𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔞 🍃

a quote i wrote in black fountain pen ink on a page of a notebook in a dark blue leather passport sized Traveler's Notebook cover. it reads: "Agnes DeMille, on Martha Graham: The greatest thing she ever said to me was in 1943 after the opening of OKLAHOMA! when I suddenly had unexpected, flamboyant success for a work i thought was only fairly good, after years of neglect for work I thought was fine.I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy.I talked to Martha...in a Schrafft's restaurant, over a soda. I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith I could be. Martha said to me, very quietly: 'There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it willbe lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that morivate you. Keep the channel open As for you, Agnes, you have so far used about one-third of your talent.'"

do you ever just think about the Agnes de Mille / Martha Graham "keep the channel open" story. i find it so profoundly moving, i had to copy it into my quote book in fountain pen

Children of Termina

A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))

I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨

Pale figure among rose branches with moon overhead

Moonlight grown 🌹 #art

北風／冬の朝／寒気が参る

#illust #illust #art #artwork #procreate

Photo of a sketchbook on a desk surrounded by paint tubes and brushes. The sketchbook is open, displaying a painting made with gouache. The painting shows a natural landscape with a big tree in springtime on a sunny day. There are white and yellow wildflowers growing in the grass below the tree.

dreaming of springtime 🌿✨

Composite of nine digital scenery paintings: 1. Rough landscape digital painting of an old castle overrun by nature. In the foreground a couple of children are holding bouquets. 2. Rough landscape digital painting of a field covered in snow. A golden yellow tiny person is leading their horse through it. 3. Rough landscape digital painting of a couple of houses surrounded by trees and lost in the mountains. 4. Landscape and cityscape digital painting inspired by Bar-le-Duc, France. 5. Rough digital painting of an orange cat taking a nap in an old oak tree. 6. Landscape digital painting of an old train station surrounded by nature. An old rusty railway leads there from the foreground. 7. Rough digital painting of a girl up a hill, standing next to a human-built old source. A green valley extends up the horizon while clouds and a bird fly by. 8. Rough digital painting of a girl jumping from rock to rock across a river. In the background a forest is slowly changing to its autumn colors. 9. Rough landscape digital painting of a little house in a valley lost in the mountains.

Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm a french illustrator specializing in landscapes and sceneries.
I'm available for freelance work.
✉️ arthur@baron-clement.com
🔗 arthur.baron-clement.com/en/

psyduck 🩵✨ #pokémon #art #fanart

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

to vanish into the noise

#art

A collage of characters from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Link is napping and leaning on Epona while Sheik plays their harp. Above above them is a frame with a painting of Zelda. The frame is surrounded by enemies from the game. Atop the frame is Ganon leaning and smirking menacingly

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#loz #tloz #zelda #zeldafanart #ocarinaoftime

sasquatch looks in dismay, across a canyon, as the sun sets beyond a volcano. Caption reads “the dumb-assed sun fell real slow into my volcano

Sasquatch Diaries Feb 2nd
sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org

digital illustration of a dandelion. a bun stands atop its stem while another bun is flying away on one of its seeds.

one with the wind🍃
#art

A digital manga drawing of Davy Jones from "Pirates of the Caribbean" peacefully sleeping among colorful coral and oceanic fauna. The shadow of the Kraken swims by in the background.

"The Sea At Rest" (My art) (I had this idea of Davy chilling and had to make it real, he deserves it) ♡

anyways, today is also the day i spent money on this game for the first time ever (despite not playing as much as i used to, though i still do dailies)... all for the sake of this dapper outfit. 😳💙

i like it so much more than his default tbh, and so...!!! 🙈

screenshot of spreadsheet showing the three latest 5-star characters pulled from the game genshin impact: jean, zibai, and neuvillette.

screenshot of a 10-pull from the game genshin impact. the two 5-star characters shown are zibai and jean.

OMFG, THANK!!! 🙏🙏🙏

if this is a consolation prize for losing the 50/50 for columbina (got c6 keqing instead 🥲) then i'm okay with this, laksjlf;; ;

the pity for zibai & jean surpassed the previous record (kazuha at 2 pity). 😳

yeah, i think even if it doesn't end, i don't regret reading the books. i enjoy the world a lot and the friendships / camaraderie it's brought me. 🥺 if the next book were to come out, i'd probably pick it up after some time, once the excitement had died down, so i could read it in peace, lol.

Ludvig Kabell (1853-1902), Danish painter. Title: Landscape with an avenue
Date of artwork between 1871 and 1902. Oil on canvas.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

anyways, i'll probably read them when / if the last books come out, but it's not something i'm stewing over. i'm well-experienced when it comes to unfinished series (X, NANA...), i'll be fine, lol.

(also, that con panel experience is insane. so rude of that "fan", wtf is wrong with ppl nowadays. 💀)

years ago, it sounded like he had a clear idea of how ASoIaF will end, but now he sounds less certain. his line about sansa makes me wonder how much the show will end up influencing it...? (not sure how i feel about that tbh, lol.)

Heavy Is the Crown: George R.R. Martin on His Triumphs and Torments At the height of his reign, the 'Game of Thrones' author gets candid about his efforts to rule his expanding media empire, his buzzy new show 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,' and the long-delayed sag...

finally had time to fully read THR's GRRM interview (www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...). lots of interesting bits to think about...

for instance, i was aware (vaguely?) of the difficulty he had with some HBO showrunners, but i didn't know it had gotten that bad (gives context to HotD s2).

old magic #frieren

digital illustration of a sun high-fiving a bun on the swing set with a group of other buns swinging

high five🌞
#art

chibi icon commissions text on the bottom, with four chibi examples in a grid.

reopening my chibis as well! :D $35 USD per, turnaround time about a month!! :D as always although my examples are FFXIV i'm happy to draw any OCs, fanart etc!! if you're interested please fill out my form linked below, more examples and my ToS are on my carrd linked below as well!

#commissionsopen

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

dammit, the temptation grows!!! 😭 work is still pretty busy for me atm 😪 but being snowed in and everything makes me just want to get cozy with a game—especially one i can explore in, alskjklf;; ; 🥺 (if i can't go outside irl, let me touch grass in a game, lol...)

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)

AAAHHH, CONGRATS on finishing!!! 🎊 looovvee how soothing & calm the color palette is. 🥺💗 i'm still thinking about trying ffxiv 👀💦 so i just read the intro (i thought the free trial was just the base game—i had no idea expansions 1-2 are playable?!), but the "party" section intrigues me greatly. 👀

This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.