sinemac.bsky.social
Art fan
Likes Museums and Galleries
Amateur dabbler in prints
Fond of very old rocks in circles
"Knows her way around a chocolate cake"
Reader of books
Total sport-free zone
XX
125 posts
50 followers
65 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Yes, that's what it looks like to me too.
comment in response to
post
Top pic: me how I think I look in the morning when I've got ready
Bottom pic: how I actually look
comment in response to
post
Unfortunately I can't see a credit for the author of the article on the website, which is unusual.
comment in response to
post
www.demorgan.org.uk/which-snark-...
comment in response to
post
The buoy could almost be a sunset.
🙂
comment in response to
post
Are we talking Mariana trench here?
comment in response to
post
The responses of your followers to the the apparatus on the right is most illuminating. I feel right at home!
comment in response to
post
Hopefully with far fewer longueurs than Mr P.
(The are only so many pages of descriptions of the grey scrubbers scrubbing a human being can take 😉)
Anyway, my order is already in for Waterblack.
comment in response to
post
Although Izal gives it a run for its money ...
comment in response to
post
Apropos of a post above, at a family event at new year, we all agreed that the most traumatic thing about school dinners was tapioca pudding - aka frogspawn.
comment in response to
post
Early years introduction to semi-permanent purple ink.
Those were the days!
comment in response to
post
Attempts by family (7 and 11, bless 'em) up north (not enough snow down south)
comment in response to
post
The important thing is that they were there, however ephemeral they may be. ☃️❤️
comment in response to
post
One of your best.
comment in response to
post
I love it, but it would probably cost £2.5m a year to run and maintain!
Would make a nice little museum tho' ...
*ponders outrageous fundraising options*
comment in response to
post
An homage for the reruns of Watching on RewindTV!
comment in response to
post
Forgot the pic!
comment in response to
post
Is someone at New Pictures is a Pre-Raph fan?
There's a Rossetti Annunciation in the same room in Ep1, about 24mins in.
Other paintings too.
Possibly a horizontally-flipped El Greco of St Peter in Anton Lesser's bedroom?
comment in response to
post
Each drawing has a unique texture and decorative quality achieved through her varied mark making and media.
comment in response to
post
They are unlike her other drawings which are usually preparatory sketches for an oil painting.
She purchased ‘cakes’ (dry pellets) of gold pigment from her colourman Charles Roberson and ground them down to a powder which she formed into a guache paint and a hard crayon.
comment in response to
post
Was that directed at me? I thought it was clear!
Google is your friend re CoL.
Also try reclaimec1.wordpress.com
comment in response to
post
I would refer the honourable gentleman to the City of London Council for a lesson on 'interesting' local democracy.
(Obviously I could not recommend the ReclaimEC1 website ...)
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
Mainline to Hammersmith & City/Circle line? Take a food parcel, trekking poles, two gallons of water, a compass, a multi-tool, and a Sherpa.
comment in response to
post
youtu.be/ibI9qNI_ACo?...
comment in response to
post
Eats shoots and leaves?
comment in response to
post
I've been travelling on the West Coast line a fair bit recently. This isn't just about speed, but about capacity. The trains are always full.
comment in response to
post
Still today's weather!
(The Storm Spirits, Evelyn De Morgan)
comment in response to
post
Did gallons used to mean something else in the olden days?
Because if not, that's nearly 40 pints of alcohol, with a bit of tea, sugar, and fruit juice thrown in. 😱😵💫🤯