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The @BranRiverMuseum didn't do its usual First Sunday doodle session with @GeneBarretta since it was Easter. So we contented ourselves with an encore YouTube episode; here's my sloppy take on "Matty the Manroostacoonilla" (mashup of manatee, raccoon, rooster, gorilla)! Yikes
Ain't really Christmas around the Neff place without the traditional no-warning throwdown Crayola Challenge™ on the living room floor. This year Sarah Neff managed to craft this elegant, winsome baby dragon, while I, as usual, mainly succeeded in making a mess
SARAH NEFF'S CAT: "So, what should we do tonight to celebrate your 25th birthday, Sarah?"
SARAH NEFF: "Same thing we do every night, kitty!
"TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD"
I'm thinking anything that could mess up the guy's face that badly probably should have taken his head clean off. But he probably made his saving throw
240 years ago today off the Yorkshire coast, @USNavy demigod #JohnPaulJones in his converted merchant frigate Bonhomme Richard defeated British HMS Serapis in a crazy, plucky, uphill, Horatio Hornblower-esque battle. By coincidence, we visited the old boy at @USNAMuseum yesterday
@americanart Steeped in classical allegory, Brumidi's painting was also topical, with sexy vignettes like this starred-and-striped goddess Athena swooping down in vengeance on figures meant to represent Confederate government leaders
Trippy, oddly rewarding bit of "pop-shamanism" (or let's just say digital art) from @Android_Jones, part of the @BurningMan exhibition at the @americanart @RenwickGallery. Jones is an Industrial Light & Magic alum, so more going on here than just sunscreen and drugs
An all-but-unknown N.C. Wyeth, "Spring" (1901), hanging at the Brandywine @BranRiverMuseum in Pa. Not a commissioned illustration, this was a private wedding gift to one of Wyeth's students.