#waterford arts

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Sidestreet doorway

Waterford, Ireland -- 10/30/24

[sleazyjanet]

both options seem equally possible with them

[bewarethecheese]

An old #church in #Dublin in the #RepublicOfIreland. A daily photo from my archives. bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel #europe #ireland

[neroushalvaus]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness.

[frogsun]

[zackzona2005]

Countryhumans: Republic of Gilead

Drew this a while back on November 22, 2022. This is the Republic of Gilead or simply just Gilead. He’s the fictional country from Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I wanted to draw him as a Countryhuman since I saw how popular the fandom is. I joined in to draw Gilead in CH style and gave him a bio. The person I based him on is Commander Fred Waterford, played by Joseph Fiennes.

For those who don’t know much about The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. It’s set in a dystopia where the world suffers from low birth rates due to pollution that causes a fertility crisis. In the US, a Christian fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob or SOJ, a Puritan Christian group, violently did a coup in Washington DC on President's Day, by killing the President, Congress, and the rest of the Cabinet, to overthrow the US government. They seized power and transformed the former US into the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian patriarchal Christian theocracy that rules most of the former continental US. They strip away women’s rights and make them handmaids to be impregnated by their Commanders, who are the leaders of Gilead, for their barren wives. Their laws are based on the Bible, mainly the Old Testament for the authoritative laws against women.

In the Hulu series, it does the same element as the book but it is set in an alternate 2014 where the SOJ did the coup in Washington DC on September 11, 2014, by staging a terrorist attack to kill President Obama, Congress, and the Cabinet. The SOJ blamed the attack on Islamic extremist groups for the attack, quite possibly ISIS at the time of 2014. They then removed women's rights by first firing them, leaving them unemployed, freezing their bank accounts, not allowed to own property, and finally a nationwide abortion ban. All of these led to a 2nd Civil War from 2014 to 2017, as the setting for Season 1 of the series.

I already finished watching the series back in February 2023. I'm still waiting for the release of Season 6, which won't come out until next year due to the writer's strike last year. My mom got me hooked to watch this show. I mainly watched it for its alternate history since it talked about a fictional 2nd American Civil War.

It's a good show to watch. I highly recommend watching it as it parallels how US politics are right now.

[surrealhaunts]

Forget Bigfoot! This creature is more bizarre.

In the seventies, locals around Waterford Pennsylvania began seeing a strange creature with the head of a sheep. But it’s not the kind of sheep you count in your dreams.

Check this short vid, less than 60 secs, about the Waterford Sheepman.

[pattokarts]

I still can't believe I won one of the official World Watercolor Month Giveaways but here we are 🥰 The supplies arrived the other weeks & I'm absolutely over the moon & grateful to now have them in my arsenal, especially since it's not that easy to get my hands on them here 🙃✨

At first I wasn't quite sure how versatile the colour palette of the paints in the set would be as it is a rather unusual colour selection. But having since painted with it a bit, I'm impressed at the range of colours I can get with just these 5 😍

The Princeton Neptune size 10 is the only brush I've tested out so far. It honestly does everything I need from tiny details to big washes, so I didn't feel the urge to reach for the others (yet) 💙

I have yet to be brave enough to try the paper 😬 It seems really nice & I still have that silly fear of "ruining" paper but I'll eventually have to face that one 🙃✨

[marlasingeruniverse]

[panoramicireland]

A fine view in Waterford, one of the small city's most famous buildings, the former Ard Rí Hotel with street art by Joe Caslin.

The hotel is set to be redeveloped, at some point, alongside the construction of a new city quarter along the North Quays.

[streetsofdublin]

IN-VISIBLE BY TINA O'CONNELL

Tina's contemporary sculpture is also a fully functioning fountain. After an extended period of research into the materials and of development 'In-Visible' was finally sited and fully installed in 2002.

AN INTERESTING WATER FEATURE IN THE WATERFORD PEOPLES PARK One thing that I have noticed in Ireland is that water features are never properly maintained and eventually they become non-water features. Unfortunately, when I photographed this a year later it was in very poor condition … hardly any water and lots of litter and branches within the pool area. But to be fair in 2017 it was in excellent…

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

2nd & 3rd storey window gardens

Waterford, Ireland -- 10/30/24

[sleazyjanet]

peace — i will stop your mouth

or, a kiss in the daylight (the horror!)

and fun closeups:

[bewarethecheese]

An old #church in #Waterford in the #RepublicOfIreland. A daily photo from my archives. bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel #europe #ireland

[barbarapicci]

#Streetart by #Peachzz @_peachzz_ in #Waterford, Ireland, for #WaterfordWalls @waterfordwalls Photo by @streetart_explore More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/12/19/streetart-peachzz-waterford-ireland/ #streetartWaterford #streetartIreland #Irelandstreetart #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CmWgRmrodJZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[maenillustrates]

The Witch of November ❄️

This month’s Patreon print ✨

Holbein watercolour, Kuretake Ai brush pen, Winsor & Newton Gold ink, Saunders Waterford paper 🎨