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Illustrations by Francisco Fonseca, a talented freelance illustrator from Porto, Portugal.

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ok u know what. golden hour is great and all, but u know what time of day is super underappreciated??? BLUE hour

that time of day right after the sun sets or right before it rises…. *chef kiss* love that

Pictures of Sunsets through Shattered Mirrors by Bing Wright 

Bestiary and wildlife.

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Painting by Seth Armstrong (born and raised in Los Angeles, California).

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metsänpeitto – forest blanket. In Finnish mythology, this is the name of a place or state of mind where you can be led by magical creatures of the forest (dwarves?) and where even a familiar forest can seem strange and deceptive. in the past, people who got lost in the forest for unexplained reasons said that they 'fell under the forest cover'. 'but there's a way out!' that's what my grandmother used to say, which her mother taught her once when they got lost in a cloudberry swamp. 'I need to turn my socks inside out!'

— Saara Alhopuro

Pictures by rubrum_one

Comfort Zone

Gwen John - Self Portrait (1902)

Gwen John was a Welsh artists whose legacy mostly consists of portraits of anonymous female sitters. During her lifetime she was overshadowed by her bother Augustus, however, today it seems that his prophecy that “in 50 years I will be known as Gwen John’s brother” has come true since most contemporary art critics see her as the more talented of the two.

At 27 she permanently moved Paris since it was easier there for young women to make a living. She lived a fairly solitary life with her cats, devoted most of her time to painting and had several passionate love affairs with men and women. She created several thousand art works that have been praised for their atmosphere of serenity and a reduced colour palette, and are presented in major contemporary collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery.

冬眠

Mentally, I’m living in a little blue house on the coast and it’s foggy and I can feel the sea air in my lungs and I’m writing poetry in the attic while the sun trickles in through the windows.

Dawn and Dusk / illustrations by Alphonse Mucha, 1899.

Rebecca Solnit, from The Faraway Nearby

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)

Excerpt from What the Living Do, Mary Howe (transcript under the cut)

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Illustrations from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911.

Music Advent 16

Harmony, 1877, Frank Dicksee

Wolfwalkers (2020)

“Mammy said this would be bad. Like, never to bite anyone. But I love it!”