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“painted sunsets // white curtains” -Golden Hour by Red and the Rebels (2021) 🍒✨
The Red Baron's cameo in Ottoway Volume 2. I might repost this on his birth and death days. Landscapes are my weakness, and bird's eye shots too. Thank George Barbier for the Autumn colour scheme.
Major Isenstein's red 1915 Chevrolet is on the road below.
@tristandelarkadien for landscape art exchange!
Wilhelmian and Meiji period sketches. Concept art for Moth.
Edgefield, South Carolina, 1900
Inktober - Day 23 and 24
I thought I'd put these two together, as they're twins. They've shown up in some postcards before, but they don't even have names yet. I'm sure I'll think of something.
Sketchavember - Day 3
I decided to try drawing the mirror twins in my normal style. They seemed to come out okay.
I have finished my black and plaid 1890s winter dress! While it’s based on an extant piece from the 1890s, I used different materials, as I was trying to make the entire thing with fabrics I already had on hand. I’m very proud to say that I bought NOTHING new to make this dress! Everything, from the plaid wool and the black velvet, to the red silk and the buckram, came out of my fabric stash.
The dress is made from 5 yards of black and grey wool, three yards of black cotton velvet, and about two yards of black taffeta, mainly for linings, which I had to finagle from scraps leftover from other projects. The hat is a buckram and wire frame hat covered in red silk. I was going to embellish it with grey feathers, but I didn’t have any in my collection, so that will have to wait until I have some spare cash on hand.
You can read all about how I made the dress, and see more pictures, on my main dress blog. http://mistress-of-disguise.blogspot.com/2016/11/a-black-plaid-1890s-winter-dress.html
I don’t really like period dramas but I won’t lie, I do like the fashion (especially the dresses)
Victorian slang should make a comeback. And btw, I got the morbs if you even care.
EDWARDIAN COTTON STRIPE KNIT SWIMSUIT
Found on Vintage Martini’s page. I’ve never seen an extant one, and it looks so easy to copy I think I’ll hafta save up some knit.
Besides, how cute is that extra long side button placket?
Evening dress, 1901
From the Cleveland History Center on Pinterest
HEY ARTISTS!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
Portrait of the author's wife (Grace Knewstub Orpen) reading at Howth Bay by William Orpen (1878-1931). Private collection.
Dowager Empress Cixi of the Qing Dynasty sitting on an armchair (1906) by Hubert Vos. Palace Museum, Beijing.
Portrait of Estonian poet Marie Under, partner of the author (1904) by Ants Laikmaa (born Hans Laipman).
Portrait of Estonian poet Marie Under by Ants Laikmaa (1904). Art Museum of Estonia.
Portrait of Eugen Schäfer by Ants Laikmaa (1906). Art Museum of Estonia.