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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 Balance on French History is Hard to Get Correctly

Good evening, my friend, dear reader of this present post! Happy Monday of a new week! The month of April 2026 reaches its final days, hopefully those will proceed nicely. How are you? Hopefully your werkend went well and with no incidents? Those can be disruptive and bothersome. My own set of days went okay overall. I did receive an important document this Friday, which was the results of my neuropsychological evaluation. As it turns out, I have an IQ above average! It caught me by surprise and I am so happy to see it! My own is at 110, and though this is not exactly what would be called "geniality" territory, that is quite functional and then some, therefore I am happy, on that end. The test flagged exactly what is going on in my head, the result is not entirely positive, and this is not that it can be fixed or cured, it is frustrating how that is not the case with brain issues and quirks, just mitigated and dealt with. I do not have ADHD, but I do have OCD, in a level high...

Sketch of the Week! The Art Noveau small city!

Hello to you!! Good morning and happy Wednesday!! How are you today and how are things going? As usual, I wish you the best and hope you are having a nice morning! I woke up recently and decided to just jump in and do today's post, before class! My position is comfortable, I'm still on my pajamas (thank Goodness! I love pajamas) and the electric fans are here working, which is wonderful! Not sure how the weather will be like today, will I be able to wear my sweater again? Hard to say yet, I hope so though! There were dashund fighting in my feet for my attention! Luckily they got tired and are sleeping now, puppies can be annoying, you know, though they are so cute! I really have to draw more, specially draw more buildings and landscapes! I've been doing more faces recently, as they're easier and faster to do, but every face needs a personality, a soul, it is not easy to come with this, with landscapes and buildings is easier, though they're harder to do, demand more time and patience. I have my sheets and pencils here but I won't be able to draw at the moment... maybe tonight, but probably not so... Anyways, here we go to our sketch of the week! Let's check it!


This one is the sketch of my recent history that demanded more time to do! A whole week if I'm not mistaken! Too many details in it! We started with the trees in the wind, then with the more stable trees, then with the building, and finally with the background, having trees and distant edifications! I wish I could be more inventive in the painting of the nature details, but I think the pallete works overall! Here we have an art noveau set of buildings, going up to touch the sky! Carefully crafted and with many details, those buildings have a dramatic and appealing nature that people tend to look up to, as many buildings of the time did, they definitely have a soul of its own, something that would be fight against by Modernism in the 20th century, a building do not have to have a soul, they say, but it needs to serve humanity alone, and some go to the point of abolishing any kind of decoration in it. It's hard to say what they had in mind with serving humanity, but the fact is those art noveau buildings stand in nature, merging even with it, the pink goes with the green, and so on the landscape becomes one.

And I think with those remarks we finish today's post! Just a small description of the building we have here. Thank you so much for being here, dear reader, you are the very best and I'm very grateful for your presence! I'm so happy to be here writing! And now I must think what will be the tune of the week!! Until the next post! Have a wonderful day!

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