Academia-wannabe - I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

'The Lady of the Lake' by Walter Scott (published in 1810)

'Secrets of the Stars' by Inez N. McFee (published in 1922)

sketchbook page o wirts!

ー remains of spring

some people were asking for actual advice and i can never pass up an opportunity to procrastinate so here’s just a couple of things i always need to remind myself of…now back to my paper :(

Over the Garden Wall

Led by the mist by the milk-light of moon, all that was lost is revealed. Our long bygone burdens, mere echoes of the spring, but where shall we go, and where shall we end? If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?

“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.

the detailing of royal jewels in portraits

Portrait of Maria Fyodorovna - Ivan Kramskoi (1880)

Portrait of Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) - Konstantin Makovsky

Janet Campbell - Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Portrait of Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry - Alexandre Jean Dubois-Drahonet (1800-1865)

Queen Henrietta Maria - Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1637)

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies - Valentín Carderera y Solano (1831)

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia - A. Maliukov (1836)

Maria Anna of Bavaria - Joseph Karl Stiele (1842)

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies - Vicente López Portaña (1830)