Lovely-tried-blog - Art (I Tried)

Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

types of people: creature inspired

• night owl: telling secrets to the stars, poems written at 3 AM, messy hair and sleepy smiles

• angel: sunlight making bare skin glow, the swoop of a dove’s wing, the warmth of a long hug

• forest nymph: flowers picked and placed in friends’ hair, faded pages of fairytale books, holding hands with everyone

• unicorn: smiling at strangers, warm sunshine after the rain, spilled glitter that’s too pretty to clean up

• siren: hand-written love letters slipped into bottles, seashell anklets, humming songs while lying in the tub

• fairy: the feel of moss on barefeet, whispering stories in the dark, soft giggles drifting through the wind

Jandy Nelson could make a story about Noah Sweetwine eating peanut butter and I would read it and probably cry about it

types of people

north: Brand new red converse, shorts, and ice cold stares. Stargazing on tailgates, imagining the sound of the ocean, iced coffee with your three closest friends. A sense of adventure hand in hand with wandering hearts.

south: Sidewalk dandelions, jean jackets, half finished journals and laptop stickers. It’s having been to every little cafe and garage sale, warm smiles and mugs of tea, dreamy sunsets, questioning life but feeling at peace.

east: Basement bedrooms, frosted windows, watching the sunrise, sailing on windy afternoons. It’s pursuing science and desiring art, drawing on condensation covered windows, and wanting to do something but not knowing how.

west: The active laziness of certainty, sunglasses, contagious laughter, relaxed expressions but a storm underneath. Layering clothes, cruising with the top down, forgetting you already grabbed a water bottle. Clouded heads and clear eyes.

Set It Up (dir. Claire Scanlon)

A concept

Brian wanting to paint something awesome for noah and asking jude for help because let’s be honest the boy can’t even draw a straight line. And Jude gets so excited !!!! She gathers pamphlets and art books and tries to teach him a billion techniques he can’t even begin to comprehend and he’s just! so! lost! He spends a week working on 5 different sketches and “ohmygod jude they’re terrible, i’m terrible, i don’t know how you two do it, i should have sticked to sports. Do you think he’d like a signed ball??? Or maybe a telescope??” Oscar just laughs because god damn of course picasso would fall in love with a guy who can’t tell the difference between the color yellow and the color mustard. In the end, he ends up giving Noah a simple pencil drawing of him and noah star gazing with smudges all over bc he’s left handed and the struggle is real. he writes a tiny ‘i love you’ in the corner of the paper with a smiley face bc he’s a fucking dork like that and he’s so embarrased when he gives it to Noah like srsly he can’t even look at him. But even though it’s kinda terrible and it looks like it was done by a 9-year-old in sweetwine standards, Noah absolutely loves it. And late at night he stares at it and tries to hold back tears because jesus he has spent so much of his time drawing and painting the world and the people around him and no one besides his sister had ever taken the time to draw something JUST FOR HIM. and of course he spends the rest of the week grinning ,feeling like he’s walking on clouds and god he’s honestly considering having it framed????? and he’s so so glad he isn’t a horse because he loves that rock-collecting baseball-playing boy so damn much and he doesn’t know where he would be without him.

Some knowledge ✊🏾

Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

The Imitation Game (2014), dir. Morten Tyldum

I didn’t learn this on my own, of course. I had help. Christopher helped.

types of people

shades of purple

lavender: oversized sweaters, stark contrasts, misunderstood jokes, loud laughter, pencil shading rubbing off on skin, overflowing emotions, appreciated nostalgia, star-gazing, late-night conversations

wisteria: adrenaline crashes, ocean mist, layering clothes, lighthearted games of truth or dare, messy hair, bubbly laughter from excess energy, the tired satisfaction of a full day

lilac: neon lights, bright cities, slightly smudged make-up, a fast beating heart, secret confessions, too-loud music, wide smiles between friends, freedom from deadlines, the ache of what could have been

mauve: comfortable silences, rainy days, organized shelves, discovering a new interest, hot tea, eye bags, getting lost in thought, absentminded singing, the epiphany that comes from understanding a concept

plum: smiling at a stranger, spontaneous conversations, winged eyeliner, total honesty, animated gestures, fluorescent lighting, stores at 2am, pinkie promises, holding hands, reminiscent stories, conversations about the future

amethyst: uncertain smiles, subtle exchanged glances, paint-stained hands, inside jokes, cups of coffee, multi-tasking, unspoken promises, a not-quite persistent yearning, shaky breaths, a constantly calm demeanor