Valerie RoneyFeb 15, 2025
Surfacing for two points before I crawl back into my non-verbal hidey hole:
1) I am obviously having a really rough week
2) ya'll are the glitter in my shit storm - small little sparkles in the darkness; they matter more than you think. ✨🤎
Show threadcohanFeb 15, 2025
@vlrny I was just sharing some old drawings I have on a Print On Demand site-- here's one for you:
Show threadValerie RoneyFeb 15, 2025
@cohanf
Two things:
1) 🥲
2) that alt text... 😘👌
Show threadcohanFeb 16, 2025
@vlrny Since I learned what alt text is *really* for ( I read some bad advice years ago about how to use it in blogging) I make an effort to make it -hopefully- give the reader who is not seeing the image some kind of an interesting experience!
I'm working on a blog post, and with blog photos + promo images for social media, I edited 22 photos and wrote the alts in advance-- took me several days at a couple/few hours per day...lol-- and that's using some of the alt for a few similar pics..lol
Show threadValerie RoneyFeb 17, 2025
@cohanf that's really awesome. Your efforts at it have clearly paid off. Also that drawing was beautiful. Quirky and beautiful. :)
Show threadcohan
@vlrny thanks! The goddess drawings are close to my heart -I have a bunch of them, based on ancient artifacts (and interpretations) from the archaeology and archaeomythology work of Marija Gimbutas
(here's an intro if you aren't familiar- this is not a dull scholarly film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjE2-H1R9Zs&t=249s
Here's another drawing from the same time- then a blog link to follow
#art #MastoArt #painting #drawing #Goddess #animist #Gimbutas
Signs out of time, the story of archeologist Marija Gimbutas

YouTube
Feb 17, 2025 at 9:18pmWeb
Show threadcohanFeb 17, 2025
@vlrny here's my blog link with some other drawings and blabber about it...
#BirdGoddess #pagan #OldEurope #Gimbutas #NatureSpirits #animism #art
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/05/blog-post.html
Bird Goddess and Friends: Drawings and Thoughts on Ancient European Goddess Culture

 Note: Some of these images will suggest 'devils' or 'demons' to some viewers, coming from a Christian perspective. That is not what they ar...

Show threadValerie RoneyFeb 19, 2025
@cohanf I am boosting this to remind me yo listen to it with the text reader thing when my eyes are tired. (also because it is very likely awesome, your art is so quirky and loving).
Show threadcohanFeb 19, 2025
@vlrny The video I linked above (not mine) is also, if I recall correctly, good for listening without necessarily looking all the time- they do show some of the ancient artifacts I was inspired by, but most of it is interviews with various people and Olympia Dukakis narrating, so could be enjoyed eyes closed, mostly or entirely.
Show threadValerie RoneyFeb 19, 2025
@cohanf oh! This all sounds so lovely! Thanks for thinking of me. 🥲