since the trains are on strike today, decided to spend the day painting and cooking.

(painting after Christian Mølsted's "Tordenskjold i Götheborgfjorden" (1891))

New big pendant for a driftwood and sea glass necklace

Seascape, by Harut Danielyan

Acrylics on canvas, 2022

Inspired by images of the 1914-1917 Shackleton antarctic expedition as well as the 2018 series the Terror.

edward little doodle

Does anyone know what painting this dress is printed with?

Unreasonably long ramble about the hair of the boys in LOTF

Thought about the boys at the end of chapter 12 and after and then for some reason started thinking about how nasty their hair must’ve been after spending multiple months on the island. It grew multiple inches throughout the book and they definitely never bothered to even attempt to finger comb it or smth, so they had like the most horribly tangled hair ever. And to top it off, the only way of washing themselves and their hair was with the sea water which is generally not good for taking care of your hair and can dry it out. But in the last few chapters I don’t think it really mentioned them going in the water that often anymore (correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t read it in a while) so I think instead of becoming dry their hair just became extremely greasy (ew). Also, they slept on like the ground so all the grass and dirt and bugs and stuff also got in there. And then more stuff also prob dropped into their hair from the trees. Their hair is so bad they’d have to spend multiple hours de-tangling it and washing it post-island. Anyways that’s enough rambling bye.

TLDR: The boys in LOTF probably ended up having the most dirty, greasy or dry, tangled, and possibly bug-infested hair by the end of the book. They’d suffer for multiple hours post-island taking care of it.

The amazing digital art of Igor Artyomenko

Naval Battle between the Spanish and Turks, Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667)

Back to the Arctic on labradorites, aurora borealis and a ship for @star-of-flame-eternal

A clipper, by Joe Duncan Gleason (1881-1959)

Sailor with the pearl earring (circa 1830?), Unknown

Abstract painting. Submarine. Naval battle. WWII.

Drasko in his uniform, and also a redraw of an old drawing kinda

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J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 (The National Gallery).

I’m starting to see the 1830s as the birth (berth?) of the modern museum ship industry. Notably: there was a public outcry in 1831 when HMS Victory was scheduled to be broken up, which led (eventually) to the ship being preserved; and in the United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem ���Old Ironsides” was published in 1830, leading to national support for the preservation of USS Constitution. I know that both Victory and Constitution had many inglorious years before their eventual state as museum ships, being used as training vessels and tenders etc.; but being spared from destruction in the 1830s when they were obsolete vessels is arguably what saved them.

Was it Romanticism, and opposition to the increasingly industrial world? Steam power was commercially viable in the 1810s, and by the 1820s it was widespread. The Battle of Navarino in 1827 is usually cited as the last major action under sail, but steam-powered ships were seeing military use before that (and I don’t just mean experimental craft). The steamship Diana saw action in the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824. In any event, 1830s people had to be aware that they were seeing the end of the Age of Sail, and that the last remaining battleships from that era were going to become increasingly scarce.