20th Century Architecture

This house was built in 1893 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Walter H. Gale. It's one of the three "Boot-Leg" houses because Wright designed them while he was still working for Adler & Sullivan and his contract prohibited him from taking outside commissions. This was the first of the houses completed after he left the firm.

I think this house is beautiful. I have a thing for round rooms and wall to wall windows. I can only imagine the upper room of the rounded part of the house being the perfect room for a studio plenty of light and space. And the veranda makes it all the more perfect even though it's in the Queen Anne style and technically I prefer Victorian architecture.

Italian Renaissance Drawings

I don't know if this is really it but this drawing looks so much like the wedding gift given to Danielle by Da Vinci at the end of the movie Ever After. By my standards that movie is one of the best alternative Cinderella stories ever so I had to pick this drawing. Of course, the movie is fictional so it's not like I really know the orgins of the sketch but I still love it.

The skill level of Da Vinci is so immense I'm not sure if I should be inspired or just quit because I'll never manage to be that amazing. His blending and shading is seamless and the way he's drawn her hair is almost minimalist in that he uses so few lines yet those lines speak to her having a full and untameable mane of hair. it's positively stunning.