A grand Northern Renaissance double portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Two wealthy, elegantly dressed men stand on either side of a two-tiered shelf draped in an intricate Turkish carpet. The shelf is cluttered with symbolic objects: celestial and terrestrial globes, sundials, a lute with a broken string, and two books—one an arithmetic text and the other a Lutheran hymn book. The background is a rich green damask curtain. On the intricately tiled floor between the men, a large, distorted anamorphic skull stretches diagonally, appearing normal only when viewed from a sharp side angle.

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Look closely at the bottom shelf of Holbein’s "The Ambassadors." An arithmetic book sits held open by a metal divider. It’s a subtle, genius symbol: the "division" likely reflecting the literal religious and political "division" of Europe at the time. #Art 💙📚

A Post-Impressionist oil painting by Vincent van Gogh titled "L'Arlésienne: Madame Ginoux with Books." A woman with dark hair tied in a black ribbon sits in a pensive pose, her head resting on her left hand. She wears a traditional black Arlesian dress with a white shawl. She sits at a dark green table against a striking, solid lemon-yellow background. Two books, one with a red cover and one with a green cover, lie open on the table in front of her. The painting features Van Gogh's signature bold outlines and vibrant, flat planes of color.

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Vincent van Gogh’s "L'Arlésienne" (1888) depicts Marie Ginoux not just as a café owner, but as a pensive reader. Look closely at the titles in the series and see Dickens’ Christmas Tales and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. #Art 💙📚

A 19th-century oil painting by Carl Spitzweg titled "The Bookworm." An elderly man in a dark frock coat and breeches stands precariously at the top of a library ladder, wedged between towering wooden bookshelves. He is intensely focused on an open book held close to his face, with another book tucked under his arm, a third between his knees, and a fourth held in his other hand. A beam of light from an unseen window illuminates him and the dusty spines of the books. The setting is a grand, old library with "Metaphysics" written in Latin on the shelf above him.

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Carl Spitzweg’s "The Bookworm" is a whimsical 19th-century nod to the obsessed reader. Balanced on a ladder, tucked into the "Metaphysics" section, he’s a man after our own hearts. #Art 💙📚

An 18th-century Rococo oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard titled "A Young Girl Reading." A young woman is shown in profile, sitting against a large, plush violet-pink pillow. She wears a vibrant saffron-yellow dress with a high, white ruffled collar (a "van Dyck" collar) and a purple ribbon in her brown hair, which is styled in a bun. She holds a small, gold-edged book in her right hand, her gaze fixed intently on the pages. The brushwork is fluid and expressive, with warm, golden light illuminating her face and the textures of the silk fabric.

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The world fades away when the story takes over. Fragonard’s "A Young Girl Reading" (c. 1769) perfectly captures that moment of total immersion. A timeless tribute to the quiet power of a book. #Art 💙📚

If everything goes according to plan, this will be the second to last #artworkwednesday I do before the boards are ready for stage 2!!! #indieanimation #cartoons #storyboards #werewolf #art #werewolfoc

#artworkwednesday rolls around again, and I’ve got some boards from the Home Stretch of the Razor the Rock and Roll Werewolf boards! Some great group shots in here, plus a snazzy new logo! #werewolf #indieanimation #storyboards #artwork #art #spookyseason comith

#artworkwednesday again, more boards, some spooky, some scary, some cute!

#artworkwednesday some more storyboards! We’re rapidly approaching the home stretch with these. #indieanimation #cartoons #werewolves #razortherockandrollwerewolf

#artworkwednesday here are some more Razor storyboards! Lots of spooky monster stuff and villains in this one. Also, idk how tags work on here, so I’m just gonna try a few out: #storyboarding #indieanimation #spooky #uh…clown…smoke…thing? #cartoons #cartoonist

Another #artworkwednesday have some of my favorite boards that I’ve done to date! Razor and the gang are starting to look good!

More storyboards for #artworkwednesday Jesus that t-rex takes forever to storyboard

Here we see the young Werewolf getting absolutely shmacked by a frying pan by a guy in a creepy mask.

Razor, the young werewolf, saves some wide-eyed lemur looking person from a freaky pig thing

Ben does a flip to escape the praying mantis he owes money to… probably, I don’t know

Sketches of Ben and Lisa. I am only now realizing Lisa kinda looks like if one of the whos from The Grinch had a psychotic episode.

Another #artworkwednesday mostly storyboard heavy this week. #storyboards #indieanimation