#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.

[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]

[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)

[talentpiper11]

Work in Progress Wednesday

Hey all! Long time no WIPW. I moved recently and my creative juices have been running pretty low, but I’m settling in now.

I’ve been working (since before the move) on a series of small paintings for @monbons’s lovely fic, The Eternal Life of Baz Pitch. Each piece corresponds to a particular chronological point in the 42,000 word fic, highlighting inflection points in the titular character’s life experiences. Here, then, are the first 2 of a planned 5 painting set:

And a close up of the tiny Baz, pencil lead for scale:

And yes, all of the paintings are on old floppy disks! An explanation of my intentions for each after some no-pressure tags and hellos:

@monbons @rimeswithpurple @larkral @raenestee @youarenevertooold @simonsnowsfreckles @prettygoododds @roomwithanopenfire @ebbpettier and anyone else who’d like to post something but hasn’t been tagged yet!

Okay now, warning, spoilers for Eternal Life ahead:

The first piece shows Baz’s scene in the forest behind his childhood home, a variety of trinkets buried at the riverbed as his aunt had taught him. In the thin moonlight, the too-dark shadow of the darkness-called-Lamb stands in stark silhouette.

The second piece shows Baz sitting under a tree in a London park at dusk, reading. He is framed by peonies and gladioluses on either side. The odd-numbered peonies suggest love and a new beginning, but also hint at bad luck. The gladiolus variety I chose literally symbolizes “I will pierce your heart.”

[lifesteal-headcanons]

Coming back in with the omegaverse stuff,,,,,

Clown's scent is surprisingly sharp and strong for an Omega — even when people know and understand that people are, well, people and that you can't really neatly categorize humans, people still have biases and Clown's scent is a surprise contrast to the stereotypical idea of an Omega; where it is thought Omegas are soft and sweet, their scents following suit, Clown's is sharp and strong — maybe the smell of metal and gunpowder, something that can't be simply tolerated on a first sniff. You either love it or hate it — typically, people love it only when they know Clown intimately (Kaboodle, Branzy), otherwise people find it hard to breathe in. When he's angry the scent takes on a smokey note that makes people always subconsciously think a bomb is about to detonate when they're around him, and when he's happy it takes on a chocolate undertone that's hard to discern from the main components (the stronger the emotion the more the scent is released, the stronger it becomes, the more it overpowers subtle notes) yet Branzy can discern it very easily; Kaboodle has a harder time with it. No one else can really smell the chocolate undertone.

Branzy smells like redstone and gunpowder, but that's more bc of his engineer job than his scent — whenever he changes clothes and showers and cleans his job off of himself, Branzy actually smells kinda nice: like ocean spray, a day on the beach with a good Smirnoff on hand as you have a bonfire and build sand castles with friends. When he's angry there's a distinct smell of burnt trash that overpowers the ocean spray through disgust alone even though the note itself is weak (CLEAN THE OCEANS PEOPLE . /lh), yet when he's happy his scent takes on a caramel undertone; Branzy's and Clown's scents mixed up get ambivalent opinions, as ocean spray and metal/gunpowder sounds weird and nasty, but the chocolate/caramel of their inevitable happiness is quite nice to have around — when they're mixed, Clown's chocolate undertone is much more evident because of Branzy's caramel notes bringing it out better

Kaboodle smells like carrots and apples which is really dumb and cute idk. When she's angry she gains this onion undertone, to the point where if pissed off enough her scent can actually make people fucking cry, which is the ultimate little sister weapon to ever exist; when she's happy, though, she has a chocolate (see? easter bunny type beat?? Ayyy) undertone — kinda like Clown! Cute!!

Zam probably smells like flowers of some kind — I wanna say it'd be like. idk. aloes and asters??? OH OH OH AND CHAMOMILES mmm chamomile tea scent for Zam,,,, nice also idk bro I'm going off the flower meanings and not the scents. idk the scents of flowers bro,,,,,, when he's angry he smells like begonias and belledonas as well, and when he's happy he smells of hollys and hollyhocks; only Mapicc recognizes the subtle differences between each flower's scent and what each one means, as Zam taught him all of this at some point. Derap really wants to know but Zam doesn't feel like telling him ngl — it feels like something too intimate to simply share with others willy nilly, and besides he low-key likes it to be a kinda secret between him and Mapicc, that no one else knows the meaning of it...... Devotions save me, save me Devotions,,,,,,,,,

Mapicc's scent is really subdued bc 1) Beta and 2) he gives me blazeborn vibes and netherborns typically don't benefit much from scents bc of the overpowering heat and smell of lava in the nether. so; he does have a scent though — bc I'm sick over Devotions Duo I'm gonna say he ALSO smells like flowers: hollyhocks and gladioluses and chives. When he's angry he smells like gunpowder and metal, kinda like Clown; when he's happy though he simply smells like the sizzle of meat cooking in a pan, with all the aromatic spices wafting through the air — honestly Zam always feels low-key hungry when he cuddles with Mapicc due to this,,,,,,,

Derapchu has a surprisingly soft scent considering he's an Alpha — just like with Clown, he beats the stereotypes when it comes to his scent: petrichor or however you spell it and cut grass. When he's angry he smells like rotten wood and stagnant water, yet when he's happy he smells like rainy days and marshmallows bc why the hell not

Squiddo either has no scent or has a reeeallyyyyy faint scent, there's no in between — I'm unsure what this scent would be though.... thoughts?

ash's scent is strong and overpowering in impression alone — as in, it's one of those smells that kind of haunts you forever, and no matter what you do you can't forget it; it surely raises his ego to have a scent like that 🙄 /aff but I'm not really sure what that could be.... I low-key wanna say gasoline bc I like how it smells and having ash smell like gasoline sounds hilarious to me idk why — when he's angry he smells like smoke honestly, like a forest fire just spawned right beneath your nose and it becomes inescapable; a thing with Alphas and their scents is that when they're angry or going through their rut their scents are so overpowering and hard to get rid of from like, clothes and stuff — a scentmark is ALSO hard to get rid of bc of this, so when ash is angry and you're in like idk a surprisingly far yet still technically closeby distance to ash you WILL know he's angry. When he's happy, though, he smells like grapes bc I've run out of good scents to give these bitches and I think giving the embodiment of "fuck it we ball" grapes as a smell is kinda funny

Reddoons smells like cigar smoke and whiskey bc he's THE. EMBODIMENT of cishet rich boy swag in THE MEANEST. MOST AGGRESSIVE way imaginable even though he's said some reeeallyy sussy shit before; also, Alpha stereotype + that'd go great with ash's scent in the way people say that two characters get along like a house on fire affectionately. When he's angry he smells like burnt paper and burnt flesh bc I fucking say so, make that wet paper bag of a rich boy into a scary bitch whenever he's angry . When he's happy he smells like... honey! Surprisingly enough; perfectly mixes with ash's scent even tho both say to ABHOR the others' (they don't. they're just in a RIDICULOUSLY dramatic enemies to lovers 500k word min slowburn)

Jumper I think would smell like strawberries bc I fucking said so and also bc I just think it'd be cute :3 — when she's angry she smells like putrid and rotten fruits and kinda like Kaboodle, if angry enough her scent can and will make people cry. When she's happy she smells kinda like candied apples bc why the fuck not. let's get some whimsy up in this bitch going /silly

Minute has me stumped, but I think him smelling like coals and damp cave systems is kinda funny, so I'll probs go with that — when he's angry he smells like campfire smoke faintly enough that it is very easy to ignore (for some reason he gives me "silently angry" vibes??? idk I don't watch him) and when he's happy he smells like cider bc I want more whimsy going on in this place 👍👍👍

I also low-key think their scents would fluctuate slightly depending on who they're scenting/scentmarking with — for example, Zam smells low-key like edelweiss and heliotrope with Mapicc, yet smells like lilacs and marjorams with Derapchu, etc etc I'll come back to ramble bible-sized stuff at ur inbox whenever I decide to sit down and play with this part of omegaverse!LifeSteal,,,,,,,,,,,

so yea. omegaverse my beloved nobody could make me hate u,,,,,,

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[k0libra]

It's his day!!! Have a splendid celebration, Connor!🥰🎂

Decided to paint him with this month's birthstone (peridot) and birth flowers (gladioluses and poppies)

A bit of behind the scenes under the cut!

The drawing required 3 passes of sketches from me, which I do rarely for personal work. I wanted to give him my best, y'know!

One could see that across all 3 variations there's only 2 poppies - they're in the memory of Sixty. He's a tragic character don't @ me, Connor would honour him.

Also I really wanted to dress Connor up in transparent shirt again - a symbol of freedom and it's also very different from his usual "heavy" cyberlife uniform