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A faded green grassy path, framed by silhouetted bare branched trees, leading of to a pale golden glow on the horizon. The sky is mostly white clouds with patches of blue.
Gathering Gloom
Noordhollands Duinreservaat
"Ivan Aivazovsky's 'Shipwreck' captures the tumultuous power of the sea as a lone ship battles towering waves under a stormy sky, showcasing his masterful use of light and movement. Known for his dramatic maritime scenes, Aivazovsky's work often reflects the sublime and unpredictable nature of the ocean."
Shipwreck https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/shipwreck-1854
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- Simon
watercolor painting of two fairy like rabbits. They have extra ears and are perched upright on wiggly branches in purple and green. The rabbits are greenish white, like they have feathers instead of fur.
A calm large woman cloaked in the forest. She holds up a small child who's dressed in red, and peers up at the giant with her hands on her hips, not afraid.
A teal raven with a feather in his beak, holding it over a quiet pond or puddle. There are green and blue roots and branches all around.
An orange fox peers at the viewer from his perch on roots and branches. They are olive green and gray.
Did you know I love the color green?
Yes?
What gave it away...
@everydayoriginal.bsky.social is having a holiday sale and I've got these paintings listed! Each come framed :)
everydayoriginal.com/winter-sale/ <- all the art!
everydayoriginal.com/artist/LauraSiadak/ <- MY art
Ends Dec 10th!
Artist sketchbook: the page shows three blobs. Under them is written "Books", "Plants", and "Yarn"
Artist sketchbook: a graphite doodle of a horned creature reading
Art studio WIP (with xmas tree in background): A lump of clay with a folded piece of cardstock jammed into it
Art sculpture on grey background: A blue creature with horns and yellow eyes, reading an ochre-colored book with more multicolored books behind it
The four stages of "Hungry for Knowledge", my book-loving Woolbeast troll sculpture at Beinart Gallery this month.
Lumps -> doodle -> lumps -> "draw the rest of the owl".
#artprocess #sculpting
watercolor painting of a crow perched in a tree in autumn colors. The crow is holding a gemstone pendant in its claws.
Another birb on a branch for #ArtAdventCalendar
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view of a geometric formal garden. It has rows of trees, stone paths and beds of pink, purple and green plants.
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
Was it Pratchett who said the IQ of a mob, is the lowest IQ of its members, divided by the number of legs?
Add to that people don’t like to go against “popular” opinion…
![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y)
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
Website Task Flowchart
xkcd.com/3175/
Can any of them actually tell the difference ?
Cover of the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree with grey heraldry showing Notre Dame bisected by a sword The text above reads "Enter a Ruined Paris", and below "March 10, 2026"
Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a dragon wrapped around grey heraldry showing a crowned hawthorn tree. The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "Ruled by Fallen Angels..." and "March 10, 2026"
Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger in flames wrapped around grey heraldry showing a hawk above a tower The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "And Dragons of the depths", "March 10, 2026"
Covers of all three books, The House of Shattered Wings (banyan tree and Notre Dame), The House of Binding Thorns (eastern dragon and crowned hawthorn tree), The House of Sundering Flames (tiger in flames and hawk over tower) The text reads "Read the Complete Trilogy", "Available in Ebook and Trade Paperback March 10, 2026"
I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Nevermind. Button just showed up…
Lovely
I must be missing something, but I don’t seem to be able to decorate the yard.
All of my art is 25% off until Wednesday
#BlackFriday
www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/-memb...
Nice weathering!
Found them, decided on giving them a pass. I think my sense of humour stops with my lemix demon hunter wearing sunglasses rather than a blindfold. 😎
This is one of those places that are more majestic, evocative, moving, from a distance, as here. We did go inside and through (amid crowds), climbed up to top, the view was superb, but the glory is seeing it from a ways away. The imagination set free. San Gimignano is like that for me, too.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Oh, probably missed that one.
Reminder to self: two more days to check/get it.
Cheers!
Reminds me of both Metropolis, and the Venus de Milo, possibly with a side of Michelangelo.
Love it…
I did wonder if she was wearing the full pelgrim outfit…
Let’s agree it was a good thing you did!
Painting of brown bear who sits on the forest floor, looking upward into the dark, snow-dusted trees. Snow is falling gently around the bear. Bright, golden, circular lights, resembling glowing snowflakes or lanterns, hang from the bare branches,
Foretelling the Snow. Hannah Willow.
Ethereal…
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
A middle aged wizard in an outfit resembling a WWII bomber crew uniform with leather jacket, but with a wizard hat and a spell book on her belt. She has a mischievous magpie familiar with glowing eyes and beak on her shoulder.
To be selected as arcano-bombardier captain in one of the Queen's floating citadels did "wonderful" things for Octavia's ego.
Grew up with them and still love them…
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