afterglowさんのイラストまとめ

“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotise"

Painting has an advantage in capturing rain. It becomes about how rain changes your perspective

@Farts_Johnson @jamesdleech "That's a joke, son!"

@Farts_Johnson @jamesdleech sure thing. Just getting a pencil.

there.

now, as you can see, it's not what you'd call large is it?

Brueghel's earlier solo painting of Eden, where humans are almost a background afterthought

artists influenced by changing technology:

Cezeanne wrote about how his perception of landscapes was changed by seeing them on moving trains

"it shows you only the great outlines....Don't ask it for details, but for the living whole"

I could look at the weird wild covers of JG Ballard novels for hours

something beautiful: Cezanne's view of the bay of L'Estaque,
as the seasons changed, and as his style changed

@reesefinchs Many, many happy returns to an amazing friend.

I hope this is your best year ever, so proud to know you.

some art created in February-Van Gogh

Landscape with Snow (1888)
Cypresses and Two Women (1890)
Almond Blossom (1890)

Spring is coming

Books I got this week

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY EARTH by Isabel Greenberg
(love, snow, god, poisoned sausages)

WIRE ME TO THE MOON by Margaret Dolan
(upbeat stories of entrapment & revolt)

THE MOSS WITCH by Sara Maitland
(fusing raw elements of scientific theory with ancient myth)