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And now for something completely different…

Girl and Cat, 1924
Water colour on paper

Sulho Sipilä (Finnish, 1895-1949)
Turku Art Museum

Dreaming of flight...
Great Horned Owlet

Preparing for flight...
Great Horned Owlet
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

Great Egret chicks arrive with style...
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

Soup (2 NY strip steaks in a cast iron skillet, with butter over each one)

Soup of the day: New York strip steak

"[I]n the one little particular of scolding – just good, clean, out-and-out scolding – a bluejay can lay over anything, human or divine." -Mark Twain

A Belted Kingfisher flying over one of the few spots of open water. It's been cold enough lately here in Michigan that most of the water spots have frozen over.

Stephen Bone painted a series of paintings aboard submarines during the Second World War. This one is nattily titled 'S-Class Submarine: The Wardroom and Forward Mess Deck Seen through the Davis Escape Chamber.'

Thanks for the art and your insight. Happy New Year!

Painted for Collier's Magazine's in December 1910, Maxfield Parrish's 'The Lantern Bearers,' is a prime example of work from this period. A phenomenally successfully artist, in the 1920s it was estimated one in four American households had a print of one of his pictures.

The trumpeting call of a Sandhill Crane hanging in the air. I heard a Sandhill Crane pair calling down the trail and wondered if I could see their call in the current conditions.I quickly tootled over to the Cranes, working to get an angle of where their call could be seen

Well now my puzzler is sore.

Going back to basics. Sick of making rookie mistakes and sick of digital tools (undo, layers) reinforcing bad habits.

'Christmas Rose.' (1923) Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers, endless, boundless. timeless pictures. 'I find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty, yet there is hidden within a deeper beauty,' he once wrote.

A memorable stay in Scarborough resulted in a few drawings and watercolours plus some completed later in the studio (such as this sepia ink drawing)

Scarborough harbour, recent pen and sepia ink drawing.
#art #drawing #boats #scarborough

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

I’ll be right over

I remember liking Beany and Cecil when I was a kid in the mid-sixties but I don’t think I’ve seen it since. I do not remember it being this good. Thanks for this!

In this work from 1905, John Singer Sargent depicts a view of a sotto portego, or passageway, off the Rio della Misericordia in Venice. Painting in watercolour, from a gondola, allowed him to quickly capture the effects of light on architecture and the movement of water.

A panel from a comic book: ""November 14th: A partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing"

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day today all who celebrate

When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.

Zinaida Serebriakova painted 'Bleaching Linen,' a few months before the October Revolution in 1917 - as always with her work of this period there's a sense of Nicolas Poussin's influence, a style that would change after the Soviet period as Serebriakova struggled to sell her work

I particularly love the books piled on top of each other on the shelves. I think I would like these people.

Looking ahead to a relaxing day…

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” - Mark Twain

Purchase

Max Ernst, The Nymph Echo ( La Nymphe Écho), Paris 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135173

In Walter Greaves' portrait, Whistler (1871) embodies Sir John Lavery’s description of him: his: ‘eyebrows were thick and black, his eyes sharp as needles – he had beautiful hands…and his general appearance was that of a small alert ringmaster, whip in hand.'

I’m going to stop scrolling for the evening on this edifying and uplifting post. G’night.

I was shooting straight up while a female Pileated Woodpecker headed to another tree.

Roman glass work from 300 AD.