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I've drawn Zipponeko, and now I've colored her. Ironically my own Zippo broke down the exact day I've drawn her lines. What could it mean? Was my Zippo angry that I didn't draw her specific engraving? We shall never know.
@silly_chaotic Thanks for the opportunity 🌻I'm either monochromic or very colorful , epured on digi and very detailled on tradi
I do engraving too
Prompted by @SlCathy 's post showing a lovely engraving by Agnes Miller Parker, here's a Barn Owl from 1938. Really a master of her craft.
#owlishmonday @todbooklady
An albatross was thought to carry the souls of dead sailors, so it was bad luck to kill one. However, it is considered good luck if you see one. [Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.] #SuperstitionSat
"The banks of the river Styx where it enters the underworld. Engraving. Black and White. In the style of Gustave Dore. Landscape."
M. C. Escher
Dragon, 1952
Wood-engraving, on Japanese paper
#ImageOfTheDay
@timothysaccenti Ex: loved the album Age Of so I look into it’s promotional art and liner notes and see a 1565 French engravings by François Desprez as a credit so thru that I stumble upon Rabelais and the Tales of Pantagruel now I’m deep in medieval/enlightenment art from a 2018 electronic album
Time stands over the skeletal form of Death in this engraving by Aegidius II Sadeler. Bartholomeus Spranger has been spared but death has claimed his wife Christina. A putto reveals a skull. 1600 (From the free Printmaking in Prague exhibition at @britishmuseum) #mementomori
Tarsier. Antique engraving created mid-1700s by Jacques Henri E. De Sève for French naturalist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Wildlife art at Terence Kerr on Alamy:
https://t.co/jTomN0DTsI
This #WoodEngravingWednesday we present for wood engravings by the Russian-born French artist Ivan Lebedeff, from the 1929 Golden Cockerel Press printing of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev’s story 'The Abyss' with a translation by John Cournos. Learn more: https://t.co/tYMGyZF90K
@hevercastle Allegorical engraving of Elizabeth I as a female British warrior-queen. She is channeling St. George complete with a hydra-dragon representing Spain. The Latin text reads "Elizabeth queen of England & Hibernia (Scotland), etc." In the background is the English fleet
It's been suggested that 'Photismi De Lumine et Umbra' might be the most remarkable optical treatise of the sixteenth century outside the tradition of Alhazen, or even the best optical book of the Renaissance.
Maurolycus line engraving by M. Bovis after Polidoro da Caravaggio. https://t.co/jMWBESeJhF
Maurolycus concerns himself with light rays & their direction in the camera.
In the year he died, he published 'Photismi De Lumine Et Umbra'.
Portrait of Maurolycus is a line engraving by G. Guzzi after a portrait by Polidoro di Caravaggio. https://t.co/OoVWvwSTfW
Died #OnThisDay 9Aug1738 famous #French engraver, Pierre Drevet whose #engravings were mainly portraits of distinguished people. Among them is his engravings of Louis XIV, where he captured with precision the rich textures and materials in Hyacinthe Rigaud’s painting.
Ann found it difficult to select one book for #NationalBookLoversDay but decided on Maria Merian's 'Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam...', our copy publ. 1726, it features wonderful engravings of insects, plants, reptiles & amphibians.
@trickymindful Funny, at a glance it looks like the seal of the state of South Dakota. But i remember seeing that particular engraving on the seal somewhere in the post civil war archives
According to Pliny (H. N. XIV) οἰνόμελι or "wine-honey" was invented by Aristaeus, Greek rustic deity who was also the first beekeeper, son of the huntress Cyrene & the god Apollo
Aristaeus Inventor Mellis holding a beehive, 1565 engraving by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris
Santiago Laser Engraving gonna be starting tonight! Running the first program for Laser Engraved NFTs! If your interested in getting your NFT laser engraved on wood stay tooned for the final product tonight! @DegenToonz