Explorer O.E. Gandy making a dive to a depth of 230 feet, 1907
image credit: The Brooklyn Eagle/Brooklyn Public Library
I finished painting those apples from a while ago! They were a very up and down project, getting the colours to work with me was a whole learning process in itself but I’m pleased with the result, particularly since they still totally come apart! And they’re so shiny…
Malcador raised his hand and the lights in his chambers came on. Dorn looked around, he had never entered the Sigillite’s private apartments before. Ancient images hung on the walls: flaking, fragile things of wood, canvas and decomposing pigments, preserved in thin, blue fields of stasis; the smoke pale portrait of a woman with the most curious smile; garish yellow flowers rendered in thick paint; the unflinching, rheumy gaze of an old fleshy man, cast in shadow, tobacco brown.
“The Lightning Tower” by Dan Abnett
