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I HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE EDITS ON CANVA I AM UNSTOPPABLE
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg š
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this š„¹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day šš) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
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Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron was released in theaters on May 24th, 2002 across the United States

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oobh i got plany off bobbin thread
hey do you mind grabbing joseph's coat for him? yeah its the red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue one
baby black vulture (and her parents) I found living in a collapsed house last summer
a thing for mermay i guess
happy pride to these two whalers i guess

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Infodump about my Moby Dick theory about Queequeg and how it all ties back to the Essex
I often see Queequeg depicted as vaguely MÄori (which Iām sure he does share some aspects as heās kind of a grab bag of polynesian traits) but Iāve come to believe that a lot more of the textual and historical evidence points to him being from somewhere in French Polynesia, specifically the Marquesas Islands and/or the Society Islands (which includes Tahiti).
One of the most telling points for me is how his tattoos are described. The MÄori TÄ Moko lends itself to intricate geometric swirling/spiral/rounded imagery where Queequegās tattoos, in contrast, are described as āblack squaresā on both his face and body with the book stating:
āBut at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks.ā
āAs I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares.ā
While this description gives way to more intricate swirling patterns on his arms and legs in later chapters, overall the descriptions of his tattoo align far more with the striking and geometric Marquesan style, where large square/rectangle patches are filled in with black on both the body and the face (especially for men).
See here:
There are some other aspects of his description that make me lean more towards him being Marquesan as well, such as his hair style (similar to old depictions of people indigenous to the Marqueses), his filed teeth (while this is more of practice seen with Indonesian people groups, both Hawaii and the Marquesas practice a sort of tooth modification called ablation) as well as Yojo and his woodcarving skills, specifically how the designs reflect his tattoos (ornamental, figurine, and tiki carving with shared tattooed motifs are another thing the Marquesas are known for).
some carving examples:
Besides the textual evidence I also believe there to be plenty of historical evidence for this connection too.
Firstly (and honestly least importantly) the Marquesas and Society Islands were a frequent stop for whaling voyages in the 19th century.
Secondly, Melville himself actually spent some time on the Marquesas islands, specifically Nuku Hiva (anywhere between 3 weeks to a couple of months though his book claims it was 4 months). During that time he stayed with the native population and his experience led to the writing of his first novel āTypeeā (his most successful novel in his lifetime) which was part adventure fiction, part memoir, and part proto-ethnography where he takes a far more empathetic approach to his interactions with the native Marquesans than what would be expected of his time (donāt get me wrong it still has its issues, but it really couldāve been worse. heās a little confused but heās got the spirit). What Melville lacked in his own experiences and understandings he made up for with (uncredited yet accurate) research to fill in the gaps (like the travelogues of Langsdorff). After his time on the Marquesas he eventually made his way to Tahiti (where he then participated in a mutiny and was imprisoned) which led to his follow-up novel āOmoo.ā He (at least in the book) had less interactions with the indigenous Tahitians there though and spoke of the oppression of their cultural practices such as tattooing. After that he escaped and made it to the island of MoŹ»orea and eventually joined yet another whaling ship to make it to Hawaii (somewhere either on Tahiti or Moāorea he also spent about a month as a beach comber). All to say, he had some more intimate knowledge of that area of the world and the people that lived there, thus it makes more sense that heād write what he knew rather than butcher a description from a secondary source (thereās an argument on the wikipedia page that Queequeg is based on the MÄori Chief Te PÄhi Kupe because of an encounter he had with a book in 1850 and while there may be some inspiration there character-wise, I just donāt think the descriptions line up). Again I lean more towards Marquesan influence since thatās where Melville (allegedly) spent the most time, but thereās likely a degree of overlap. All to say, I think Melville was more likely to write what he knew and what heād seen.
Finally, and I think the biggest reason I even bring all this up, is that a good deal of Moby Dick goes back to the Essex. For those who may not know the tragedy of the Essex is essentially the true story Moby Dick was based on, in which a whaling vessel gets attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November of 1820. Unlike Moby Dick though, the Essex had a good deal of survivors (3 whale boats full). Stuck in the middle of the sea, the survivors had to make a decision, they could either go towards the Marquesas Islands (about 1,200 miles west), go towards the Society Islands (about 2000 miles west), or turn east back towards South America (about 2000 nautical miles east). Despite the relative nearness of the Polynesian islands, the survivors of the Essex ended up heading towards South America because theyād heard tale of cannibalism on the Marquesas and other Society Islands. As a result most of them died and, ironically, resorted to cannibalism.
The story of the Essex is something Melville was obviously aware of and it deeply affected him. Pair that with his own experiences on the Marquesas and Society Islands, it all points to this idea that your prejudices will get you killed. The survivors of the Essex were, in the end, no more ācivilizedā than the natives they avoided and they had taken the chance with the unforgiving ocean rather than take a chance on the idea that their prejudices might be unfounded (both the Marquesas and the Society Islands were friendly towards mariners at that time).
Melville speculated on their decisions, writing: "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might, in all human probability, have been avoided had they immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti, from which they were not very distant at the time. But they dreaded cannibals.ā
I think it is anything but a coincidence that itās ultimately Queequeg who indirectly saves Ishmaelās life. He is the epitome of every terrifying stereotype of Polynesia made human and made savior. Thereās a lot more you could symbolically unpack there and throughout the novel in general (itās the kind of book where everything means everything), but I digress. I know Iām probably not the first person to make these connections but I just needed to get it out and infodump or I wouldāve exploded. Ultimately Queequeg is still, in many ways, a stereotype, but I think heās a lot more nuanced than people think. Anywaysssss, thanks for reading this long ass post
(edited to add more details about Melvilleās history, the Essex, and the influence of the Society Islands as well)
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š§”Sweet mother, I cannot weaveā¦š§” My full drawing of Anglo-Saxon era lesbians for We've Always Been Here artbook along with a look at the progress. (Digital sketch & pencil drawing)
Shout out to all the #loomheads who are liking this piece. I tried very hard in my research to make it a decent depiction so these tags both make me laugh & very pleased!

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A series of ceramic sculptures inspired by art history. (tallest approximately 4")
exploring themes of what art is, what it means, and who makes it.
Gentiles/non-Jews of Tumblr, how well did you do in the quiz on Judaism 101 linked below?
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This is the quiz and I did not come up with it, credit goes to @iswearbyalltheflowers on this post.
Absolutely no judgment, Iām genuinely really curious and I figured more people would answer anonymously here than on the original post.