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Masterpost of art for the 4 Minute Window series by @cesperanza

With accompanying podfic by @revolutionaryjo, miniature art by @melllacita and a host of additional pieces by other fans, this series has been a staple for so many of us over the past 10 years (the first fic was posted in January 2015).

Please indulge me in the feels nostalgia of a round-up of all the art I made for the series over the years and if you’re so inclined, enjoy the wonderful stories all over again, and ring in the new year with a re-read.

Happy New Year, everyone!

For Endgame: 2014 - Part 24 of 4 Minute Window

by @cesperanza

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“I remember there was a time when I would look at you and I knew I wasn’t allowed to have you,” Bucky said.

For the 2022 instalment of the 4 Minute Window Advent Calendar:

Scenes from a Marriage: That Which Persists by @cesperanza

My 4 Minute Window art tag featuring every art I have made for this wonderful series over the last seven (7!!!) years!

Because that’s what we do: we go to the park, we sit on the rock

For At The Eleventh Hour, the annual Thanksgiving instalment of the wonderful 4 Minute Window series by @cesperanza 💜

My 4 Minute Window art tag!

“You lead,” Steve said, stepping into Bucky’s arms, and Bucky smiled and drew him in close, so that they were dancing cheek to cheek.

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For Scenes from a Marriage: Then and Now

the 4 Minute Window 2021 Advent Calendar by @cesperanza

my 4 Minute Window art tag

Happy New Year everyone!

Steve standing in line at Whole Bean Coffee

for @vaysh11’s German translation of 4 Minute Window by @cesperanza

my 4 Minute Window art tag

melllacita:

4 Inch Window: Chapter 15

In which I pay to tribute to @cesperanza’s 4 Minute Window in a slightly different way.

See intro here for more explanation. Chapter One here. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven. Chapter Twelve. Chapter Thirteen. Chapter Fourteen.

And while I am at it, allow me to thank you all so much for being so excited alongside me! Especially @albymangroves, @revolutionaryjo, @monicawoe and of course… @cesperanza

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Welcome back to the glass ceiling studio! Today, I’m working on making this room look like the room where Steve rolls up his sleeves and processes his feelings….

By the way, if you missed it, @cesperanza shared some thinking about the studio yesterday and what it means for Bucky to have made this for Steve. I swoon.

In thinking about how to set up the studio, I thought about what Steve would need in that room. A big work table with drawers. Some shelving for all the cans of paint and turpentine and such. Easels, we know he has. Some canvases. A cork board on the wall, maybe, for sketches or reference pieces for his commercial work. A footstool, maybe.

I could go on and on with quotes about the studio that I love, but instead, I’m going to name my Top Five Scenes That Take Place In Steve’s Studio:

5. Scenes from a Marriage: Captain America at Home: that Steve is regular comedian.

4. Four Minute Window: What was that surprise Bucky promised Steve would like? We find out through Natasha’s eyes.

3. Scenes from a Marriage: A Month of Sundays: Steve’s current WIP is especially evocative.

2. Scenes from a Marriage: The Kandinsky: Natasha explores and finds the resident house panther.

1. Scenes from a Marriage: The Hazy Days of Winter: bacon, paint, sex, @albymangroves’ to-die-for art (see below).

More photos below!

Keep reading

I would die for this studio ngl

melllacita:

cesperanza:

rosemarysealavender:

melllacita:

4 Inch Window: Chapter 13

In which I pay to tribute to @cesperanza’s 4 Minute Window in a slightly different way.

See intro here for more explanation. Chapter One here. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven. Chapter Twelve.

And while I am at it, allow me to thank you all so much for being so excited alongside me! Especially @albymangroves, @revolutionaryjo, @monicawoe and of course… @cesperanza

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Today, an interlude:

While the structure and the furniture get all the attention, the accessories are what make a project like this. So, today, let me show you how I am making some important accessories for Steve and Bucky’s apartment, such as books.

A low bookcase was filled with the same sort of books Steve had had in his DC apartment—history, political biography—but there was a new element here, too. Fiction: stacks of cheap, colorful paperbacks—well, hello there, Sergeant Barnes. - Scenes from a Marriage: The Kandinsky

So, to make dollhouse-sized books, I decided to do something I really don’t like to do: purposefully damage books.

Still, sometimes books have Been Through It and need to retire. For example, this 2005 Let’s Go Guide to New Zealand was 1) out of date and 2) had no cover, making it the perfect piece to gain a little new life.

(Also, this took me back, both to my LOTR fandom days and to the trip to Australia and New Zealand that I took my grandmother on in 2005, which is why I have the book. A very happy memory.)

So. Let’s make books.

1. Find yourself a paperback book that has seen better days, as well as a craft knife, some tweezers, some glue, and some colored cardstock.
2. Carefully remove any remaining cover.
3. Take a thin section of the book that fits your desired specs, and carefully pull it away, while maintaining the binding in the small section.

4. Using a ruler and craft knife, cut off a miniature book-width piece.

5. Use the glue and cardstock to put a cover on it.

My cutting board is a holy mess after everything I have put it through the last several months. I like it that way. Creation is messy.

And worth it! Sometime next week I’ll talk about how I made the lamp, too. I love how it looks with the bookcase made darker.

And the framed photo…well, that’s all @albymangroves! (fun fact: my photo printer refused to go any smaller, so it’s big for the space. Which is fine, because it’s SO PRETTY.)

THIS IS AMAZINGGGGG and there are more posts EVERY! DAY!

OK, the book thing is just *MIND BLOWN* levels of clever, I honestly can’t believe it.  Absolutely totally fucking adorable.  Also of course that picture would be big, a happy memory so pride of place and all that. Personally I don’t think they’d think about snapshots as pictures–which is actually (*cough*) one of my pet peeves now that I think of it, which is when writers give characters an ahistorical relationship to images.  I could go on about it but won’t*, and the thing is–you do you, everyone should write what makes them happy!–but I bet I’m not the only person here who’s of a generation where you went to a photography studio to have formal pictures taken to commemorate big events, not just weddings.  That’s all been supplemented mostly by cheap cameras and now phone cameras and ubiquitous imagery, but that’s very five minutes ago in the history of the world.  Regular people really didn’t have cameras until later than you’d think (cameras were expensive things that required skill and likely you developed your own film) and the quality of the cameras people got in the 1950s - 1990s mostly sucked if you weren’t a photography nerd. There is an interesting subculture of gay men particularly buying Polaroid cameras–self-developing pictures that come out of the camera, guys–in the late ‘60s and after even though they were very expensive because of course you wouldn’t want to send any pictures of your gay life to be developed because you’d get arrested.  Polaroids also good for sexy pictures for same reason. But terrible quality and fall apart.  Anyway that’s way after Bucky and Steve’s time, and all this to say that likely Bucky and Steve would rarely have been photographed in the pre-war era, and if Bucky was its because his Ma would have taken him to a studio in fancy clothes, and they’d print the picture big, and so I am not at all surprised that Natasha would give them a photo this big as a present. 
*this was me not going on about it, so imagine

Yes! I love it.

This whole project is making me teary this year, and @melllacita’s astounding model of Steve and Bucky’s home at the Coney Island Design & Construction has been such a mind bogglingly amazing addition. Every day I’m looking at your updates Mel and just smiling at the screen in delight at how wonderful fandom is to give each other gifts like this. Thank you for including my 4 Minute Widow art in your Four Inch Window!!

Sketch from a Parade: Thanksgiving 2021

For Ten Kinds of Grateful, another wonderful 4 Minute Window story, by @cesperanza - PART 18!!

My 4 Minute Window Art Tag