Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930) "The Green Gown"

I love how in pentiment you can have the most vile, nasty, rude squabble with someone, and then the conversation ends with “May the lord bless you and protect you, Andreas maler” but you know they’re hoping an anvil falls out of an eighteenth story window and squishes you flat like in loony tunes

The Pond at Montgeron (1876) by Claude Monet

GERRI KELLMAN!!!!1!

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

"Art is illusion, storytelling, but in their most sublime form, these images form a path to truth." -- Father Piero

I have yet to finish this game, but the storytelling absolutely captivates me. I think it also endears to me that we are taken along this journey through the lens of an artist, a consequential journey that spans decades. A sort of legacy seen through the vibrant colors of the medieval world.

Special thanks to @emp-roar who dragged me along for the ride as I translate the german contents directly for her (even when I do not need to hahaha)

found more dragon age sketches from 2019

Eeman Masood (b.1998) - Rejoicing. 2023. Gouache, gold ink and 24 karat gold leaf on arches paper.

conclave the book is like so specifically written too like ... its so crazy. bellini's line about "families having 10 children because mama and papa didn't know any better" & "standing for everything tedesco does not" is like only a few pages apart from the reveal of tedesco's backstory being that he's the youngest of 12 kids and grew up destitutely poor from that (& still eats like he's terrified someone might steal his food). like ohh... tedesco is a product of his environment and the paradigm of the traditional values failing people & still trying to force those values on people despite knowing the firsthand experience of the way it sucks. crab in a bucket style.