I ended up splattering blobs of watercolor and being really bored I turned them into direwolves.
Left to Right:
Grey Wind, Ghost
Nymeria, Lady
Shaggydog, Summer
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THE BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARES OF ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI
Artist Zdzislaw Beksinski (24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor. Beksiński executed his paintings and drawings either in what he called a ‘Baroque’ or a ‘Gothic’ manner. The first style is dominated by representation, with the best-known examples coming from his fantastic realism period when he painted disturbing images of a surrealistic, nightmarish environment. The second style is more abstract, being dominated by form, and is typified by Beksiński’s later paintings.
So much lust for the Folio Society edition of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. Illustrated by Peter Bailey
The Secret World of Arrietty(2010), dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
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books you should read : Gormenghast (esp. Titus Groan & Gormenghast) — Mervyn Peake
it’s about : the castle of Gormenghast, inhabited by a collection of unlikely people and ruled by the Groan family. There nothing ever changes ; everything happens according to the ritual. Until one day, two things occur. First, an heir to the castle is born : Titus, son of Lady Gertrude and Lord Sepulchrave. On that same day, a young man named Steerpike escapes from the kitchens and begins his conquest of the castle. Both of them will trouble Gormenghast with what it has never known before : revolt.
you should read it because : it’s wonderfully written, the characters are most extraordinary, it feels like a drawing come alive. Not to mention that Steerpike is the best anti-hero ever.“He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.”
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‘Le morte d’Arthur - the book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the round table’ by Sir Thomas Malory, Knt; illustrated by William Russell Flint. Published 1910-11 by Philip Lee Warner.
See the complete book here.
