#The portrait

[dyrewrites]

The Critic is now in charge of marketing.

Links to books:

Ebooks format only (itch.io)

Ebook and Print (for some)* (amazon)

What are they?

Well, they're all dark and uncomfortable, most are bloody, dreadful and more than a little gay...but for specifics;

Novella

*In Fog //queer horror romance An obsessive, bloody and violent tale heavy on questions of self and personhood.

Short Stories

Can't You See Me? //supernatural gothic horror First Person account of a ghost attempting to contact her family. Don't Look //supernatural body horror First Person account of a man dealing with an apartment that's not what he paid for. The Portrait //gothic historical horror A woman is terrorized by a portrait. *In the Marrow //gothic body horror A woman is haunted by the sound of crackling bones.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Strawberry Moon on SGI

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“Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.”

― Iain Pears, The Portrait

[alive on all channels]

[soracities]

Ilya kaminsky: "we sleep in a language until it comes to wake us with its strangeness", Kafka commended books that are like an axe for the frozen sea, Roland barthes was bored of deliberately composed or arranged photographs and sought the "punctum" (prick), the accidental or incidental element that throws you off in a photo... Tbc

Ctd... Francis bacon particularly loved a self portrait of Rembrandt's where his eyes look like bottomless holes and said that "non rational marks <in a painting> convey the mystery of the fact", the entire concept of "ostranenie" - is this what art is about?

i think if you can say anything of what art is "about", it maybe lies in the fact that the more you try to pin down its "aboutness" the further it recedes (like love, like God). when i did art in school the earliest lesson we were given was to draw something by focusing not on itself, but the negative space i.e. the area around the object that isn't the object. we drew the model for each class by drawing what the model wasn't: it wasn't so much about avoiding what i knew, but what i think i knew.

kafka, barthes, ostranenie...perhaps all form a facet of what art involves and leaves us with: it is an interruption (like beauty); its intrusion throws everything around it into new relief—do we know more or less than we did before? sometimes it is one, sometimes the other. regardless, we now know it differently. a sort of chink in the veil, if you will. an invitation, perhaps.

[aviel]

René Margritte - The Portrait (1935)

[dirtbagdefender]

[kialshuna]

I binged read this webtoon entitled "The Portrait" and I love it so much. My favorite is its story flow, where the first chapters tell a very interesting introduction of the story. I love how the succeeding chapters perfectly fit with the introduction until the epilogue. I love how the conflict is not stressful. I love how there's a direct plot, a balance between a plotless story and a plotty one. I love how most of the characters are good people, and all of those deserving people got their happy endings. ❤️ The characters are so lovable, and the subplot for the supporting characters is as interesting as the main plot. There's no boring scene nor a stressful one. The art is so beautiful, and the theme that revolves around the art community is captivating. I even appreciated paintings more than before. I love how the author depicts a story where an old, unmoving, single portrait would have a thousand stories of different people behind it.

This kind of story is not really my cup of tea, but loving the webtoon despite being an opposite of my usual preference, definitely proves how amazing it is! 🩷

[pterygoidwalk]

sometimes i wonder what my cat named me

[random-brushstrokes]

William P. Welsh - Burlesque Queen (1941)

[area420]

pattern recognition girl final moments

[dyrewrites]

Summer Sale

Do you like gothic horror? Queer characters? Body Horror? Disturbed stories of obsession, isolation and dread? Then might I suggest these short stories and novella…what I wrote…

Up for sale right now during itch.io's summer sale (yes, it says games, they're new at this and doing their best).

What's on sale?

Well, they're all dark and uncomfortable, most are bloody, dreadful and more than a little gay...but for specifics;

Novella

In Fog //queer horror romance An obsessive, bloody and violent tale heavy on questions of self and personhood.

Short Stories

Can't You See Me? //supernatural gothic horror First Person account of a ghost attempting to contact her family. Don't Look //supernatural body horror First Person account of a man dealing with an apartment that's not what he paid for. The Portrait //gothic historical horror A woman is terrorized by a portrait. In the Marrow //gothic body horror A woman is haunted by the sound of crackling bones.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[jagalart]

Pigeons!

Here's a collection of pet portraits I had a pleasure of painting for the great Keepsakesloft and Rey <3 Thank you both so much for this!

[pinkravat-art]

popped off with this one im afraid

[dennydreadful]

it really works! source: me