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Dark, Shadowy Interiors
Some of these paintings serve as dark frames to draw attention to a scene outside a window. But every afternoon in winter there’s a period between full light and dark, where you haven’t quite turned the lights on yet. These paintings capture this mood.
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Illustrations With Castles In The Distance
Castles in the background of illustrations
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Writing Activity: Describe A Street At Night
A MIDLAND TWILIGHT The cloud-plumed afternoon has flown along the household street, Leaf-shadows flicker. Freshly strown, the sprays whir. Far and fleet, Hushed, furtive footsteps dodge and creep, and hunting voices call, “I spy,” and “One, two, three for you,” around the street’s still hall. The little winds of twilight blow. Upon the hop-scotch chaclk, […]
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The Colour Orange in Illustration
Beautiful examples of the colour orange
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Body Language by Diane Schoemperlen Short Story Analysis
Body Language is a short story by Canadian writer Diane Schoemperlen. You can find it collected in The Best American Short Stories 1998. The story comes ‘illustrated’ with anatomical drawings: of the head and larynx, the eyeball and nose cavity, the ribcage, musculature of the arm, a sperm, a brain. This story is an example […]
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Card Games In Illustration
Before TV and the internet people had card games.
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Fences, Gates and Walls in Art and Storytelling
Fences in art and illustration have various uses, some composition related, some symbolic.
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Yellow Backgrounds In Illustration
A collection of illustrations with yellow as background.
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Baking In Art And Illustration
Bakers and baking in art and illustration
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Fantasy Laboratories In Art And Illustration
Baddies conjuring potions up in labs and goodies coming up with solutions
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Cows and Cowboys In Art and Storytelling
A collection of art featuring cows, then some cows with cowboys, leading into some cowboys.
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Women And Girls Reading In Art And Illustration
Reading is a girl-coded activity. I haven’t done any deliberate gender curation here — paintings and illustrations of women and girls with books, letters and magazines are simply far more common. However, you will find far more men (fathers) reading newspapers.
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Carriages, Carts, Chariots and Coaches in Art and Illustration
From various angles, all through the ages
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Uplighting In Art And Illustration
Uplighting is when the main light source in a work of art is coming from below the subject. This lighting almost always lends a creepy or outright scary vibe. If you’ve ever shone a torch under your chin while on camp you’ll be well-aware of how different you look. Few (if any?) people are rendered more beautiful with this lighting…
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Numerous “Birds” Roosting In Trees In Art And Illustration
Some of these are not birds and are creepy.