Chess Amadé

"Her eyes look sharp and steady/Into the empty parts of me/But still my heart is heavy/With the hate of some other man's beliefs/Always a well dressed fraud/Who wouldn't spare the rod/Never for me/Screaming the name of a foreigner's God/Screaming the name of a foreigner's God/Screaming the name of a foreigner's God/The purest expression of grief"

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Three bookmarks requested by a friend long ago. I didn't find them particularly good, but I thought the techniques used to create them were interesting including the gradient washes and the blend of watercolour and gouache.

Paper ~ Arches 100% cotton/ 300 GSM

Brush ~ Escoda Optimo liner/ Rosemary & Co detail brushes / Silver Black Velvet rounds/ Da Vinci Petit Gris Pur mop

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎, Two bats flying, c. 1830-50

Duality is one of the things that makes Messmer such a complex, deep, and fascinating character. The feared demigod driven by righteous wrath, burning cities to ash to avenge his goddess mother’s people...and the broken being hidden beneath, a scorned son consumed by sorrow and by the serpent he carries within.

"Good Hunter... May you always remember: Even during the most violent, manic nights, one may find beauty all the same."

for broodlordrush on artfight

“It’s not that wet” 

JAR (Joel Arthur Rosenthal) sheep head hair clip