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Alyssa Blackwell - Hearth Craft Brooms
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"A witch carrying a child on her broom." José Guadalupe Posada, c.1880-1990, zincograph, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain
#WitchSky #art #arthistory
A black and white print depicting an elderly witch flying over a silhouetted town skyline in a broom, with a small child held in her lap. A crescent moon and flying black birds or bats fill the sky around her.
February 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Workshop twine examples are now online! Only took me 5 years 😂
February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Made it to the fun part
February 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Slow progress is so frustrating 😣 for so many days now, it’s been my goal to finish this broom. Things keep happening, things keep breaking, problems keep needing to be solved, materials keep needing to be changed out or acquired. I almost gave up yesterday. But I didn’t, and I can feel it today ❤️‍🔥
Set against a black backdrop and surrounded by brooms and broommaking supplies atop an oriental-style rug, a long, slender black broom with a crooked handle leans against a high-backed chair with a carved green man face. Cool daylight illuminates the scene from the left, casting deep shadows to the right
February 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Slowing down a lot lately, and trying some very silly things that I’m now very excited to finish after dayyys of slow progress 😆 sending lots of broom love 🫶🏻
February 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Art opens "that hidden, semiconscious kingdom within us from which emotions emerge, where our moral sentiments are found — those instant, aesthetic-like reactions that cause us to feel disgust in the presence of cruelty and admiration in the presence of generosity."

www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/o...
Opinion | The Power of Art in a Political Age (Gift Article)
Searching for beauty as the world turns ugly.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone, c. 1479–1425 BC 🦛❤️

Perhaps a practice sketch or a template from 3,500 years ago!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt.
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Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has a seemingly friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the Met museum in the division of finds.
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Laying out first of the Lovers Collection ❤️‍🔥
January 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Sunny scenes in the shop this week ☀️
January 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Alright then 🦋
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM