Will, Maynard, Dorthea, Frida and Diego...
Author/dentist—Will Lillibridge (my great-granduncle) wrote the book Ben Blair. It was published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1905. This was the same year Will’s older brother, Lowell Stanton Lillibridge (my great-grandfather) helped settle the town of Burke, South Dakota where I grew up.
I recently discovered that the cover art for Ben Blair was done by artist, Maynard Dixon—he was married…
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An Unshakable Belief System...
Howling. Yipping and barking. I wake. Coyotes seeming to be just outside my bedroom window on a clear mid-March night. Yet another odd winter has come to a close and spring is now official. A brief stay of cold on this day. The weather will soon warm. Flowers daring to appear. Stems only. This is Vermont after all …
The artistic influence of a shift in season permeates my studio. A predictor of…
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kestrels 🐛💚🌲🍃
inspired by a nesting pair I got to watch feed their chicks in the green mountains of Vermont
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Nicolae Vermont (Romanian, 1866–1932)
detail of Carnations 1924
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Stickneybrook - William H. Hays , 2014.
American, b. 1956 -
Colour linocut reduction on wove paper, 12 x 9 in .
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I managed to finish this on time after all yaaay
TBF I have some other ideas for other couples for valentine's day, but I don't have the time this week to draw much...so I'll do those later.
Diojas is wearing Azul's leather jacket btw.
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100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #16 // Scenic Lake Champlain
Today's palette is from a magazine illustration published in 1915.
Welcome to my impromptu series of vaguely threatening travel posters!
I had so much fun with the pine barrens poster that I decided to keep playing around with it, this time in my current home state.
Welcome to Burlington, Vermont, bordering Lake Champlain, home of Champ the lake monster!
I don't actually know that much about Champ, except that I think the theories around what Champ is and how they ended up in a lake are roughly similar to the theories around Nessie. I did have to double-check about giving them ears. I second-guessed myself because I'm more familiar with photos of Nessie, and later on I did find a photo of Champ that also didn't have ears. But there are a couple of sculptures of Champ that I saw have ears so I kept them.
The thing that really differentiates Champ from Nessie, though, I believe, is the double-hump. All of the sculptures have a really pronounced double-hump. Though of course now that I'm double-checking that I see it actually goes the other way, with the smaller hump in the front.
Ah well. I at least learned from the pine barrens poster and designed it from the start in a high resolution, then shrunk it down for posting. So I'll flip it on the big one.
Do you have a local cryptid, urban legend, or mystery spot? I love learning about new cryptids, especially the ones few people know about.
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This is Vermont...
I drove home from a suburb of Boston just a day or two ago. A quick trip but a full couple of days. Time spent with my daughter and granddaughter. Busy but precious…
Traffic continued to build. As did the heat. A holiday weekend was at hand. The 4th of July. Cars with bikes secured to their back hatches. Thule roof rack and cargo boxes atop numerous SUV’s. The sky heavy with smoke. Fog like…
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Nicolae Vermont (Romanian, 1866–1932)
Seaming Wench 1929
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