Man with Puppet sketches. Getting it wrong. Thinking I liked the turn of the head, but not sure now. Thinking about Rustin saying he didn't want his figure paintings to be anecdotal.

Soldier with Sword - 1894
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105370

The Wolf Man (1941) Stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role with Claude Rains, Warren William and Patric Knowles.

The shoe fits in the 1899 Méliès version of CINDERELLA (Georges himself plays the prince)

An intimate, closely cropped portrait of the artist's wife, Elisa Marcucci, turning to look at the viewer, in an unusually wide frame of dark wood with curved corners

Giacomo Balla, Il dubbio (Doubt), 1907/1908, 67 x 50 cm, Oil on paper (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome). A portrait of the artist's wife Elisa Marcucci.

Fine, fierce leopard, painted by Maerten de Vos, who died on this day in 1603. With maybe a little idol-worship happening beyond his tail.

Problems with the Artist's Statement; 1; It makes me write with certainty.

Morris Graves, Winter Flowers (mixed media on paper, 1976)

digital painting of a dunnock

Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?

"Invocation" by Remedios Varo depicts a mysterious scene where a central figure, holding a horn, stands before an assemblage of ethereal, robed figures embedded into the surrounding cavernous walls. Varo's meticulous detail and surreal style evoke themes of mysticism and inner exploration, characteristic of her work within surrealism and symbolism.

Invocation
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19691

Purity Purity is a collection of short stories by Andrzej Tichý, a Czech writer living in Sweden and writing in Swedish. In this collection, which has been translated into English by Nichola Smalley, Tich…

Book 33 from my choice of 40 from the backlist is Purity, a collection of social realist stories about immigrant, working class life in Sweden by Andrzej Tichý, translated by Nichola Smalley, published by @andotherstories.bsky.social
It's brilliant.
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I've never seen this painting. It's great. Thanks for posting it. I wonder if he was inspired by Sergeants Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.

Even a rubbish day is a good day in the studio. Sketch book ink drawings done today.

Black and white photograph of Lori on stage playing a headless man with his head tucked under his arm thing okay this man is Chris a dummy and Lori has his head stuck out through the crook of his arm from this angle it's not the most convincing special effect but the lugubrious expression on his face is powerful

Peter Lorre in Spring Awakening, Berlin, 1929

A brush with... Mary Kelly Podcast Episode · A brush with... · 26/11/2025 · 1h

Excellent interview with Mary Kelly. Particularly interesting when talking about the unique hopelessness of the present moment when compared to other previously rubbish times.
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Man with Puppet sketches

Man with Puppet image. Sketchbook drawing while half-to-three-quarters doing something else.

"Theft of Substance," from the collection of Remedios Varo, depicts a surreal scene where cloaked figures gather mysteriously around a small fire. The otherworldly atmosphere is accentuated by figures on the right, seemingly suspended, creating an enigmatic and eerie composition characteristic of Varo's imaginative style.

Theft of substance
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20042

study for Man with Puppet

swirling abstraction in pink, tan, cream, black with a central blue gemstone

stuttering fragment // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025

#collageart #paper #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

Sketchbooks working around Animal Bridegroom image

In my dream

In my dream the shower is being slowly overrun by "encephilids" ant-like insects whose segmented bodies are swollen and mottled, veined like rancid meat. Each one I see is larger than the last. The shower's glass door slides shut, catching the ones at the top. I hear them pop and feel…

Bride

'Winter Trees.' (1890) Benjamin Haughton had a remarkable facility for painting woodland. Here, he's pictured a segment of a copse with exquisitely rendered detail which brings with it the stillness and mystery that characterizes his best landscapes.