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Her name is Alma. She's my little girl.

Last night, she went to bed crying from hunger again. She whispered, “Daddy, I’m hungry…” And I had nothing to give her. Just silence. Just pain.

My name is Fayez, a father of three children, and we live in Gaza.

We are living under siege and starvation. The occupation blocks food and aid from reaching us. There’s no access to clean water, no electricity, and now we are facing a real famine. People especially children are dying from hunger.

I was injured in the war. But what hurts more is watching my children slowly waste away, while the world turns its face away.

💔 This is not just a message it's a desperate cry for help. From Gaza… to any human heart that still beats with compassion.

We don’t ask for luxury. We beg for basic survival: A meal. Clean water. A chance to live.

🙏 Please if you can donate. And if you can’t, share this message. Let someone, somewhere, hear us. Before it’s too late.

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Art by Priya Kakati

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bad guy 

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✦ Evening Glow & Morning Shade ✦

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Marc Davis

One of Disney's Nine Old Men. Image sourced from Andreas Dejas' blog. You can find more sketches of his and plenty others there.

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Nikolai Chiryatev

"Nikolai was born on 5 March, 1985, in Yugorsk, Siberia. He graduated from the Yugorsk Institute of Fine Arts in 2005 and from 2005 to 2011 he attended the graphic faculty of the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

During his study and after graduation he actively participated in various competitions and contests, as well as in group and solo exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Today Nikolai Chiryatev`s artworks are exhibited in The Russian Academy of Arts Museum, The Kirishi Museum of History and Local Lore and A.S. Pushkin Museum-reserve. They`ve also been included into numerous private collections in Russia, the USA, China, South Korea, Poland, Italy and CIS countries."

Whilst looking in my old files I found the paintings of Nikolai Chiryatev. Their paintings feel like the cold touch of smooth concrete and smoky winter seasoning the air. The orange lit skies, painted by old sodium lamps bring me back to those nights of watching the cieling wall reflect the same orange glow from outside. 

Please give the artists' exhibition article a further read if you want a wordier analysis of their work.

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colors of the sky.

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Art by 土豆LCZ

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Vasily Vatagin

 Hello, this is my first post on this blog. The aim of this blog is entirely for myself, friends, and strangers who need inspiration. I find so many artists that I can barely keep track of them all so I decided to try and compile whatever I find (sourced) and have an archive online I can easily access.

Found on Andreas Deja's blog. Reposted for my own archival purposes. Scientific illustrator Vasily Vatagin and his illustrations for The Jungle Book.

Vatagin's lines are so delicious and worth studying (note to self)

Here is an excerpt Deja found on the background of this book:

"Vatagin illustrated a great number of children’s books by Ernest Thompson Seton, Jack London, Vitaly Bianki and others, thus becoming a real live classic of Soviet book illustration. But it was Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” that brought him fame and popularity. Vatagin started his work at the book in 1922 and continued it up to the 1950s. He created an enormous number of illustrations, about 200 in all, and returned to them many times. A book which came out in 1922 included about 100 illustrations. The 1934 edition of the book featured three to four small drawings on each spread, which show the plot development. In the 1965 edition there were fewer but more developed, expressive and finished illustrations. Vatagin made the drawings in black-and-white, with ink and pencil, in the auto-lithography technique. The wildlife here is full of danger, and the combination of black and white conveys the feeling of tension in the jungle (“Maughli Learned to Jump from Branch to Branch”, “The Herd was Already Unable to Stop”, “Hathi Stepped Forward — It Was Clear That He is the Master of the Jungle”). The artist also pays great attention to the details of Indian life. In all, there have been 12 editions of the book with the artist’s illustrations, and readers have loved his drawings just as they loved Kipling's tales."