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Pictures of Sunsets through Shattered Mirrors by Bing Wright 

W.H. Auden, from "Funeral Blues"

Moira Smiley, from "Donal Og"

Another Walk In The Snow by Dee Nickerson

painting

maybe if you bundled yourself up and went for a walk out in the cold then came back inside with rosy cheeks and cool skin and warmed yourself up with a nice warm cup of herbal tea with honey maybe then you’d calm down

oh potatus et molassus etc etc

windows • james patterson/ jonathan cooper/natalia tour/henri matisse/ anastasia dukhanina/vladimir zhivotkov/ adolph menzel/elena yushina

Childhood can be scary.

A collection of some of my hand-drawn horror looping animations!

i sat quietly beside the window, closed my eyes and listened to the rhythm of gentle waves hitting the sea shore...

Here are the blog’s most popular paintings in 2020, in no particular order:

Henriette Ronner-Knip (Dutch, 1821 - 1909): Hide and seek and The Young Artist

Julia Beck (Swedish, 1853 - 1935): L'Etang (Brume)

Averil Burleigh (British, 1883 - 1949): Bacchants

Margherita Caffi (Italian, 1650 - 1710): Vase of Flowers

Antonietta Brandeis (Czech, 1848 - 1926): Venice, Palazzo Marino Aliero, Canale Grande  

Pegi Nicol MacLeod (Canadian, 1904 - 1949): Pair of Hands Knitting with Red Wool and Pair of Hands Knitting with Green Wool (1942)

peter brown / marcel rieder / sally storch / edward hopper / philip geiger / warren chang