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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which the Divagation Store reaches the 900 posts Milestone! Reflection on Why...

Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this present post! How are you today, this new week? It should be the last one for February, quite soothing that it will end on a Sunday as well, given it started on a Sunday, too! As for me, I did sleep quite a bit yesterday, but I cannot complain of not being a productive day, given I finished reading the biography of Madame de Pompadour, written by Nancy Mitford. Quite a good one, and in fact, I would say is a great one! What a remarkable lady she was, the great patronesse of Rococo, though she sensed a move in France towards a more neoclassical direction, and overall set the sails on the direction of the style of the next era, the one called Louis XVI style, though in truth it was the queen Marie Antoinette who truly set the tone. I like this topic, and I love her majesty. Though the late rococo she preferred was hinted with an antique tint, it was not the more sober neoclassical of the 1790's and the Napoleonic era. She brought flowers a...
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Sketch of the Week! In which Christmas goes on!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Happy Boxing day and happy Christmas! I thought about doing a post out of schedule yesterday, but I decided to take the day to rest a bit and return today with the Sketch of the week! Christmas as December 24th and 25th is gone for 2018, but the wonderful season still goes, passing through the new year and it reaches its end on January 5th of 2019! I definitely will keep on celebrating it, and like I keep on saying, Christmas is everyday of the year! It stands on the background for most of the year, and it comes out strong in the special season! This Christmas was one of relaxation and rest. It always is, but this one caught the attention. Played lots of The Sims, and made some sketches! I plan on doing some more in the future, and I do need to return on reading my book!!! It's such a big one, I'm so far for being finished with it! Today after writing this I'll at least try to read one chapter of it. I also need to water my lovely plants! I'm being more careful with the water I give to them, Succulents and Cactuses don't like too much water, so I never know 100% when to water them! I try to keep things on a rhythm, so I give them water every Monday, but I wasn't at home this Monday, so I do have to update them on their water!
Before we begin, I found this lovely piece of illustration yesterday at night, and I just wanted to share it with you guys today!


This is Christmas Eve, made in 1982 by Ronald Searle! A truly playful and lovely image of two nice kittens messin around on the Christmas Tree! I loved the style of it and I love Kittens, this is Christmas for me indeed! Quite quirky and lovely! I needed to share that today with you guys! Right along with the sketch of the week, coming right away:


Coming as the Christmas mansion with trees, a street lamp and a quick Santa Claus passing through the nighty sky, a very bright night, one of those you can almost go to the outdoors and see the words of a book next to you without the need of extra lamps. Santa passes throgh and leaves a trail, there's lots of snow on the ground, and the mansion is standing like a ship on the sea, its lights being reflected on the snow like the snow is water. It's a sea indeed, but a sea of snow, and it goes, deep, cold, powerful. I wanted to make the house with a proper set of colors, something I'm trying to do these days, because I tend to go wild on them, do every wall in a different neon color, too much is too much and it's awesome, this is what I usually do, so sometimes I just try to step back and do a more sober drawing, hard but well, sometimes it's worth it! Hope this was one of those times, hope you found my drawing nice, but honestly thank you so much for just being here. I do appreciate you a lot and you're the very best! This not so small post is what we have for today! See you guys next time!
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