Forespoken. A rabbit man and a tortoise man meet in the dark woods. It seems they are practicing plastromancy, the art of divining what will be from the shell of a turtle, also called an oracle bone. Even though Tortoise Man helps him by holding the ink, Rabbit Man looks dejected, perhaps because he just realized that "slow and steady wins the race". The shell also is written with other familiar morals such as: It is useless to try to outwit time. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. What is bred in the bone will never out the flesh, and others. https://www.julieschuler.com/workszoom/3472078#/

Forespoken. Original 8" x 10" acrylic painting on thick, acid-free paper. A rabbit man and a tortoise man meet in the dark woods. It seems they are practicing plastromancy, the art of divining what will be from the shell of a turtle, also called an oracle bone. Even though Tortoise Man helps him by holding the ink, Rabbit Man looks dejected, perhaps because he just realized that "slow and steady wins the race". The shell also is written with other familiar morals such as: It is useless to try to outwit time. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. What is bred in the bone will never out the flesh, and others. https://www.etsy.com/listing/184983096

A rabbit man and a tortoise man meet in the dark woods. It seems they are practicing plastromancy, the art of divining what will be from the shell of a turtle, also called an oracle bone. Even though Tortoise Man helps him by holding the ink, Rabbit Man looks dejected, perhaps because he just realized that "slow and steady wins the race". The shell also is written with other familiar morals such as: It is useless to try to outwit time. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. What is bred in the bone will never out the flesh, and others. https://www.julieschuler.com/workszoom/3472078#/

The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) is a piece of Roman graffiti scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome. It may be the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus, and if so is the earliest known pictorial representation of the Crucifixion. It is hard to date but has been estimated to have been made c. 200. The image seems to show a young man worshipping a crucified, donkey-headed figure. The Greek inscription reads something like "Alexamenos worships [his] God." The graffito was apparently meant to mock a Christian named Alexamenos. I was interested in remaking this graffito as a painting because of it's surreal, fairy-tale like qualities, and for it's historical importance as the first Crucifixion image. Acrylic on prepared paper 8" x 10". By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler. Painting does not contain the black bars nor the "My Good Babushka" watermark included here for formatting and security purposes. Free shipping, insured, within the United States.