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Mary Stuart and William II, Anthony van Dyck, 1641
Mary and William were mere children when they married: she was nine, he fourteen. Quite unusually she stands on the left due to her higher status – Mary was a king’s daughter, William the son of a stadholder and prince. Mary’s wedding ring highlights the bond
between Holland and England, which was cemented with this marriage. She also wears a diamond brooch, another gift from William.

oil on canvas, h 180cm × w 132.2cm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-102

Mary Stuart and William II, Anthony van Dyck, 1641

I could use some light in this darkness right now, so I thought I'd share a gorgeous image from JWST.

This cosmic butterfly is a star being born. New planets are forming within the vertical dark line. Galaxies shine through the scene from the far distance.

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2508a/

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fantastic new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disc located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within the Taurus star-forming region. With Webb, researchers can study the properties and growth of dust grains within protoplanetary discs like this one, shedding light on the earliest stages of planet formation.

Update: This made my morning! We tracked down the original artist of the amazing pugatee drawing, and they got back to me!

While they're not actively posting drawn art anymore, they do have a YouTube channel where they occasionally post music.

So, let's make Vondell's Monday better.

If you have a moment, check out their music, leave a nice comment, and tell 'em Alice sent you 💕

https://youtube.com/@itsvondell

Update: You can support Vondell and buy their album on BandCamp here: https://vondell.bandcamp.com/album/2015-was-ten-years-ago-a-mashup-mixtape

An adorable drawing of a pug-manatee mashup, floating in a white void. It has the cutest, grumpy, smooshed-up pug face, and a furry manatee body with nubby tail and front flippers. It was originally drawn by Vondell on Tumblr, roughly a decade ago.
oh wow, incredible sleuthwork by you and the thread! this is, if memory serves, one of the first of my drawings that ever got wide traction on my tumblr when I believe I was still in high school, which would be followed by a prolific few years of being extremely active across different blogs as I pursued the beginning of a professional art career, ultimately becoming overwhelmed and scaling back just a twitter and instagram, then culminating with me falling away from social media as a whole and moving back to rural [place] where I now live and work full time at a farm animal rescue. It's so wild to see that drawing after all this time and it has brightened my day quite a lot! The only social channel or website I keep at the moment is my youtube channel @itsvondell, where I put my occasional mashup music projects and. I still draw and make art of all sorts, mostly for fun or for a handful of longtime clients, but it's been a while since I shared it very widely online like I used to. Who knows what the future may hold though. I don't believe anyone else in the world shares [my username], so any account anyone ran into with any variation of [Vondell] is some snapshot of me from some point in time. For better or for worse, lol. Anyway, you have my express permission and blessing to repost, repurpose, modify or otherwise use the pugatee drawing for any purpose you may want to!

Now that I’ve followed seven painting tutorials by Bob Ross, here is my first attempt at painting a landscape using what I learned. Bob encourages his viewers to use his techniques to create their own worlds, and so I used my own color choices and composition here, made up entirely from my imagination. Bob uses a lot more brown and gray than I like to paint. So I let loose and used brighter colors. Unlike Bob, I used a set of five basic mixing colors of Royal Talens gouache in CMYKW. This little painting is 4.5” square on cotton paper.

Landscape panting of sunset with clouds, hills, trees, shrubs, and water.

15 Dec 'a non-literary artistic tradition which inspires you'

A few days ago I was talking with an art critic about "affectations", for example the mouse carved into all the furniture made by Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson

In Book2 two of my characters take up paining and they will be including a Manx affectation in their work, a tiny face of a tiny Mooinjer Veggey

Wikipedia image - a wooden mouse carved into a pillar of a church altar. The floor has a red carpet

Day 13: Is there a creative activity you used to enjoy, but has now become a chore?

I used to draw chibi of my friend's original characters as gifts. I don't do it as much anymore because people began to expect it.