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jaanwangji · 1 year

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To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

#percy shelley #to a skylark #quotes #poetry #reading #words #shit human but he got some good words #mine*

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thatwritererinoriordan · 4 months

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#percy shelley #percival bysshe shelley #to a skylark #ghizela rowe #Spotify

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incendavery · 2 months

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allemande left!

(did you know: in gender-neutral contra dance calling, "gents and ladies" is often replaced by "larks and robins"! isnt that cool?🐦🌈✨️)

#artists on tumblr #illustration on tumblr #skylark #robin #conta dance #folk dance #davedrawsstuff #no image description

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cherocarofficial · 2 months

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1954 Buick Skylark Convertible

#buick riviera #car #cars #classic car #buick skylark #buick roadmaster #convertible #oldsmobile

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skylarkspinner · 1 month

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fiber art adventures in egypt

I recently got back from a trip to Egypt & finally got around to organizing some pictures to share. One of the things I was most excited about was seeing what I could find on fiber arts and textiles.

Dropping everything under a read more, 'cause this will be a long post haha

first visit: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)

At the time of visiting, they had a special textiles exhibit. It covered Pharonic Egypt all the way up to modern times, although I only had time to check out the dynastic & a bit of the Coptic portion of the exhibit (which was what I was really hoping to see anyways)

Was super excited to see this diorama in person. I knew about it but had never seen good pictures of it. From the little I've seen of ancient Egyptian spinning, spinning with two spindles seems to be the norm rather than a master technique? It also shows up in tomb art, which the exhibit also shared:

They also used a different fiber preparation (splicing to create a rove of fiber, no traditional drafting to my understanding) so that probably made a difference? Regardless I really want to see if I can replicate the technique, especially because their spindles look so similar to modern spindles??

I took so many pictures of spindles, guys, and I fully intend to either have a few replicas made or to learn to make some myself. Also, although they were unlabeled... I'm pretty sure those are beaters for weaving? That was a bit of a trend with this trip, so much stuff was unlabeled :( I would've killed to at least get some date estimates for some of the stuff they had on display. I was nerding out in here though, and my family took a few pictures of how excited I was getting. A bit embarrassing, but eh haha

The exhibit also had a section on natural dyes used with a fun visual;

There was several diagrams specifically describing each dye source, but in the interest of not overloading on pictures I'll just list them out. For blues; woad, Yellows; turmeric, safflower, saffron, or yellow ochre; reds; madder, henna, pomegranate, and kermes. I originally thought kermes was another way to say cochineal, but it only seems to be distantly related.

next visit: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center

A small art center dedicated to hand-weaving wool and cotton tapestries. All of their work was museum quality & awe inspiring!!

Was even invited to their back rooms to watch a few of their weavers working; no I don't have room to put a room-sized loom anywhere but heck do I want one now

Our guide that took us through talked a bit about the natural dyes they use (all of their dyes are dyed in house with what they grow in their dye garden!!!) and got excited to hear I was also interested in natural dyes! He seemed a bit disappointed I'd never worked with indigo and. while indigo scares me, I'll take it as a sign that maybe I should try some time this year haha.

final visit; the Egyptian Museum

we really had to rush through this one which was a huge shame because it's packed full of artifacts. Also, the lighting in there is atrocious, so apologies for the not great pictures ahead.

They had a fascinating display of textile tools, more than what the NMEC had;

(Hand for size reference) I want all of these spindles! So badly! But a few of them look so much like a few of the spindles I own already?? A few of them had a spiraling notch, that's so cool? But also, what's going on with the one with two whorls? I have no idea. I'm fascinated.

Look at these whorls!! Although again, I'm a bit confused; the lack of labeling strikes again. Unsure why some of these "whorls" have two holes, or what the metal object with the wooden handle is. The display implies sewing needles, and some of them do look like it, but others.... really don't look like sewing needles. I'm absolutely enchanted by this little whorl though. I think it has birds on it?

More objects that I'm baffled by- the signage doesn't really indicate what some of this stuff is, if it's even known. Also confused by the object wrapped in white string in the right pic; it looks like a distaff but to the best of my knowledge the (ancient at least) Egyptians didn't use distaffs. It probably popped up in later times and was put in this display since it was still relevant, but I'm still not sure.

I have so many more pictures & thoughts but I'll save those for more specific future projects. I've been doing research outside this trip on ancient Egyptian spinning techniques and desperately want to go deeper into that, this trip just solidified how excited it makes me. If you made it all the way through this, many thanks for reading!

Bonus; look at this ancient linen 🥺

#hand spinning #archaeology #extant artifact #weaving #fiber arts #long post #letters from skylark #sorry for the overall low quality images in this post. Got a new camera and wasn't the best at using it this trip #also the raw image files were huge so I heavily downsized them to make sure this post wasn't a beast to load #would be happy to share the raw images if desired though

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chrisskylark · 1 year

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anok yai in jamaica

40×60 acrylic and water on paper from my "swallow the lake" series

2 unique prints out of 10 (each one will be slightly different)

#chris skylark #anok yai #printmaking

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unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog · 14 days

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This wasn't originally going to be an ace pride piece but during the inking some of the stone looked a lot like the ace pride flag. If I wasn't there and didn't know it was a skylark I'd have probably assumed it's a thrush since it isn't doing its iconic display flight, which is where the message came from.

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besidethepath · 1 month

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An increasingly rare guest in our fields: the eurasian skylark

#photographers on tumblr #original photography #birding #bird photography #bird watching #eurasian skylark #Feldlerche #Kaltenkichener Heide

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rithalie-art · 3 months

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Second post with some fanart!

AKEMI

It’s a sketch but I haven’t drawn in so long my hand literally hurts T-T

Akemi with her small wings, decorative only. They glitter like gold and their only job seems to be betraying her thoughts and puffing up whenever she is angry. They also take ridiculously long to wash away any grime or sand they collect. High maintenance!

TAIGEN

Taigen’s wings are his pride and joy, wide and beautiful. They appear bluish green in this sketch but it’s mostly because of the night light. They are brown, just like those of an osprey. They shine with oil and attention they have just gotten at the brothel from all the lovely ladies he’s been drinking with.

Like I wrote before, he spreads them whenever he can, especially to goad.

(Pose comes from the pilot episode and no, it’s not because I didn’t master that beautiful man’s face yet, not at all…)

And now…

MIZU

That’s how her wings look like at the time of her first duel with Taigen:

Yeeeeesh… they look rough. She does cut them evenly, it’s just that lack of preening and being thrown through paper walls will do that to the person (Ignore Taigen - some have good hair genes, he has good feathers).

They are cut as short as she can keep them and are matted and just sad.

For comparison, here’s how they should look like

Woah, big wingspan baby!

And much healthier, too! Shiny, glittering! I have a feeling that Mizu’s wings would be almost iridescent at the top, definitely pretty enough to make Taigen jealous. Also, wouldn’t it be hilarious if they reacted to the littlest bit of care like crazy and make Akemi green with jealousy with how low of a maintenance they actually are?

Too bad no one thought to teach Mizu how to care for them properly…

Anyways, hope you all like the sketches. I would love to hear your headcanons bout this au and I would be HONORED if anyone joined in!