Your favorite paintings?

[thesummerqueen]

Oh, I've always loved that one of the nightmare, Shell - Fuselli, isn't it?

I've always been partial to Bouguereau. I love most of his stuff, but this one especially. [nudity]

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But by far I think my favorite is John William Waterhouse. I fell in love with him because of "The Lady of Shalott". I have his other of her in a boat, and also the second picture - the Soul of the Rose - as a print.

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This is Stephanie Pui Mun Law. She does fantastic watercolors.

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And how do you forget Froud, the vision behind Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal?

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And last but very not least: Alan Lee - one half the creative effort behind Lord of the Rings (the other being John Howe, who deserves honorable mention. Lee collaborated on a book with Froud about fairies, and illustrated many things about the Fair Folk and Celtic myth, but my first introduction to him was a tome of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (it weighs a ton), illustrated with his ethereal watercolors.

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