Kyrie (eleison) 2020, 10x20-ish mixed media on masonite Media, in no specific order: Watercolor, acrylic, acryla gouache, gold and silver leaf, gold mica flake, lace
Done for @capri-bigbang2k19
According to the date on my phone, I finished the sketch in late August. I finished not too long ago, making this my first painting of 2020. How fitting, given this piece includes a lot of firsts: mounting a piece on masonite with matte medium as an adhesive; using squeeze bottles and blunt needles to do fine lining/piping (I need to go thinner,) and making shell gold for the purpose of being liquid gold paint (a technique adapted from how Russian icon painters make shell gold, which is both time-consuming and kind of fun.) I also used matte medium as more adhesive for the lacing after looking into how collage and assemblage artists make their pieces stick without fear of glue breaking or yellowing.
I’d visit this intermittently along with working on bees for my local town - it became a form of therapy in which I was allowed to “get real fucking weird,” as some professionals say.
The dried grass, camellias, roses, sweet peas and baby’s breath are a reference to my writing contribution to the Captive Prince Big Bang, which needs to be worked on oops, but I got until Saturday.
Title is from the Christian liturgy, but also a reference to my album of 2019: Lingua Ignota’s Caligula, specifically If the Poison Won’t Take You… (TW: loud music, references to domestic abuse.)
my fic for the 2k18 capri big bang
Damianos, Captain of The Egeria and the Ellosean Sea.
Damen was a steadfast pirate with as much heart as devotion, as dedicated to his cause as he was to the sea. He was stronger than most, more loyal than any, and each new voyage filled him with something inimitable that no one else could understand, aside for perhaps his crew.
Every expedition was different, varying in length and difficulty, never to be predetermined. At the end of each there was time to recuperate, a chance for everyone to spend it as they saw fit before returning to reality. For Damen there was his private area on the rocks by the water where he found quiet, serenity, and a way to always be close to the ocean.
Until one night, he found something else, something new. An unearthly creature unlike any other, with a beauty that rivaled anything he had ever seen.
It would appear that mermaids were more than just a myth.
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lovely art by @jesibeans
Commission for a friend of mine, herself and Beatrice from the Umineko series. Had fun with the gold paste and doing abstract shojo-roses~.
Already posted on AO3, but why not here too, hallo
Allister is Cae’s, Tanner and p much everyone else are mine.
Tanner walked around; grateful the numbers were few and far between. The battle had been fairly won, as far as a battle in a war could be. Silverfish walked with the grace she only mustered for Tanner, a fine silver grey mare with hair in the same color family but several tints lighter than her master’s. He dismounted her, taking his sword to behead and dismember the bodies. Enemy, ally; it didn’t matter. It was bad enough to fight an enemy you already defeated.
It was worse to kill a friend you had to bury again.
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And finished! I'll have this #sailormoon #watercolor print ready for #realmscon soon! :D see y'all there!
Oh boy I need to sleep but tomorrow I will finish them both if it kills me #artistsoninstagram #artistsontumblr #jesibeans #wip #acrylic #javelina #skull
Tired of socializing, time to draw #wip #sanjapan #sailormoon #umineko
I think I'll call #Neptune done #wktd #weknowthedevil #drawlloween
I will no longer be using tumblr to write and post my content. Why?
Because I sometimes write adult content. Not only sexual content, but violence and other adult themes. Why do I write such things?
Because I have written them for years. Because, as a writer, life is not all rainbows and butterflies. I write books and stories about humans. There is sex, but also themes of death, violence and sadness. This is part of human nature.
Tumblr’s full-ban on adult content is one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever seen. This is their way of trying to clean up their self-created mess that will drive away large portions of their base, because “adult content” is more than just the annoying porn-bots.
Adult content, as we have seen, has hit things such as “Chronic pain” blogs but also blogs that are LGBT+ friendly. I’m queer and I have a chronic illness.
While my run on tumblr has been long, I am willing to move on from it. I lived through Strikethrough on LJ. I will survive this.
My friends, my fellow content creators, my readers, and anyone else who sees this— don’t delete your tumblrs. Leave them as skeletons. Allow tumblr to cannibalize itself and only leave the bones behind.
This really is Strikethrough 2.0.
Stay calm, and begin to back up everything.
Good luck, my loves.
YOU GUYS HOLY SHIT OMGHEJEHEUSIBWHWIDKDHDYSIWOSK
So sometime ago I commissioned one of my absolute best friends and one of my favourite traditional artists @jesibeans to do a lil piece of Misery bc reasons mind your business.
Anyway it was stuck in mail hell for a month bc US -> Canada is a shitshow rn BUT SHE'S HERE AND SHE'S BEAUTIFUL IM SCREAMING. She was packaged so well and Im terrified to take her out of the plastic without a frame ready to go lol.
Pleeease please please check out Jes' other work and consider supporting her in anyway you can. She's a bean and deserves so much more love 💞 These photos are shit and cant capture all the beautiful metallics and shiny boiz in these water colours 😭😭😭😭
Check Jes' Ko-fi here!
Check Jes' IG here!
Also my cat Reuben was there for emotional support.
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