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Cheese Map by Jennifer Davick US Dairy Export Council to support the Think USA Dairy campaign

As with fellow Danish artists Carl Vilhelm Holsøe and Vilhelm Hammershøi, Broge painted simple domestic interior scenes. Such scenes, like this work, became increasingly popular among Danish painters as the country became more industrial, with implications of refuge as one partakes in peaceful normal activities in the home.

Herb and flower teas. © Brent Parker Jones

Naked Tree made from a mold of a painted tree with dark beer, prunes, and beechwood cream. http://bit.ly/1MDfcKd

In search of some Autumn inspiration? Up now on theartofplating.com is this beautiful recipe that brings the flavors of squash and pear together from none other than creative genius, chef Daniel Humm. http://bit.ly/1PqsCfX

Whenever I’m stuck in a rut I draw these little blob heads. #sketchbook #faces #portait #portrait of no one #blob

Painted when the young Forbes was a student at the South Kensington Art Schools, of which she wrote; ’…Most of my companions were beyond me in age and development. But the Museum was a treasure house of inexhaustible delight and although my artistic taste has passed through many phases since those days, I find that many things which drew me most strongly then are potent to move me still…”

“The worst thing is that I am so fed up with these so-called Parisian subjects, these little women (petites femmes), that I can no longer bear to see without thinking of all the wretched painting, superficial and cute, that one has to do with them. The models look all the same to me; I can achieve neither veracity or character when I paint them; their poses, always the same, annoy me, and that false prettyish elegance drives me insane.”

Laing’s paintings are almost without exception bright and bathed in sunlight and she delighted in painting interior scenes. Here, musical instruments are the focus as the musicians have finished their rehearsal and are taking a break.

Source: LAC

Dementor second part of Christmas gift for my cousin, this one is for The Prisoner of Azkaban :)

Drawing HP characters feels like drawing friends ♥

Angelina would not have died like Cedric because she would have punched Wormtail in the face and Voldemort would have to crawl his baby self back to Albania, I think.