it’s currently what the water gave me) but i also love anything nina simone ever sang.

favourite painting is very difficult! i always look for the lady of shalott by john william waterhouse, but when i’m at the national portrait gallery i force the people im with to go and look at the tudor portraits because i love the anne boleyn, and richard iii portraits so much (and also elizabeth i’s ditchley portrait). but i don’t think i could pick an absolute favourite, i’m not as attached to art as i am the first three!

thank you for this question, it was nice to think about as i woke up ☀️