This image shows the artwork "Bonny Doon" from 2017 by American artist Aron Wiesenfeld. The painting is an oil on canvas and depicts a young woman running through a dark forest. The title refers to a small town in the hills of Santa Cruz, California, known for its mysterious atmosphere and dense redwood forests.

Aron Wiesenfeld (1972) is an American painter renowned for enigmatic work. His figures in solitary landscapes capture a sense of departure and of leaving innocence behind. Decidedly contemporary, the scenes are redolent of disaffected youth, alienated from society and adrift in magical environments.

The wonderful limitlessness of the human imagination...

In a filling bathtub, there is a large flatfish with a woman's face on its side.

Another weird picture: 'A Sole In A Bathtub' by Domenico Gnoli.
#weirdart #artsky

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Narcissists united.

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish, 1851–1909)
"The Artist, His Wife, and the Writer Otto Benzon," 1893
Oil on wood
39.2 x 50 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Gerda Tirén, Girl on a Sofa, c.1900

This is something I often wonder. How is it that people who look so 'strange' are elected? Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Boris Johnson.... Perhaps oddest of all is Hitler, and is it only a phenomenon of the right?

Making monoprints today

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#michelebrownearthpainter
#monoprinting
#printmaking
#landscapeart

The KINSHIP of NATURE Bliss Carman Green cover, gold lettering and decoration of foliage.

Book Cover of the Day:

The rain it raineth on the just and also on the unjust fellow,
But mainly on the just because the unjust steals the just's umbrella.....
(I mutter this rhyme to myself increasingly often)

Plugheads Outing
#art #drawing #blueskyart

Mycelium Parish News and some thoughts on community The new issue of Mycelium Parish News (copies are still available on Etsy - details in that last link) arrived on my doormat this morning, full of the interesting things that James Burt and Dan Sumpti...

New blog post: Mycelium Parish News and some thoughts on community

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A cyanotype photogram made by Atkins which was part of her 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

English botanist & photographer Anna Atkins (b. #OTD in 1799) is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

#WomenInSTEM #photography #cyanotype

Ronald Lampit is also one of my favourite Ladybird artists. Anglo-Saxons clearing forest from Our Land in the Making Book 1 (1966) Used as a textbook in my primary school. Lampit’s illustrations helped to engage my interest in history.

Roots and the Meaning of Life They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark hummus to which …

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Ron Francis (Australian, b.1954)
"Russell William's Tree," 2015
Oil on canvas

Oskar Bergman (Swedish painter, 1879 - 1963)
Birch trees in spring, 1933.

Human forest
(Certified: no AI was used in the creation of this drawing)
#art #drawing #trees #forest #roots #mycelium

Self-Portrait (1871) by British artist, Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), often referred to as "the forgotten Pre-Raphaelite".

Drawing, charcoal and white chalk on paper

64 x 52 cm

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA

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If you haven't seen Ren's 'Vincent's Tail - Starry Night' yet, head over to YouTube URGENTLY

I like the spirit of these Vivienne. Blue and yellow, the colours of these beautiful spring days. Sunshine and blue skies.

@viviennem.bsky.social How fascinating. Reminds me of the old idea that voices are absorbed by the walls and might one day be decoded and heard again. The images appear both Victorian and modern, ethereal and present. Very pertinent to the 'project'!

Glad you liked the fish 😁. I've been immersed in the 19th century artistically for a while now so it will be interesting to follow your ideas back to the 21st if I can remember the way!

Sorry I missed your message until now. How lovely to be back in Suffolk and especially with this sunny - if cold - weather. I've been on caring duties a lot lately but have managed to finish the fish!

This looks fun. I love the shell shape especially.

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.

J A Baker lived in a council flat in my home town. (Much later it was on my postal round). That he created something of such visionary beauty and set in landscapes I know well is personally inspiring. What might be achieved behind any unassuming front door? Belatedly there's a blue plaque there now.

Very kind! I do love wood engravings and would like to have a go one day. Have only ever done a very few lino cuts many years ago.

I was reading about Frederick Walker, Luke Fildes, Frank Holl, Hubert von Herkomer and others. Fascinating painters but they honed their art as illustrators for newspapers/periodicals like 'The Graphic' so I imagine they must have been quick and very hard-working!