Nikki Vega

Brian Froud - Troll Witch.
Oil on canvas.

A low-angle, eye-level perspective looking through a large, weathered stone archway of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris. The ground is paved with uneven cobblestones, and to the left, a small portion of the Seine river is visible. In the distance, through the arch, a single person walks along a path lined with green trees. The overall atmosphere is historic and serene, captured under a pale sky.

Pont Neuf, Paris.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

Is it socially acceptable to ask her agency? According to her website:

Frances is represented by the Wylie Agency. Contact mail[at]wylieagency.co.uk.

A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black printing ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a Signalman and his box. The man stands at the foot of the stairs to his signalbox which is situated at the bottom of a rocky and wooded ravine. The box is illuminated from within, its light casts shadows of the man onto a railway track, the track runs into a dark and damp tunnel. Outside of the mouth of the tunnel stands a ghostly figure waving its arms, one across its face the other in the air. A gloomy and atmospheric scene.

I’m making my originals for The Signalman available to purchase. I doubt they’ll ever be published and they’re just sitting in a drawer, I’d like to think that they’re on a wall somewhere (and that I’ve got some brass for them!).

Soon…watch this space.

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New painting! "Midsummer Procession", 33"x 21", Oil on Linen.

On the Origin of Fuck One origin story for fuck is that it comes from when sex was outlawed unless it was permitted explicitly by the king, so people who were legally banging had Fornication Under Consent of the King on…

The leading expert on the subject is Kate Wiles, senior editor at History Today, who wrote this: solongasitswords.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/o...

A white blossom just about half open on a dark twig. Leaf buds opening around it. The rest of the tree is blurry in the background. Bright spring sunshine.

Spring is coming. Apricots are blooming. 🍑

#BloomScrolling #Spring #Puglia

Un personnage à trouvé la lune et pense la remettre à sa place

Street-art comme j'aime. Bonne soirée à tous et à toutes.

I'm originally from the same latitudes as you. Moved waaay south specifically because I really, really hate cold weather, but of course now it's freezing here as well 🥶 It's so annoying that after five weeks of this I'm looking for someone to pin the blame on 😄

A historical weather chart from meteocentre.co.uk, showing that we've barely had any snow these past two weeks

In fact we've been buried under snow since Xmas.

Sigh.

The tiny cupid aiming right at those multiple eyes is wildly determined. Love this mood.
@dolcepaganne.bsky.social "HYPNOS" (2025) 'inspired by the Greek god of sleep Hypnos'
Soft pastels and colored pencils on paper, 50x50 cm

#beautifulbizarre #popsurrealism #coloredpencils #mythology #fineart

Blue monochrome oil painting of a woman sitting surrounded and covered in blue ivy. Part of secret garden series.

Hello! Finally the good part of painting multiples, finishing them almost at the same time. Completed the third one this week. 5th painting for the secret garden series.🍃

#secretgarden #oilpainting #BlueSkyArt #art #BRart #traditionalart #blueart #trueref

Say what you will about the Anglo-Irish gentry, they did have a talent for names. Today I came across Middleton Westrena Biddulph of Rathrobin, Mountbolus, and his brother Assheton of Moneyguyneen House, Kinnitty.

The Migraine Trust website says it happens, and it's called 'silent migraine.' Hope you feel better in no time! 🌹

Ugh. All this prominence, and still can't afford to choose your bedfellows?

Panel 1. A graveyard: the gravedigger sits on a pile of earth. Hamlet stands before him, holding a skull. Hamlet: “Alas, poor yorick! I knew him, professor Horatio.” He tis looking at a lab-coated figure. Prof. Horatio: “Actually, my analysis suggests this skull belonged to a young woman from the late Neolithic era.” Panel 2. Leaving the graveyard Hamlet: “Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.” Prof. Horatio: “What’s that, my lord?” Hamlet (angrily): “Dost thou have to spoil everything.”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

ornate building, high gothic in design. trams and people on a busy street,

Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italy, c. 1900

Estatua que adorna, juntament amb una altra que no surt a la imatge, la façana de la casa Solà a Olot, d'estil modernista.

La dama del balcó. Casa Solà. Olot. Mirades profundes.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Stunday #EastCoastKin

It could be used with intention, e.g. the singular to emphasise denial of personhood ('The staff is nice enough' = your character doesn't acknowledge them as individuals), but mostly it just needs to sound right. You're eloquent, even in mundane posts, so you can safely go with your gut 🥂

A judgment call, depends on whether the group, in this context and in your opinion, is individuals acting together or more of a single entity that contains multitudes.

'England have scored a goal,' but 'England is sending troops,' that sort of thing. A flock of birds is likely singular.

A lone jelly shot against the setting sun on a golden beach, waves coming in from the right. The jelly throws a long shadow towards the viewer, a streak of sun glare behind it.

Got a little lost 🪼

#BlueskyArtShow #One #Archive #IslandLife

Was it on Google? You know you can switch off all that nonsense, right? Append -ai to the query, et voilà. On duckduckgo, you can disable it all in the settings and forget about it altogether.

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

A birch tree is covered in hoar frost beside a beautiful royal blue loch, from the cairngorms national park in Scotland. Captured by drone, this shows a very unique perspective of a tree backed by water. Captured by Chris Harrison

The magic of winter ❄️

Hoar frost covers this old birch beside a small lochen deep in the Scottish wilderness.

#winter #nature #woodland #photography

The Wolf moon setting on Saturday morning in @visitnorthyorks.bsky.social #sharemondays2026 #fsprintmonday

A tweet by Dan Snow, from 6 Jan 2023: 'Today in 1897 William Pancoast died. In 1884 he conducted the first successful artificial insemination, injecting sperm from his "best-looking" student, a Mr Addison Hard, yup, into an anaesthetised woman—without her consent—whose husband was infertile He never told her the truth' A reply, on the same day, by ARC @locka99: 'And coincidentally the turkey baster was invented on the same day'

Pretend I posted this yesterday

Watercolour painting of some flowers to brighten up your day! #art #watercolours #painting

People are still paying MS? 😖 Why? LibreOffice is open-source, European, not infested with AI, and free

Consider the silhouette :) If you want a pleated skirt, I'd add flat panels at the top, pleats from the hips, midi length, and wear with a top that ends where the skirt begins, in one of the colours present in the tartan.