#Otter cub #drawing made with coloured pencils.
This is a saved cub from Somerset that was taken to UK Wild Otter Trust (UKWOT ) for rehabilitation in 2025. UKWOT gave me the permission to draw him so here it is!
Title: Little Hugie
Size A5
If you would also like to support UKWOT, then please donate to them: https://ukwildottertrust.org/donate/
Would you do that meme with an artistic semi| abstract photo of a woman vs one of a full portrait from your Lidl catalogue because there's more details, colours?
There has been a huge resurgence of people deeming art>beauty, accuracy as a criteria, common since modern art appeared on the art scene, but is worrying as an absolute and a society level of art, media and global literacy.
#art #artdiscussion #modernart #abstract #abstractart #realism #degenerateart #arttaste #creation
Just like digital art is not easier than traditional art (I find it the other way round for instance). Would you say writing a book on word and not by hand is cheating? Bfr. If technical, frame by frame, apparent complexity was the only goal of art, we would have stopped long ago... Being realistic stopped being the goal long ago, if it were ever the sole goal (spoiler alert: no)
This is a commissioned watercolor painting I finished last week. It is a birthday present to celebrate the dog's second birthday that is coming up in May. The dog's name is ZhuangZhuang.
I also added bee wings to the picture as requested.
Watercolors on cotton paper
Size A5
Made in 2025
Check out my other commissioned artworks: https://www.iseriksonartist.com/commissions
"Portrait of Dolores Hoyos," Hermenegildo Bustos, 1884.
Mexican artist José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández (1832-1907) was known mostly for his portraits, but also did a number of religious paintings and still lifes.
He saw a lot of turbulence in his early life, including a cholera epidemic and the founding of the Mexican nation. At various times he worked as a tinsmith, tailor, carpenter, and mason, and kept an orchard. He had many interests in thing like history and astronomy, and art. He had a little formal art training but seems to have been largely self-educated, painting portraits of the members of prominent families in his area. He even did a portrait of Benito Juarez, now lost. (Check your attic!) And he always modestly indicated himself as "amateur painter" when signing his work.
After his death and the Mexican Revolution, his work was reassessed as a native son of Mexico, and received greater notice and acclaim. This portrait of a well-to-do young lady is probably his most popular work.
From the Museo Blaisten, Ciudad de Mexico.
#Art #MexicanArt #HermenegildoBustos #Realism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday.
"Rum Row," Frederick Judd Waugh, 1922.
This is a fairly off-the-beaten-track painting for Waugh (1861-1940), who was known mostly as a marine painter. His seascapes are still admired today.
The son of portraitist Samuel Waugh, he had the best education and lives mostly abroad, painting seascapes. He returned to the US in 1908 where he went from New Jersey to Maine to Provincetown, MA. He also did illustration work for periodicals, and was hired by the Navy to design camouflage for ships.
Most interestingly, he published a number of fairy tales with American settings. He was deeply interested in folklore and the supernatural, and sought to create a New World fairy tradition for young readers.
But today we have some lovely irises in empty old rum bottles. These probably were considered trash in his day....now they're valued collectibles!
Happy Flower Friday!
Reach out to me if anything in this assortment interests you & you'd like to inquire about it 
All're different sizes & all're affordable
new art
'Vision in the Forest'
made by Jo aka Aphisan
available, msg me if interested
"Basket of Roses," Henri Biva, 1891.
Biva (1848-1929) was a Realist/Naturalist painter of landscapes and the occasional still life. His work is recognizable for a degree of realism and attention to detail that prefigures the photorealism that would rise in the late 20th century.
I once showed one of his landscapes to a friend, who gazed at it for ages, then said, "You can almost HEAR that painting," as in it was easy to imagine the calls of birds and buzzing of insects. It was as if one could step through the frame into a lovely, but realistic, scene.
His attention to detail, his skill as a colorist, and his ability to depict natural light and make it LOOK natural on the canvas, are remarkable to me. He is scandalously overlooked and deserves greater attention....a lot of his work may not look like much at a glance (views of meadows or wooded glades or the shore of a pond or creek) but reward your attention with their amazing detail and realism. Go look him up.
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
Reality is a simulation of the truth.
#SciFi #sciencefiction #glitch #glichart #vid #surreal #alteredreality #realism #cyberpunk #cyberpunkart #futurism
‘Beckett Briefs,’ with F. Murray Abraham, streams in the nick of time. https://www.byteseu.com/834194/ #Abraham #actor #beckett #Entertainment #EssentialQuestion #F.MurrayAbraham #IrishRep #JamesJoyce #krapp #LastTape #man #realism #reason #ShortPlay #time #YoungSelf
And check it out, there are little squirrels hanging out within the tree. If anyone wants to add some tropical flavor to their interior, please let me know, it is available & for a great deal too. 
Check out the detail shots below
Local artist Sathit did this one, he is a real master of realism and painting lifelike scenes, this one is done with oil paint on canvas
If anyone out there would like to invite this beautiful scene into their home, please let me know, it is done with oil paint on canvas & is nice and large sized ----
Blue Bottles - this digital redraw of a 2020 sketch took me about five hours spread out over two weeks. #DigitalArt #Procreate #realism #art #StillLife
