Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927-2004) — The Lost Middle [oil, hardboard, 1982]
A - Aristolochia clematitis L. - Aristolochia clematite (Aristolochiaceae)
William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
I can never reblog that one post that's like "what fictional food did you desperately want to eat as a child " bc I had this dinosaur book as a kid and in the book there was this illustration of a T. Rex eviscerating a Triceratops and feasting on its remains and it looked like it was having such a good time with the triceratops carcass that I would have traded anything to be that T. Rex. And I can't just add that to a random stranger's post
I see how it is you can all post about cannibalism and blood drinking and it's cool it's normal it's ENCOURAGED even but I say I wanted to indulge in the absolute carnage of felling a 26,000 lb horned beast with my hands and then feasting upon the spoils of my victory as a child and suddenly IM the weird one
Everyone says they want a weirdgirl who is hot and strange and off-putting and then she says she's harboring a secret desire to be a Mesozoic superpredator from the late cretaceous and you all switch up REALLL fast
As soon as it got warmer and flowers started popping up I had an urge to draw fairies! I'm so happy when the spring comes you have no idea 🌼🌸💚
humans love dressing up so much and get there simply aren’t enough occasions that call for dressing up in unique clothing in contemporary western society. yet another tragic loss to the sensorium
That's why people have raves and goth nights and stuff
i was actually thinking of georgian chokhas when i made this post but you’re right this would kill it at a goth night
omg imagine being born and you are on a spaceship and everyone aboard is sooo so mad at you just because you burst out of some guy's chest to be born. like um sorry i've not been alive before i didn't even know that's not allowed please be nice to me um the spaceship floor is cold is no one going to knit me some little booties i am calling child protective services
the best part of each x-files episode is waiting for the end to see who's gonna do the sign off report cause when it's scully it's usually something like "once again, despite my partner's opinion to the contrary, i cannot confidently say that there is any scientific basis to the theory that alien ghost blood was responsible for the disappearance of the crack in the liberty bell" meanwhile if it's mulder we get gems like "are we alone in the universe? what does it truly mean to be alone? did bigfoot fuck the speaker of the house? as always i am left with more questions than answers and don't know who to trust and i think scully changed her shampoo and..."
The only tiktok trend that matters is people filming those easter chickens and then going “who did ____ without permission?” and one of the chickens is so fucked up and its obvious who the answer is and the intro to You Gotta Move by Mississippi Fred McDowell is blasting
LEAVE THESE ANIMALS ALONE!!!
I made a little wooly bear caterpillar. I was inspired by The Closet Historian's moth brooch video to learn turkey stitch, and I tried brushing it with a wire brush, which really fluffed it up a lot more. I had to trim it a little bit more after the brushing.
All the materials were from my stash, and I didn't time it but it took quite a few hours. I wish I'd used a thinner fabric because this felted coat wool was a bit tough to sew through, and didn't want to bend into a rounded caterpillar shape.
I'm quite happy with it, it turned out so cute! It's a bit bigger than a real one.
#op would you consider making a tutorial? #or telling me what fiber you used?
It's just regular 6 strand cotton embroidery floss! I used the full 6 strands, since for this stitch you want it to be really well filled in.
If I make another one I'll document it more thoroughly, but I did get a few more pictures than what I put in the first image. (Sorry for making you scroll up and down a lot if you're trying to follow this in oder! I'll hopefully make a blog post someday, though I am very very behind on blogspot...) I started by tracing my pin backing out on a scrap of wool and drawing a long oval shape around it with 3 sections.
Then I filled it all in with turkey stitch, which is pretty easy. I looked at the diagrams in an old needlework book I have, but there are plenty of written and video tutorials out there on the internet. It turns out it's best to go around the outside first and then fill it in, or else your edges turn out kinda wonky.
I cut the loops, trimmed it a lot, and brushed it very thoroughly with a cheap little wire brush I got at the hardware store. You've got to part the threads and do it section by section to really get at them and separate all the fibres. After that I had to trim it a bit more.
I cut the edge down to about 4mm, and clipped the corners out as indicated by the dashed lines here, but didn't get a picture of that step.
Even with all that clipped away it was really hard forcing the ends into shape, and I went over the whole thing with whipstitches 3 times. I wish I'd used a thinner fabric (but still one that's a bit rough and doesn't fray easily) and I also wish I'd used black fabric, even though barely any of the beige shows through anywhere.
I cut out a tiny strip of thin black leather in the same shape as the exposed belly portion, and carefully marked and cut little slits in it to put the 2 raised bits of the pin back through. Making sure the leather bit would be positioned correctly, I sewed on the pin back (Having marked the location with pins, since pencil doesn't really work on something so small and lumpy).
Then I sewed on a pair of little glass beads, and put the pin back through the 2 slits in the leather and whipstitched it down.
Voila! A precious baby!