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Polar night

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Amlash, Gilan Province, Iran.

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fabulous creature?

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William Louis Sonntag - "Night in the Forest" (1859)

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captain Kennit from ship of magic, love this crazy bastard :)

I wanna make a comic of the first couple of chapters of the ship of magic for some comic practice, so I've been working on drawing some characters until I get the hang of them!

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some days I’ll be sad and I’ll think of your Shireen art and think… damn. that shit is good I want it ingrained into my flesh

thank you!! that piece was done pretty differently compared to my normal process. I had to make a couple brushes and work with layer masks in a way I don’t normally but I still think it turned out nicely

here she is healthy. none of that ever happened she’s fine

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ASOIAF according to Korean translation; Bran II

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Belfort, France, 2e Avril 2025

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Wilderness from my new book Faraway Dreaming. 🌱🌲 Available on Kickstarter until 24 June, 2025!

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Sarmatian Diadem, 1st century AD, Scythian Culture,

Found at the Khokhlach kurgan burial mount, Novocherkassk, Russia,

The diadem consists of three hinged parts, the whole surface inlaid with garnet and glass. In the center is an amethyst bust of a woman wearing a tunic and crowned with a gold wreath inlaid with almandine.

The upper edge of the diadem is decorated with a figurative frieze representing a ritual scene of sacred animals processing towards the Tree of Life. The lower edge is decorated with pendants bearing rosettes rimmed with gold beads, pearls and small plaques.

This diadem is a typical example of the eclectic art which combed both Classical features and elements of Sarmatian art. It was intended for ritual use and was associated with the cult of fertility.

Gold, amethyst quartz, almandines, garnets, turquoise, coral, glass, pearls, resinous mass.

H. 15 cm.; L. 61 cm.

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 

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the red woman had won her, heart and soul

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Oh how I yearn for a simpler time, when a young man would simply give his paramour an intricately crafted wooden spoon to show his affection and ability to provide for their future family, especially if they ever ran out of spoons

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springtime in the castle gardens