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5,300-year-old ‘bow drill’ rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.

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A screech-owl, its feathers etched like bark and its eyes twin embers, perches amid a tangle of skeletal branched in twilight—Arthur Rackham’s haunting omen from Jorinda and Joringel.

“A screech-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and cried three times ‘Shu hu-hu.’”

(Grimm)

🎨 Arthur Rackham

#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday

The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with new concubine, who's described as having long black tresses and a face as beautiful as the moon. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom. #FairyTaleTuesday

Late Night Low Tide.

#Art

© Diane Griffiths

Wyrdlings!

Swedish storyteller Elsa Beskow turns 152 this week, reason enough to give you:

“Sabaton, Snorri, Storsjöodjuret - Strange Scandi Stories!”

as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic!

Come, tell tales, of elks, sea rovers and Nordic Noire!

Amazing afternoon “sun flurry” clouds on my way back from the supermarket.

My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS

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Lunch on the Grass (study) - 1865
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6668

The Italian Fairy Book By Anne Macdonell; Green cover with white and orange lettering Illustration of Princess in white and dragon with tree in background

Book Cover of the Day:

i just reposted ai art thinking it's real please kill me this moment

#LandscapePainting #Landscape #Art #Dreams

#clouds
#BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #art #sky #visualarts #peaceful

Exploring narratives which I do not want to experience but recognize that others have likely traveled through. I find I am a better person when I can empathetically related to others feelings and experiences.

Orphaned
48" x 36" Oil on Panel 2010

An illustration m; The Lady and the Lion by Arthur Rackham, created for the 1909 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The image depicts a scene from the German fairy tale The Singing, Springing Lark (also known as The Lady and the Lion), collected by the Brothers Grimm. The specific text for this illustration is "She went away accompanied by the Lions".

‘But as he approached the tree, a lion jumped up from beneath it, shook himself, and roared until the leaves on the trees trembled. "I will eat up anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!" he cried.’ ~ Brothers Grimm for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Rackham

L. Birge Harrison (American, 1854–1929). Winter Sunset (1890, oil on panel).

A beaked horror treads through hazy clouds of a dusty apocalypse. Black legs, nothing more than bone and ligament, are thrown so far in front in defiance of gravity it may as well be sitting on the blocky slope it descends. It tip toes on a trio of bird-like feet. There's a notch in its beak where nostrils would be, and the remnants of flesh of its victims stretches between jagged serrations.

TRIPOD WALKER (2016)

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper - 19" x 13"



Painted on the back of a misprinted Dark Tower image I was using as a mixing palette of mostly white, yellow ocher, and raw umber. 1/4

In Captain Upton’s House (1927), Hopper aligns rooflines and sky in carefully measured intervals. The composition gives the coastal house a clear, almost musical rhythm that echoes the spare structure and order of New England’s maritime working landscapes.

Victor Pasmore. (British, 1908-1998)

Girl Sewing,1942.

Oil on canvas, (62.3 x 75 cm.)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

Good morning.

From my #landscape #art, #illustrationart, and #photography portfolio: "Late Winter Morning in London, 1880s"

My painting SEA PINKS

Camille Monet at the Window, Argentuile - 1873
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8202

Photo of a sketch on a table with 6 pens on it. The sketch is a landscape of trees and some rock formation in the background. On a big rock stands a little samurai silhouette and somewhere sits a cat. Ink on a4 paper.

Daily sketch 🪾🗻🥷🐈‍⬛️

I think you can spot the cat. Right ?

#art #artsky #ink #sketch

In The Garden
#AnjoNala #Reverse1999

Sword Saint - comm work

Illustration from Walter Crane's Painting Book, London, 1889. #booksky #artsky

Misty Morning on the Seine in Bue - 1897
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10701

A watercolour painting of a female great spotted woodpecker on a tree, with shadows and light

Just finished my first painting of 2026, I’ce titled it ‘Woodpecker & Shadows’ - painted in watercolours.

#watercolours #birdart #woodpecker 🪶

Deer girl #Deltarune