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Artist and writer. โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ Just Say No to AI. ๐Ÿšซ She/Her. Cis/Het. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ Goth. (โ ๏พ‰โ โ—•โ ใƒฎโ โ—•โ )โ ๏พ‰โ *โ .โ โœง๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿ’€ Mostly harmless. ๐ŸŒŽ ๐Ÿ…ต๐Ÿ†„๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ…บ ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…ท๐Ÿ…ด ๐Ÿ…ฑ๐Ÿ…ป๐Ÿ…พ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ…บ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ…ท๐Ÿ…ฐ๐Ÿ…ธ๐Ÿ…ฝ

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    Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social

    Artists have always loved to sketch!

    Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479โ€“1458 BC.

    Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

    MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. ๐Ÿ“ท The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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    Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artistโ€™s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. Itโ€™s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning โ€˜smallโ€™, โ€˜poorโ€™, or โ€˜badโ€™. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
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    chirasul @moth.gay

    "portrait of my father" oil on canvas. birthday gift for my dad

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