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E. Ardincaple
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Writer of fantasy and fairy tales, collector of limited edition sunsets ✨
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E. Ardincaple @e-ardincaple.bsky.social · Oct 10
Me and my book judging everyone who says fairy tales are just for kids.
A screencap from the 1994 film "Thumbelina" where the titular character is sharing a sympathetic look with a similarly-sized illustration of a fairy prince from a storybook.
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"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," said Mary.

—The Secret Garden

🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
A painting of a child walking underneath a trellis with flowers blooming around her. A painting of a girl standing at the door of a cottage on a spring day with flowers blooming. A painting of an older woman watering a flower garden beside a cottage. A painting of a flowering pathway beside a pond in springtime.
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers."

—The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen

🎨 Edmund Dulac #fairytale #art #books #winter
An illustration of a snow-covered town at nighttime, where the ghost-like Snow Queen flies through the air above the roofs.
January 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I can't quite believe this isn't a photograph! "Winter" by Russian painter Ivan Shishkin, 1890
#winter #painting #art #TraditionalArt
A forest covered in freshly fallen snow, where every branch and twig is trimmed with white.
January 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Me with my cuppa earl grey on a cold winter morning
Winnie the Pooh holding a steaming mug and wrapped in a blanket.
January 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

🎨 Inga Moore
An illustration from The Wind and the Willows where Rat and Mole stroll together on a snowy village street.
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"Skaters on a Frozen Lake by Moonlight" by Danish painter Niels H. Christiansen, late Victorian Era 🌙❄️ #art #winter
A painting of ice skaters on a frozen lake beside a village blanketed with snow, surrounded by rocky mountains and illuminated by a full moon.
January 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"Winter Night in the Mountains" by Norwegian painter Harald Sohlberg, 1914. I've always thought this looked like an image from a winter fairy tale ❄️✨ #art
A painting of snow-covered mountains at nighttime, with a single star above them.
January 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"Northern Sea in the Moonlight" by Caspar David Friedrich
#sea #clouds #moon #landscape #painting #art #TraditionalArt
A sea landscape with dappled moonlit clouds.
January 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." —Terri Guillemets

🎨 "In the Heart of the Ozarks" by Thomas P. Barnett, 1925
A brightly-colored painting of a road curving along tree-lined river in wintertime.
January 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I have a jar of earl gray tea on my desk and the lid isn't quite snug so occasionally I catch the scent of it and it's the nicest thing I've accidentally done for myself in a long time
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Just found a grammatical error in the first sentence of a short story I published online three years ago and has since been read by thousands of people 🙃
January 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Is it too much to ask, to want to know all the trees by name? 🍃

🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted #nature #art #TraditionalArt
A painting of a stream running through a forest. A painting of a mountain landscape with pines. A painting of a wooded pathway where an artist sits painting her surroundings. A painting of a mountain stream with a path beside it.
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Hello new friends, I'm a writer and illustrator who likes talking about books, bugs, comics, animation, and the creative process. I take a lot of nature photos, you've been warned. 🌱🐝🌿🦋
Photo of a skipper butterfly sitting on a tiny white daisy sipping nectar, perfectly content with the world
November 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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The sky is ablaze 🔥
A photo of the sunset through treetops and broken clouds.
November 15, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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🔴I have always been most pleased with landscapes where I have managed to strip down all the details just to enough to create atmospheric effects. It's the hardest thing to paint.
#Landscape #LandscapeArtist #PastelPainting #PastelArt #OriginalArt #Painting #TraditionalArtist #ScottishArtist
A soft pastel landscape of marshland and a river at dawn, grey light and a low sun with two birds flying overhead. Soft pastel on sanded paper.
November 14, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A busy, bucolic autumn scene looking down on a village green filled with quiet activity such as walking, playing football and playing conkers
November 2, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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'Peony' - Tanigami Konan, ca. 1910s.
#JapaneseArt #flowers
Pink peony flower with green stem and leaves in pale yellow background.
November 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Fireweed in the Mountains
Grand Teton National Park- Wyoming
8x6” oil on board
Available!
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November 14, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Autumn along the Kennebunk River,
Kennebunk, ME
9x12” oil on board
Available!

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November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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The low-lying clouds make me think of giant sheep grazing on those hills!
November 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Feeling wistful today. The old world, the old web — all of it. I always thought I was good at adapting to change, but these days I'm not so sure.

🎨 "November Mosaic" by Willard Leroy Metcalf, 1922
#art #nature #thoughts
An autumn landscape with a river running by in the foreground with mountainous country beyond, where there are little homes dotted along a dirt road.
November 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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The sun setting over the Ewaso Ng'iro. #Kenya
November 13, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Welcome to the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines
A quote from Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery: "It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul." The quote is superimposed on a photo of a foggy autumn wood.
November 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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October 25, 2024 at 6:28 AM