Ian Kevin Draper Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty – Brain Pickings wordpress.com “The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Margate Translated #Art wordpress.com In the 1700s, bathing in the sea and drinking seawater became a fashionable cure for all sorts of diseases. From the Georgian period onwards visitors …
Ian Kevin Draper Goya, The Portraits at the National Gallery wordpress.com Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) ranks with Velasquez at the pinnacle of Spanish painting. Best known today for his compelling depictions of …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Theatrical Attitude #Art wordpress.com This enchantress was the famous late 19th and early 20th century actress and singer Miss Marie Tempest [1864-1942], who is referred to in the …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #16 Dark Side of the Moon wordpress.com It’s Week 16 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, A makeover …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Casanova’s Waterway #Art wordpress.com I’m back on the moody and mysterious trail with Casanova’s Waterway. The original photograph of Venice, taken by Nick Scheerbart, is available for …
Ian Kevin Draper Suzuki Harunobu and Japanese Erotica | A R T L▼R K wordpress.com On the 7th of July 1770, allegedly, Japanese woodblock print artist Suzuki Harunobu died of a sudden illness. The place and real cause of his death …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Flying Fish #Art #Steampunk wordpress.com A gentle touch of steampunk to start the week. I’ve used the reverse of one of my vintage postcards and added an almond green texture. To this I have …
Ian Kevin DraperIcon version of the Flipboard logo First Night Design | Healthiest Diet in the Mediterranean wordpress.com In the mid-1990s, after a delightful holiday in Crete with a dear friend, she and I decided we wanted to buy a bolt-hole on the island. I planned to …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #15 Six Days Seven Nights wordpress.com It’s Week 14 already of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | The Bride Beautiful #Vintage #Photography wordpress.com “Dead people are easy to love. It’s the living ones who are hard.” ― Laurence Overmire This late Victorian beauty in her exquisite wedding gown is an …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | ‘Such Serviceable Flowers’ #Art wordpress.com The title is a quote from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark in which the inimitable Morningside teacher of impressionable girls is talking …
Ian Kevin DraperIcon version of the Flipboard logo First Night Design | Hummingbird Tune wordpress.com Inspired by the exquisite paintings of Janet Weight Reed, whose running motif is the hummingbird, I have used the same background as in Seagull …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! #Halloween wordpress.com It’s astonishing what you can achieve when you don’t know what you want or where you’re heading. Such was the case with Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! I …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Don’t look now but here comes another Lighthouse #Art wordpress.com After the success of Scorched Earth both here and in my galleries, I couldn’t resist trying the same process with the 2 Lil’ Owls texture—2LO …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #14 The Incident at Montebello by P.A. Moed wordpress.com #photorehabcovermakeover Week 14; The Incident at Montebello by Patti Moed It’s Week 14 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #13 Golden Valley Silver Flowers wordpress.com It’s Week 13 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday, and I …
Ian Kevin DraperIcon version of the Flipboard logo So I Have a Number of Faults, said the Skeleton wordpress.com There are two versions available, one that says ‘What was I – just a number’ and ‘So I have a number of faults!’ The original vintage skeletons are …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Angel Love #Christmas #Art wordpress.com I know, I know — the last thing you want to think about is Christmas, especially when we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving to come but what’s a …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Venetian Harbour, Chania #Art wordpress.com This photograph of the Venetian Harbour in Chania, Crete, was taken by me on this occasion and not Mr FND! My idea was to create a watercolour with …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #9 George Orwell’s 1984 wordpress.com It’s Week 9 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday. Actually, …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | The Woman Behind the Curtain wordpress.com As usual, I had something entirely different in mind when I began The Woman Behind the Curtain. I had discovered a photograph on Wikimedia of a …
Ian Kevin DraperIcon version of the Flipboard logo First Night Design | ‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive…’ wordpress.com ‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ William Wordsworth, The Prelude Romantic Meeting is available on other products …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | Rachel Strong by Léon Bakst 1924 #Cards #Prints wordpress.com Rachel Strong by Léon Bakst 1924 © First Night Vintage The Russian designer and painter Léon Bakst (1866–1924), born Lev Samuilovich Rozenberg, is …
Ian Kevin Draper Pierre Louis Pierson (1822 – 1913) – Countess Virginie de Castiglione | ღ Vintage Blog wordpress.com In 1844 Pierre-Louis Pierson began operating a studio in Paris that specialized in hand-colored daguerreotypes. In 1855 he entered into a partnership …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | #PhotoRehabCoverMakeover #7 The Green Mile wordpress.com It’s Week 7 of the Photo Rehab Cover Makeover run by Desley Jane of Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist and Lucile of Lucile de Goday. This week, …
Ian Kevin Draper First Night Design | ‘Happiness is a Butterfly’ wordpress.com ‘Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.’ …
Ian Kevin Draper Old Chelsea – more photographs from the Miscellany | The Library Time Machine wordpress.com The interest here is not number 19 St Leonard’s Terrace, a perfectly good house which takes up most of the picture, but the door to number 18 on the …
Ian Kevin DraperIcon version of the Flipboard logo First Night Design | Halloween: The Final Frontier wordpress.com
