Pretty Green

Here we go!

↑ Stepan Kolesnikoff "Spring Blooms"

↑ Jean Cooke "When the Wind Blows My Garden"

Neil Raitt

      
      This is a painting by artist Neil Raitt. Let's take a look here... - so what do we notice? Mountains! Holy Bob Ross with a palette knife mountains. Neil Raitt decided they were going to live... everywhere! I am so enthralled by this thing; I've never seen anything like it.

↑ Alpine 2, oil on canvas, 240 x 210cm. 2013 - via Neil Raitt

↑ Alpine 2 (detail), oil on canvas, 240 x 210cm. 2013 - via Neil Raitt

50 Words 4 Snow

      Sullarniq: Eskimo for snow blown in through a doorway.

↑ "Nocturne in Grey and Gold - Chelsea Snow" James McNeill Whistler (1876)

        Tuaq: Eskimo for lump of old ice frozen into new ice.

↑ "Hunters in the Snow" Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

       Qanipalaat: Eskimo for feathery clumps of falling snow.

↑ "Moscow. Red Square" Boris Kustodiev

      Pukak: Eskimo for snow crust.

↑ "Ipatiev monastery in the winter light" Aleksey Savrasov (1870)

       Nittaalaq: Eskimo for air thick with snow.

↑ "February" Grant Wood (1940)

      Here's a little send-off from Kate Bush — it's my favorite song on 50 Words For Snow:

      For extra credit, check out the title track "50 Words For Snow". (SPOILER: Stephen Frye monotonously recites Inuit snow words for eight minutes. It makes me feel like I'm watching performance art that I reaaaaaaly shouldn't be giggling at but I juuuuust can't help it... You know. But, like, in a good way.)

      Inuit words via Azimuth.

Jusko's Fantasy

      MOSTLY NAKED BABES WITH SWORDS! OILY SHIRTLESS BARBARIANS WITH ARROW-WOUNDS! MARTIAN MONSTERS WITH POINTY TEETH! LARA CROFT! These illustrations by artist Joe Jusko are a treat, you know, like a giant spoon full of sugar - or maybe an entire roast chicken that you can eat with your hands?

↑ Lady Death

Frosts and Branches

      Time to turn up the collar on that overcoat and break out the Robert Frost poems, kiddies! Sit 'round the smouldering fire in an old-timey New England fashion and think about the holes in your stockings, everyone!!  Seriously though,  I have such a soft spot for fall but I can't say just why because I'm not entirely sure myself. It's just so cold and damp and everything sinks down into hollows and it smells so secretive and... fall has the best NIGHTTIME AND GLOAMING!

↑ "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" Grant Wood (1931)

↑ "In the Golden Gloaming" John Atkinson Grimshaw (1881)

↑ "A Manor House In Fall" John Atkinson Grimshaw

↑ "The Magic Circle" John William Waterhouse (1886)

↑ "The Mystic Wood" John William Waterhouse (1914-1917?)

↑ "Autumn Landscape at Dusk" Vincent Van Gogh (1885)