#light and shade

[zegalba]

Paul Cocksedge: Light and Shade (2021)

[itsstreetlove]

Sunshine and Shadows

Gun Quarter ~ Birmingham

2023

[shy-girl04]

Photography by Esperanza Manzanera Velmock

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall

If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever
closed your legs to someone you loved opened
them for someone you didn’t moved against
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid
good money for a bad haircut backed away
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled
into the back seat for lack of a tampon
if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up
to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing &
no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

By Kim Addonizio

[salchat]

Last night's life group, with the lovely Hannah modelling. I used my oil pastels and got very messy. I started with broad strokes of shadow and light and did no lines at all until I really needed them. It was very interesting.

Two minutes:

Five minutes:

Fifteen minutes:

Twenty minutes:

[scrapbuuk]

Danau Kota - Kuala Lumpur.

[incorrect-custom-followers]

[richs-pics]

River Aire, Dowley Gap

[flamencapolaca]

George Mayer, 2017

[ifyoucankeepyourhead]

Early morning mist #?

[instafameless]

@mariananolasco

[slowdeepandfuckinghard]

[shy-girl04]

Excerpt from...

Invitation

Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy

and very important day....

...it is a serious thing

just to be alive

on this fresh morning

in this broken world.

Mary Oliver

[salchat]

I like this lady who's standing on my little easel. She's far from perfect, but I think she shows how lines really are overrated. I started with the shadows and then used some white and then did a few lines where the hard edges were. I really like the shape of the pose and some of the bits where light and shade meet.

I used these, by the way, on their sides. The squared edges for the lines and the flat sides for the shadows and lights:

They're broken off bits of Conté hard pastel.

[scrapbuuk]

Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

[tuituipupu]

I saw your tags on that Aespa song and you are so right. Like you can do switch-ups and have very different moods in a song but there still needs to be coherence and a return to something familiar in a song for it to work. I don't know who wrote Unicorn but they clearly don't get that. It's also not me not being used to switch-ups like that because I am a pretty big kpop fan and I listen to proggy bands lol. Like Nature's Some is an excellent enjoyable example too!

aah thank u !! i'm glad u agree also ~ ♡

yes you're so right - a return to the familiar is necessary for it to work! or at least some string of coherence tying the different sections together...

yeah those writers defo don't get that. it's like they thought of the tiktok catchy part in the centre so it could trend easy with a dance and then thought: "oh crap we have to write other stuff around it too 💀 ok let's just do any shit for ✨ SHOCK FACTOR ✨."

also yay fellow kpop fan 🫰✨

oh i'd never heard 'some' though i listen to some of nature's newer songs - totally get what you mean now i've heard it, it's a bop and still retains a coherent quality ⭐ i'm adding it to my playlist, thank you <33

in kpop it's certainly a trend recently to have so many switch-ups but there is an art to getting it just right. i guess girls' generation 'i got a boy' was the catalyst back in the day... but nmixx nowadays are playing into similar song structures... (e.g 'dice' by nmixx)