Cyclamen Canvas - Blog Posts
Seven
December 31, 2024 Acrylic on canvas
Finally finished this painting!! Hey, got it done before 2025 at the very least 😉
Only took about 30 minutes to finish it up because it was just cleanup and painting the edges.
Moniker for this painting went from "coloured puke" to "seven" because when asking my family what the meaning behind this painting was we realized that there are seven characters here, which could be indicative of the seven deadly sins. Ofc that was unintentional, but was a cool coincidence.
Non-unanimously, the sins were identified as:
Pride - Green / ???
Wrath - Orange
Lust - Red
Gluttony - Yellow
Envy - Green / Pink
Greed - ???
Sloth - Purple
The blue guy didn't really fit any of them 😭
I asked my family what they thought the meaning of this one because they'd incessantly bugged me about what the meaning behind another painting I was working on was.
Still need to varnish it, but I'll get to that later
"W" Painting
December 25 - 26, 2024 Acrylic on Canvas
This painting has an actual name, but I'm sticking with the moniker " 'W' Painting" (as dubbed by my family/friends because there's a W sticker on the top left corner) until I actually finish it.
Painting I frantically did because I was having a Terrible Time and when that happens you paint little guys having a Terrible Time.
Wanted to finish this before I moved over the spring/summer for coop but just didn't have the time for it, so it won't get done until 2025 fall the earliest.
I look at this and realise there's Anatomy Problems / a fundamental difference in the flow/positioning of the characters between the initial sketch and where I'm at now. There's no turning back now, and I'm still happy with what I have, still. Just have to figure out that damned arm when I go to finish this. But it's also a fun loose painting, anatomy doesn't have to be flawless (call me a part of the 'it's my style' club 😛). Pro tip when drawing characters interacting --uhh refine the sketch before rendering 🤠👍👍👍👍👍👍
This blog functions as my chronological art archive/diary.
To keep it tidy I do not have asks open nor do I reblog others' posts.
Bug me however you like on @flowerspeakz. There you can also find a lot of my yappery and wips/random doodles of mine that aren't deserving of a formal post here.
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Title | Media, AU | Character(s) | Song Title by Song Artist
Longform Month XX, 20XX
Shortform Month, 'XX - Explanation 1
Shortform Month, 'XX - Explanation 2
Time: XX:XX Medium(s)/Art program(s) used: X + Y on Z, U + V on W
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August 11, 2024
Another painting I did at the cafe. Used the metallic white as my base, and then sketched a fish skeleton on it using my silver metallic pen. Then smoothed out and fixed the forms with a damp brush.
I like the effect using the metallic-on-metallic paints give. Depending on the angle you're looking at it you can either clearly see the fish, or see nothing at all. I think it's neat
Metallic acrylic paint on canvas
August 11, 2024
Little sparkly ocean painting i did at a cafe with friends. Underpainted using a mix of metallic white and yellow, so when the painting catches the light it sparkles ✨. Can't really see it in the photos though 💔
Acrylic paint on canvas
January 19, 2024 - March 27, 2024
This was a painting me and my ex started way back when. I ended up taking it to my dorm and working on it periodically over the above timespan. I wanted to get it done before the end of the semester. I got pretty close, but there's still a few things I've got to do to finish up this painting.
It's a fun piece. I like nonsense things like this because there's no rules. Any problems/things that look wrong just add to the piece 😘😚
Was me figuring out colour theory- mainly just not shading with black to get more dynamic shadows or whtvr
Acrylic paint and india ink on canvas
February 2024
Little peacock painting I did one night in my dorm. Gotta finish this someday - need to fix the values and might change up the colours and make it more neon
Acrylic paint on canvas
February 2024
Skull I painted in my dorm one night.
Acrylic paint on canvas
January 4, 2024
Three tiny little paintings I did during a paint night with friends. Played around with underpainting and letting the chosen colour shine through.
Acrylic paint and india ink on canvas
The Art Proposal | 2/3
December 1-30, 2022
This was supposed to be a themed trilogy, but I, like always, did not really have a theme in mind. I was kind of going for 'where art and technology/science meet' but it was really shoehorned. This was going to be a beautiful piece symbolizing medicine w elements of the staff of asclepius w the snake and her arm.
Making this was really, really annoying. I hadn't done a multi canvas piece since the cardinal (which was five years prior) so the idea was I go all out for this one (bad idea, never got finished). I did really like the style and the overall composition of the piece, but there's a 0.00001% chance I ever go back to this because of how big of a task it'd be.
First of all, making the wooden frame just to hold the canvases in the right position was terrible. I made the spacing smaller because I didn't want to lose details, but because it was so thin it broke 24/7. Don't even talk to me about the nailing/gluing process.... horrible.
Painting it was also a feat, because it took up so much space and I had to dance around the pieces constantly.
I got it to a place where it was finished enough, and then I was done with it.
(also I changed the position of the legs in the painting to make it more anatomically correct, but it ruined the silhouette)
The canvases still exist in my house, but the frame is long gone.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Spring Plant Trilogy | Ti plant, Algaonema, Caladium
April 12, 2021 - August 22, 2021
I wanted to do a whole four seasons of plant trilogies, where each one had a different colour theme that fit the season. This was for spring.
Unfinished, and idk if I'll ever get around to finishing it.
!!! I found my old notes on the chosen plants for each season. !!! This ups the chance that I'll return to this series.
Autumn:
Croton plant
Orange coleus
Flapjack
Winter:
Poinsettia
Blue hosta
Peacock fern
Acrylic paint on canvas
Wayne Gretzky
April 16, 2021
Painting of a hockey card I was doing for my brother in-law. I worked on this for like a day and then gave up. Drawing people was not my specialty and I'm still bad at making a drawing of a person look like its real-life counterpart, so making this was frustrating.
Acrylic paint on canvas
December 21, 2020 - December 22, 2020
Birch tree forest I made for my sister at her request. It's been in her living room for forever ❤️
insta notes:
looks better irl 😒☺️
18x24" camvahs. will burn unless u get varnish again :D
8 1/2 hrs in total. 2 days. 6 non-consecutive hrs then the 2.5hrs consecutively the next day. 8 trees, the highlight/orange and the border=2.5 hrs work time.
+~20-30 mins (not including drying time) for varnish. 8 1/2 =/= varnished.
18x25 = ~9hrs (w this style)
Acrylic paint on canvas
September 18, 2020
Another glitch effect painting. Had a lot of fun with this one. Started it over the summer but didn't end up finishing it until school had started.
Got permission to use this as a submission for one of my art intro assignments. Don't remember what the prompt was.
Out of Touch
August 14, 2020
Another quick little painting
Acrylic paint and varnish on canvas
August 14, 2020
Quick little painting ❤️
Acrylic paint and varnish on canvas
August 6, 2020
This is a canvas that i've painted a tree on 3 times. A whole repaint what was on it before to see my improvement. This is definitely the most drastic change. The first two was a tree centered in the canvas w leaves surrounded by green grass. I wish i'd taken pics of them 😭. Oh well
Painted this when me and my cousin went paint crazy at my house. Converted the table into a lil paint studio ❤️
(the pictures say it was painted in august, but I swear I thought I painted this the apr/mar of 2020)
Acrylic and varnish on canvas
~August 2020
Little painting using the glitch effect. It was trending on tiktok/social medias, but I remember getting incessantly annoyed at how people weren't doing it correctly.
Want to do another one of these sometime but with more colours so that the glitch effect/illusion ¿? actually works
Acrylic paint on canvas
Summer Plant Trilogy | Monstera, Bird of Paradise, Fan Palm Leaf
~June 6, 2020
Series of paintings I did for my sister.
Acrylic paint on canvas
~June 2020
Another painting I did that utilizes the peeling canvas trick.
I wasn't too happy with this when I finished, but I really like it now. It's just a fun little piece.
Acrylic paint, mod podge, newspaper and varnish on canvas
~May 2020
Unfinished painting that was supposed to mock an inspirational quote.
Was going to consist of three canvases and overall be a very vertical painting.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Traditional wips
March 12, 2020
insta notes:
sketches/first pass for my traditional stuffs too lazy to get all my digital wips together but there's a lot of them (~7?)
I'm hoping to get the spring plants done this week and hopefully get the fall/winter ones sketched after that gonna focus on the bg and flats of the bird for the hawk painting 4 now. I'll limit myself from the details until the frame for the wings is thought out/the rig is made #5 is a mixed media thingy + maybe 3d drawing cos i havent doen anything like that in a while
wanna get the castle bnw detailing done today
hawk - started apr 11 ti plant, #5 - apr 12 algaonema, caladium - apr 8
Well lookie here, look at how much I lied. hoping to get the spring plants done? What an absolute buffoon I am. There is one success story here, though - Rosewood and Iris, surprisingly. Everything else are failures.
Acrylic paint on canvas | Pencil on watercolour paper
The Babs | Tyrian, Duke, Marine
~March 2020
I completely forgot that I made this, until I randomly found it in my parents' room.
Again, tentatively put in the timeline. It must have been recently after their creation, since it's just the three of them and the hourglass was a feature that didn't stick for long.
(plus this painting's concept sketch = is in the same sketchbook as my first drawings for them)
Acrylic paint on canvas
Art Exhibit
March 7, 2020 - December 21, 2021
A community center in my town lets people under 18 showcase their art for free in their halls. I took a stab at applying and was accepted.
The exhibit wasn't supposed to last as long as it did, but covid lockdowns hit shortly after we installed everything and the persistent lockdowns kept on pushing back the pickup date. This means next to no one saw any of the art, but I was fine with that. I kept on getting really worried abt ppl destroying the art.
Wait! I'm Camouflaging Right Now!
Skkkrrt Skkkrt Ma Dusa
Oh shoot it's Nanny McPhee
Honey, your pelvic's showing again
Hard Drive
Out of Place
Cardinality
~February 2020
I don't remember painting this at all, really. Just vague impressions. I actually like the painting, but ig I didn't like it back then cos I put that huge tear in the middle.
Idky I took the canvas off of its wooden skeleton for this painting.
Acrylic paint on canvas
Out of Place
January 2020
Cute painting I made with a decent amount of 3D elements. The shapes themselves are 3D because of the acrylic. Although the acrylic I used bordered on too soft-bodied for this purpose. It dried decently flat and there are holes littered throughout,,, idk why that is. It's not terrible, I just needta keep that in mind if I ever do smth like this again if I want better results.
This piece was rlly big so I did it on the floor. I had a lot of moments of getting angry at my dogs for being stupid and walking on it.
The 3D peeling away was achieved with newspaper and a lot of mod podge. That part's taken quite the beating since this painting was made, and a couple of the pieces have fallen off.
I like the contrast in this piece, and painting the little revealed part was my favourite part of the project.
Acrylic paint, newspaper and mod podge on canvas
Hard drive
December 30, 2019
Hard drive painting I did over the winter break. Was fun
Acrylic paint and varnish on canvas
~October 2018
Painting I did of the imok world. Never finished it
Acrylic paint on canvas
Cardinality
2017
Multi-canvas painting I did. I don't know what gave me this idea, but it was crazy. Can't believe I made this back in 2017.
Made spacers out of foam boards from the dollar store so that the canvases would be held in the final configuration during painting.
Bought my first ever non dollar store paint from DeSerres for this project. Still have quite a few colours (namely the red 😍)
Shout out to my father for making the frames ‼️‼️
Acrylic paint on canvas
2017
Miscellaneous unfinished paintings
Acrylic paint, marker, and pen on canvas