Pinterest and paintings

I love collecting my favourite paintings on Pinterest; I could just stare at them endlessly. I didn’t get into Pinterest until recently but when I did get into it I really got into it—what I like about it that’s different from Tumblr is that when you collect all your favourite images in categories like that you start to see themes of things you like that you might not have noticed before. (At least, I get the feeling that a lot of the pictures I like are all similar in some way; maybe other people are not quite so prone to getting fixated on certain things, i.e. clawfoot baths, white interiors, radiators, windows—usually with a desk nearby, a particular kind of cursive print, the colour of icebergs and glaciers, peachy-pink, peonies and garden roses, ballet dancers in arabesque positions, food decorated with rainbow sprinkles, and paintings of Paris street scenes in different types of light and seasons, as are the recurring themes on my Pinterest...)

Here are a few of the paintings I’ve fallen in love with recently . . .

1. Édouard Leon Cortès; 2, 3 & 4. Eugène Galien-Laloue; 5. Antoine Blanchard; 6. Luigi Loir; 7. Andrew Wyeth; 8. Edward Hopper; 9. Jules René Hervé; 10. Jean-François Raffaëlli