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Eduard Hau, The Winter Garden from Interiors of the Small Hermitage, 1865, watercolor.

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You'd never know my studio is all grey and white by the way I take my selfies.

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Every social media problem would be solved if the SUBMIT or POST button also had a little button next to it that just says OR SHUT THE HELL UP FOR ONCE.

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So awkward to not be a crier. I’m out here like “wow that is so sad :|”

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Are thirst traps still a thing we do?

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It's 2005 and I'm 19 years old. Unemployed, failing out of college, no family support... I shaved my head and got a $1,000 speeding ticket I could never afford. Spent 4 days in the ICU recovering from a suicide attempt, then said to myself:

"Well, that was drastic. Let's try going to the other extreme. Let's do whatever it takes to be happy."

Now, I'm 38 years old. Self-employed and successful, own a house, have a loving husband, and I don't even recognize that teenage girl who was so scared to start her life.

How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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Learning to draw using Infinite Painter and a friend told me I should try drawing bugs instead of people. This wolf spider is bringing me peace.

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Here are all the bugs I met on my walk today.

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Cassius blue - the only bug I met on my walk today.

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Ugh me too

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"What's the coolest part of being hired to photograph for an award-winning aquarium?"

Getting to make my own lock screen photos.

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars

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I think I like blue-yellow color schemed landscapes, I think Twitter | Prints | Ko-Fi | Patreon

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“Shadow and light are the most stable and perfect tools of creation: they unite colors, shapes, and dimensions,” says Moldovan artist Sergiu Ciochină, adding that “shadows move us through diversity, enhancing our perception, while light fills us with the joy of discovery.” In saturated hues, he captures dappled sunlight as it filters through the trees and the rich tones of the golden hour as it casts deep bluish-purple shade onto the sides of houses.

Taking cues from the Impressionists, Ciochină focuses on the nuances of light and its ability to reveal outlines and forms. He works in thick, impasto oil paint on board, emphasizing the shapes of windows, doors, and stoops and transforming otherwise ordinary buildings into compositions glowing with the patterns of foliage, architectural angles, and the texture of brushstrokes. “The symbiosis I create between nature and architecture is intended to evoke a love for space,” he says.

on Sergiu Ciochină

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El juego del bosque (Detail), oil painting — Guillermo Lorca (Chilean, b.1984)

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La mer qu'on voit danser

(Photos created for the Florida Aquarium)