#gladioluses

[letmeinimafairy]

The making of painted stones

Well, a few times I was asked to show the process of miniature paintings on stones, and here is my first attempt to capture and explain it. Warning - I only have my phone's camera at my disposal, so the quality is not very good.

Firstly - an idea for the image. Every stone has something in its pattern that can be a starting point for developing an imagery. The stone I picked for this one is a beautiful Picasso jasper, and in this case I was looking for a stone for a specific idea I've already had in mind. Spontaneous improvisation dictated by the stone's pattern is also great but I decided to pick something more definitive for better illustrating the process.

This jasper's pattern already has outlines that can be developed into a landscape without painting it over too much. I don't like it when stones are just mindlessly covered by slapping a random image on it, ignoring the colours, textures and patterns.

Here's the idea - ruins of an amphitheatre overgrown with red gladioluses. I know, I know, but I'm very interested in the initial mystical sacrificial background of gladiators. So here it is, arena covered in red, swords in the sand, but it's finally quiet.

Before we start, a stone must be varnished - minerals are porous, and lacquer smoothes its surface. I paint with tempera - most artists who work in lacquer miniatures use oils, but tempera allows quicker process, which is important for me. I'm autistic and my executive dysfunction makes working with oils difficult - my sudden bursts of activity won't match with drying timings and such. So, tempera for me.

Starting with sketching the outlines of the ruins and painting our light source, the sun and red clouds. I'm trying to work with a palette that the stone already has and make the painting as harmonious as possible.

Erasing auxiliary lines as we continue.

Done with the first layer - the walls and the sky. After the paint dries, I apply varnish (I use Novol clearcoat, car varnish - it's very durable). There can be as many layers as you need.

Now - the flowers and details.

After the painting is finished, it'll need several layers of varnish. And some fine sandpaper (1500) in-between the finishing layers for better grip.

And here it is! time to think abou a necklace for this one.

I'm not sure how useful I can be and what aspects you would like to know, so feel free to ask. I'm not sure I can make a good enough video with my current phone, so this'll have to wait. I tried to skip all the musings about ideas and finding stories, but whatever. And the time needed for work - I don't know. There was a month-long pause in the making of this one, due to a couple of emergencies that knocked me down for some time, and it's not easy for me in general due to my mental state - sometimes I can make a painting in two days, sometimes it takes years, nothing is certain with me, especially now. But well, here's what I do.

[miyakkenjii]

so i had an idea, and since im forcing myself to not touch my digital drawing stuff i drew it out traditionally but horribly because i cannot color traditionally

basically it’s Four holding flowers that represent the colors and they look all happy and shit, the flowers are Roses (for Courage), Lavender (Calmness), Liliums (Innocence), and Gladioluses (Strength and also Courage)

its really easy to guess what flower resembles what color, at least for Vio and Red but i’ll say it anyways, the roses are for green, lavender for vio, lilium for red, and gladiolus for blue

i may post a colored drawing of it (may or may not depends if i still like the idea when no longer sick as hell) and i’ll post the sketch(?) of it later because i am ready to go straight to bed

[dandiest-art]

Birth Month Flowers

Get them -> here <-

Other months here

July - Waterlilies

August - Gladioluses

September - Morning Glories

October - Marigolds

November - Chrysanthemums

December - Narcissus

[squid-is-typing]

Gladiolus — strength of character, faithfulness, integrity

[dimeadozencows]

HEAVY TF2 TUMMY ‼️‼️‼️

I CANT BELIEVE YOU ANSWERED MY POST GSJDHDJ THANK U Here you go:

I love him so much i did a scrapbooking about it

Close ups:

@heavytf2tummy enjoy medic👍🏽❤️

[lonelymagpies]

So, out of the blue, I remembered of my 2020 crush Gladiolus Amicitia and now I’m down bad again.

[terubakudan]

JOI 4 Moodboards/Phone BGs

Combi-version below the cut:

[graviconscientia]

I wanted to create a little bouquet, to speak for me. It's a shame that my mind is a little too fried to remember any meanings... A little nosegay of weeds is the best I can manage, it seems.

[lvstharmony]

[heres-to-all-that-is-mine]

Spent all day yesterday making my submission for the 21st,,, so. I’ll make two today! Yesterday’s and today’s :)

[glitchdecay]

sometimes i think about how in two completely different genres of rpgs, two wildly different pairs of siblings end up with completely plausible themed names even though the gladiolus is technically an iris but colloqually called "sword lily"

please ignore the noct on the right lol

(names for both sibling pairs are in image descriptions!!)

despite the different etymologies i think one is as valid as the other and the names are beautiful regardless

[oliver-ashcroft-documents]

So, I’ve been having fun writing (when I can ;-;) with Apis over on their NSFW blog, so I decided to make a little art piece for them and some of Asterius’s court! The image is under the cut and suggestive, so be mindful of that.

Enjoy! :D

So, the lovely folks in @the-princes-court court are: Eric from @threeoclockads Yancy from @late-night-cabaret Merrick from @merrick-of-violet And of course Oliver from here :)

[brachiobrutality]

flowers for alenoah !!

they're supposed to be peonies & snapdragons (noah) + gladioluses & red dahlias (alejandro)

though idk how well you can tell w/ those petals lmao ‼️

my personal fav:

[fischlich]

what flower/plant would you associate with BSAR?

i did not. mean to take 10 thousand years to answer this. why did it take so long? i couldnt decide and it was Haunting me. what plant fits BSAR best... it kept me up at night

planty wise usually i just put misc moss and ferns and shrubs but i really wanted to play around with flower symbolism so i decided to choose gladiolus and asphodel! (chosen with the help of my friends bc i was hopeless at deciding on my own lol) Gladiolus because they (according to google) represent strength of character and moral integrity, which i thought would be fitting since the Nation frames BSARs as divine tools of liberation. Asphodel too however because (again according to google) they represent death and mourning, so i thought it would be fun to include them as a reference to BSAR actually being nothing more than tools of death and destruction in a senseless war. i put way too much thought into this. anyways heres a sketchy doodle of 777 my favorite bussard all plantied up with gladioluses and asphodels. dont look to hard at the gladioluses though i got really lazy

[v-o-i-d-p-u-n-k]

The permit office guy with Gladioluses (from Skizz and Scar)