#poppies
In Flanders fields the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row. That mark our place;
and in the sky. The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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Happy Remembrance Day!
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(Poppies, 1976/ Eyvind Earle; 1916-2000)
The Poppy Queen
I posted this my Insta but completely forgot about here. ^^;
About the piece below:
For once, someone isn’t sad!
This started off as a style experiment. After ditching the original paint, I spent some time studying Alphonse Mucha, Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg, and Yla Okudaira’s work for Mariah’s Utakata No Hibi (Ephemeral Days)
…which is coincidentally also a portrait. Maybe not the best thing to study from.
I wanted to focus on the eyes and thin line work of the face. The gaze stand out so much because of the contrast. It’s simple, but they’re large so it gives weight and notice against the smaller details. I usually put a lot of detail into eyes, but the soft and simple airbrushing works great against the hard lines.
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A commission for @the-astro-ambassadors , inspired by “Every heart a doorway”.
“Roadside Beauty” by Adam Swaine
Via Flickr:
Cabbage field in Great Massingham West Norfolk village
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
– Andre Gide
20/Jun/2016
The nasturtiums have grown a lot, there are some white spots on some leaves, I have to check if it’s a disease. Speaking of which, the aphids are totally gone thanks to the hand soap method! The rose has started opening two rosebuds, and there are two new closed buds, I’m so happy, it’s as if it’s saying “Thanks for taking care! I’m healty again, look at these flowers!”
Some days ago I planted some tagetes andstatice, I found seeds in a shop and even though it said they had to be planted a couple months ago, I tried and just two days after that there were some seedlings growing! Tagetes is the national flower of México, a friend that lives there gave me the idea.
There are some pics of the sweet willams (the tiny ones are the seeds that I sprinkled the day I put the bigger ones in that pot) and poppies, and the last one are the dahlias on their new pot. I divided them in two pots, I’m thinking about giving the small ones to someone since I don’t have that much space! About transplantation, the yellow callas that grew together in that single pot were in reality growing from just one tubercle, so I just put it in their original spot, there were 10 stems growing together, in the other callas I transplanted the biggest one had just 3…
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“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick
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