Снежна Авис / Janez 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@snowyavis.bsky.social

Hobby visual artist from the Balkans 🎨 Dinaric Serb & Pannonian Slovene▫️26▫️ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️▫️Biologist▫️Anarchist▫️he/she/any https://snowyavis.straw.page/ Alt acc: @BalkanAvis.bsky.social

I went to my family's home region recently, and more importantly forced my father to visit it (something he's been avoiding to do in over 30 years). Needless to say, there's a level of peace your mind finds when it's at the right spot even when everything else seems so bleak over there.

Снежна Авис / Janez 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@snowyavis.bsky.social · 2w ago

《 Мир у повратку - Peace in returning 》

Digital painting showing the artist's self portrait, sitting near a spring. The person is sitting on some rocks by a water string coming from the left, which is hidden under the shade of a tree. There's grasslands and a house in the distance. The person's is in the folk clothing of the Dalmatian Hinterland, which consist of a white shirt, black vest and overcoat with red embroidery, pants tucked in white socks, leather shoes and a cylindrical cap with red top and black sides. They look calm and are smiling while looking at the spring. The signature in the lower left corner says "Snowy Avis, Jul.'26"

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.Two of Onfim’s works.  On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork.  On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.