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“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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In Which we Wrap up February and I think of my upcoming appointments with the doctors...

Good morning, friend! Happy Saturday! The last week of February went by quite fast, and here it is, the end of such month, one to set the tone for 2026, or at least parts of it. I am happy to have you here today in the divagation store and society. How are you? As for me, I am okay, it is that moment of the month when food misses the fridge, and the gas misses the stove, it means it is almost time for more grocery shopping, to be done ideally as soon as possible, with the first day of March, or so. As for the month, I can say with some degree of fulfillment that at least it was a productive one. I have worked on 7 drawings in total, which is quite above average concerning this area. I did write about the same quantity on the blog as well, and I did reach around 900 entries, which I am so happy to have done it.  The weather has become decidedly hotter, given February is the apex of summer on that regard. I am dreaming of the rains that will come at some point, but for now I just hop...

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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