#monthoflove
Unicorns are complex symbols. They are the ultimate representation of innocence, as well as love and devotion. They stand proud on coats of arms, emblems of courage and strength. They are also symbols of sacrifice, as we know from our tapestries, woven records of hunts for them. They are avatars of the sacred beauty of nature, and the curse of its fragility. They represent something older and just beyond humanity’s understanding- something pure, which we are not.
Tears too, are complex. Tears flow with any emotion felt deeply, wether it be elation or dismay, or rage, or fear, or relief. Crying is something deeply primal that we cannot control, like hunger and bleeding, yet what other animal cries? Tears are a cleanse, a chance to reset and try again, to become for an instant, something pure.
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My first submission to this year’s Month of Love challenge! This week’s prompt was “Tears,” which got me all swept up in my feelings.
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Because it’s the month of love and hearts!!
The Satyr Loved
For 2019′s @monthofloveart theme of ‘tears’, with much love to my instagram buds who suggested delicious details (and nuance) for this mopey feller. Even monsters get broken hearts.
Title from Percy Bysshe Shelley: “The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild…”
graphite and gold acrylic on paper, 6″ x 8.5″
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Hee! I tried giffing! It’s not as smooth as I’d like (because I’m impatient) but now I’m afraid to boof it up, so here it sits. Created for @monthofloveart, for the theme of “red”. This is a representation of that blissful sinking first-blush feel of love. And bad animation.
“SINKING”
graphite and red ink on paper
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“Adam”
by Christine Griffin
5″ x 8″
graphite and white acrylic on Yupo paper, digitally bedazzled
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Created for the delightful Month of Love challenge! This week’s theme: BLUE
It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t draw an attractive man. I think I’m finally getting the hang of arting on Yupo. Graphite slides on so pretty! Next experiment: oils.
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Black
The night’s almost done, But I see your eyes, You wanna go again, Girl, I’ll go again, Girl, I’ll go again
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The Knight of the Skylarks — Clare H McCanna
“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.”
- To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
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Song — Quintin Gleim
Inspired by growing up on a farm and summers full of listening to music and napping on pigs~
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Transylvanian G•thic — Lee Moyer
16" x 24" Graphite on Paper
Small Gods (with Seanan McGuire) • https://smallgodseries.tumblr.com/
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Orpheus — Kaysha Siemens
graphite on pergamenata paper, 5x7 inches.
The song of Orpheus, stilled for a moment in sorrow. Shades drift around him, drawn by the music of his voice and harp, but not the one weeps and sings for, his beloved Eurydice.
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Epic I — Emily Majarian
Down below and up above,
In harmony and rhythm,
The Gods sang a song of love
And the world sang it with them.
-Anaïs Mitchell
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Harpy’s Song — Ana Alvarez
A harpy passionately luring some unfortunate soul with her deadly song.
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