in looking up the colour mummy brown i found many people (moms?) calling themselves “mummy brown” and that’s gross, moms

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This is really cool! You can look at tons of high resolution photos of paintings from museums all over the world. The detail is so fine that you can zoom in to the individual brushstroke level on some works and it’s still perfectly sharp. Pretty cool, and totally free.

Caitlin?

Maddie?

Maddie?

jlovely:

emphasisadded:

Museum directors trash talk via twitter and each selects a piece to borrow from the other if their hometown football team wins the Super Bowl!

joyannahope:

“This miserable job has given me a goiter… The force of it has jammed my belly up beneath my chin. Beard to the sky… Brush splatterings make a pavement of my face… I’m not a painter.”

— Michelangelo on painting the Sistine Chapel

I just profiled this organization for an assignment in one of my classes, and they seem really rad. Check out their website if you get the chance.