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Brampton Go Station #2 2018 The main station in Brampton, a city in Ontario Canada that's slowly growing.One of the things that caught my eye was the original building of the station is still up after 100+ years with the new additions on the right side.
I remember that one of the reason the collector bought this piece was because it felt dream like, especially without the fence on the right side. The station is on a slight hill which almost looks like its floating when you remove the city buildings on the right.
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Union Station #8 2018. Oil on Wood 10" x 8" an earlier piece from 2018, generally I use the smaller pieces to test things out and with this one I wanted to see how texture changed the overall painting. I like the texture in the cool sky but I think it was a little too strong in comparison to the rest of the painting.
I think overall I think the painting was succesful and a great learning experience.
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First paint through of this piece. It's another Wilson station painting and it's only a coincidence that two pieces are the same station lol. (Subway station in Toronto Canada) This first stage is generally to get base colours down and get a general light direction. Drawing errors get fixed in this stage.
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Wilson Station # 4, 11" x 14" Oil on Wood. Painting Wilson station in Toronto Canada.
One of the pieces currently at the Kingsway Lambton Charity Art show from March 25 - April 3 (online only). A portion of all sales will go towards local charities. Link below and in bio☺️🎉🎊
https://kingswaylambtonartshow.ca/collections/diogo-pinheiro
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Union Station#9 ,11" x 14" oil on wood. A 2019 oil painting of Union Station, one of the main stations in Ontario Canada during its never ending construction cyles lol. Interestingly since painting this piece they’ve added a new skyscraper in the background and a part of the station in the painting has been demolished and reconstructed.
I can probably repaint this exact composition and have it look like different painting which is one of the things I like about the subject I work with, it changes quite a bit over time.
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Random Pjo Meme(2 of ??)
Me and my homies every time someone strips down nico’s entire character to “gay” or “edgy”:
(Look, I get that nico wallows quite a bit in self-pity, and that his homosexuality is an important part of his character, but for god’s sake, can we acknowledge that he was genuinely well-written [atleast in pjo and hoo, that is])
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DISCLAIMER: This reflects my personal opinion. I don't intend to offend anyone.
(I don’t hate Bianca, but I genuinely don't understand why she gets so much traction when there are other side characters who don't get as much and actually have some substance to them. Just let Rick's plot device no.157382 sleep peacefully in her fridge, please.)
Friendly reminder that Nico Di Angelo as a child, loved pirates and Greek mythology.
Imagine a 10 year old Nico getting excited that the Greek gods exist, then finding out that he gets to learn how to sword fight just like pirates do. (He was so excited he ended up cutting his leg resulting in a scar)
And now imagine all that excitement disappear when he learns that he can never show his big sister what he learnt.
<33
Now I'm also curious 🧐 imma start looking 🕵️
someone needs to write a fic about meanwhile back at camp in titan’s curse bc Nico and the campers is funny to me
has anyone written this? is this a thing? if anyone’s read a good one could you point me in the right direction?
I Want to Take Time to Talk about What I Love about the Third Books in Rick Riordan’s Quintologies
The third books in Rick Riordan’s quintologies all create massive paradigm shifts within their respective series. In all of the third installments the stakes become real and the heroes are faced with decisions that alter the courses of the series and change the tone moving forward. I want to talk about each individual book and express my thoughts on how they change the status quo of the series and characters as well as what I liked about what was done and how I think they stand apart from the first two entries and set up the rest of the series.
First up is the Titan’s Curse. Many people, myself included, remember this book fondly because this is where Percy Jackson and the Olympians got serious. There were hints here and there about how dark the series could become, but no death stuck until this book and the deaths present carried lasting effects as the series continued. Bianca’s death affected Nico from this point up until the Hidden Oracle where he had finally made peace with what had happened. And even after the quest was over there is a hanging sense of melancholy and foreboding of the losses that had happened and the ones yet to come. This is where it hit that the trials would only get harder and more emotional from here. I really liked that the deaths in this book weren’t cheap and that they weren’t reversed. Bianca’s death had the biggest impact on the story moving forward of any of the death in any of Rick’s series (we’ll have to wait an see the ramifications of Jason’s death, but I think it may surpass this one in terms of personal impact on the characters). Zoe’s death is, in my opinion, the most emotional death in this book and really set the tone for the sacrifices that will have to be made in the future.
The Mark of Athena signalled the start of the seven questing together. This book gave us Annabeth’s solo quest, the beginning of greek-roman relations falling apart, and the iconic fall into Tartarus. This book probably changed the status quo of the series less than the other two books because the stakes were already built up in the two books leading up to this installment, but this book succeeds at building up to the following installments and showing the heroes both what they will have to endure and the trials they will have to face. Unlike the Titan’s Curse there isn’t a sense of mystery and foreboding because you know what trials the heroes will have to face moving forward. We know Percy and Annabeth will have to trek through Tartarus to get to the doors of death and we know that the rest of the seven will have to meet them on the other side, but it’s the fact that this is how it will play out that surprises us. It succeeds because this is the first time Gaea’s threat becomes real, where things don’t work out for the heroes and there isn’t some sense of momentary safety. It ends with the heroes in their most precarious situation, Annabeth and Percy are plummeting into Tartarus and the rest of the seven guided by Nico must find the doors of death, both of which are built up to be the most difficult tasks the half-bloods will have to face. I believe this book does a great job of paying off on the stakes set up in the previous two books and while there isn’t a sense of loss for characters who died it gives us a sense of loss over the fates of Percy and Annabeth, two characters we have followed since the beginning, with the knowledge their suffering is far from over.
The Burning Maze completely changed the tone of the trials of Apollo series and in my opinion for the better. I didn’t really like the Hidden Oracle. I found the Dark Prophecy to be good, but not anything special compared to Rick’s other books. The Burning Maze blew me out of the water. This book gave us the most radical shift in tone and changed the main players within the story permanently. Piper and Apollo change the greatest throughout the course of the story and I was captivated by how much they changed within the span of one book. Apollo, throughout the course of this book, truly learns the pain and suffering demigods go through because of the gods and by the end had resolved to remember what it’s like to be human. This is such a radical shift from the arrogant self-centered character we were introduced to in the Hidden Oracle. There were deaths that changed the characters and I hope carry through and guide the characters actions going forward. I really liked that Grover, Jason, and Piper all came back for this book and it was a really good move on Rick Riordan’s part. While a lot of people are mad Jason died in this series and not the heroes of olympus I really liked the decision. I liked Jason in HoO and having him die after surviving all the trials he was put through by being brought into yet another quest and having him stand up for Apollo in HoO it made it have more meaning to Apollo specifically. It also helped to emphasize the message that the gods are unfair. Jason was put through trial after trial and in the end it was Apollo and the god’s mistakes that did him in and makes Apollo realize that he has to remember what it means to be human in the mythological world. Piper was really compelling in this book and the development she was given in this book alone put her in my top 5 favorite characters in Rick’s mythological series.
PCOS TTC
I’m late by 4 days. It means nothing when you’re PCOS but this time it’s more complicated than all that.
I bled for 8 weeks and they gave me a pill to stop it. When you’re TTC it feels like a betrayal to take something like that, but it was making me so ill something had to be done.
The hope was it would “reset” me, maybe even make me ovulate. What it did wasgive me a period within the next month. One month to the day it made the 8 week bleed stop. It’s the first time in forever i’d had an on time period and it gave me hope. We’re a month on, i feel off, like i should be on a period, but yeah nothing.
It’s complicated because we finally saw the fertility doctor afew weeks ago and he gave me the very long and daunting list of what is going to happen to me.
Surgery being the most frightening.
But first things first. They have a pill that will force me to ovulate, make me super fertile. The problem is you have to start it after your next bleed. Being PCOS the problem here is an obvious one.
So first they may have to force a bleed. More pills.
All of this could have started straight after that visit but there was a complication. My partner spilled his sperm count sampke when he did it. He had to redo it, so we now have a delay of two weeks and then a further delay while they get a count.
The fact that this fell during the time i should have come on again was a huge inconvenience and hence why any delay is both bad and also good.
Well see what happens when, but it means so much that this super fertility pill works because the next stage is exploratory surgery to take a look at my tubes and, while they’re in there, ovarian drilling.
It terrifies me.
My friend went to the same fertility clinic i do and they finally had a lil baby girl called Robyn. I made her this to show how happy i am for them. And i am happy for them but making this hit me harder than I expected. I pretty much cried every minute i worked on it.
I am genuinely thrilled they got their baby. I just wish we could have ours.
