274. Morning/Evening Star - Venus Anadyomene

It's been quite a while, but now I've got another star which is - in two ways even - no star:

Probably the most famous portrayal of the so called "Venus Anadyomene" - Venus rising from the sea: This is copied from Sandro Botticelli's painting "Nascita di Venere" (The Birth of Venus).

When the planet Venus is visible in the sky, it is often called "morning star" or "evening star". Obviously, it is no star yet often the brightes object in the morning or evening sky. It is always close to the sun - depending on its position rising shortly before or setting shortly after the sun. I knew I had to pay a tribute to this "star" at some point throughout this project, so here it is now. :)

P.S.: Late post as usual... This is yesterday's star.

147. Music Monday #4

Oh dear, it looks like last week's music project was too difficult to figure out after all. Well, maybe I'll just post the solution in a comment... :)

For the one today, I'll give a little hint: It's also (rather strongly) related to a movie...

Just a quick sketch and watercolours. - I had originally thought of something very different for today but that would have required a lot more time and I was at home for about 3 hours total today. Maybe next week.

136. Howling at the Star

Last night, I had invited some friends over to play our favourite werewolf game. I almost forgot to make a star... When everybody had left, I convinced myself to sit down and make some kind of wolf star even though it was already quite late - and then I realised that my internet connection had decided to break down. So, this post is a little late again, but that gave me the time to darken the background of the picture which made it look a lot better:

126. Music Monday #1

I've long since been planning to insert a little music star project into this project. There are plenty of songs about or at least mentioning 'stars' one way or another - so I'm going to fill Mondays with music related stars now. Here is the first one - and it simply had to be the first because this song was stuck in my head during the first weeks of my Year of Stars: Whenever I thought 'star' this song would start playing in my mind; no way to stop it.

I thought I might make those Music Mondays a little quiz (although the first one is quite obvious - at least for those who know the song^^). So, who can give me artist and title of this song:

Colouring will have to wait. Long day, it's late and I really need to catch up on some quality sleep. (By the time I colour this in I might even have a scanner and thus get a proper picture of it! :D)

77. Arwen's Evenstar

I have once more come to a star that does not really look like one. But it's called one - and this sketch of it is dedicated to my Sis who has recently brightened my days in many different ways:

We both share a great love for 'The Lord of the Rings' and basically everything that's Tolkien. I know she likes Arwen's necklace which is often referred to as 'Evenstar' (nevermind that it's a product of the films, not of the book^^). It proved more difficult to sketch than I thought, as it is practically just 'shiny' and hardly anything else... I might try a larger, more detailed drawing at some point.

(Background is darkened on the computer.)

For the record: Arwen does have a certain necklace with a white stone in the book, but that one appears only after the war is over and is being given to Frodo to protect him from the darkness should his injury trouble him.