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inmytreehouse · 3 months

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Some pages from my old art journal (2015-2021) // part 2

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field-guide-to-mud · 4 months

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let the rain fall and bring life

#junk journal #scrapbooking #craft #pressed plants #mudposting #i need to start posting more #this page was rly fun to make i used some watercolour paint in large droplets to add to the effect #and id finally gotten some pop-up adhesive squares for some extra texture!!#i love how i keep learning new techniques #i also just love this artform for its ease of access #like im sooo not an artist in terms of like. drawing things from scratch #but i know i make nice pages #tbh this photo was taken when the page was still a bit wet #which if anything enhances it but it doesnt look like that anymore

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lionfloss · 1 year

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NMNH - Botany Dept.

Dichapetalum ugandense Moss

#nature #plants #pressed plants #green #1913 #uganda #Africa #botany #antique #vintage #scans #smithsonian #art #science

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lycomorpha · 10 months

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Eivor's herbarium: Page 5 - grasses and yarrow from a cursed zone meadow

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“From a hill-top meadow west of Grantebridge, where the land breathes again”.

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Before changing county, I've been thinking about meadows and how agriculturally important they would have been to settlements like Grantebridge or Ravensthorpe. Handily there's a meadow not far from our previous stop outside Soma's longhouse, on a cursed hill-top just west of town.

Cursed zones are small areas on the map where a black roiling fog gathers, horses freak out, and Eivor talks of malevolence and cursed troll magic.

This horse is questioning its life choices...

To dispel the curse you need to find and destroy a skull covered in glowing symbols. Shoot it and the dark fog dissipates, with Eivor saying that the land can breathe again.

The cursed troll magic symbol

Cursed zones are a slightly odd feature, in that it’s not clear how the ‘magic’ of the curse works. There isn’t an obvious link to Isu tech. We find some notes/snippets of story around suggesting they’re being placed there by Saxons in an attempt to hex away the Danes. In the Wrath of the Druids DLC, the druids are using a recipe that creates hallucinogenic vapor to induce visions of werewolves etc, so the cursed zones could work in a similar way, with the fog being part of the mechanism. But it’s not clear to me unless I’ve missed something.

However they’re supposed to work, cursed zones are good places to find fungi, plants, and honking great big trees. So I quite like them. (I know some gamers hated them and felt they were pointless collectibles; if that’s you, maybe some video game botany will improve them?!)

Aerial view of the hill-top cursed zone west of Grantebridge

The hill-top cursed zone west of Grantebridge has a particularly nice view from above and is surrounded by meadow. Since Eivor is helping run a settlement with farms, I’m sure she’d appreciate the importance of hay meadows to agriculture, and as a source of herbaceous plants for medicinal uses.

In the long grass

What is a meadow?

A meadow is an area of grassland where the vegetation is allowed to grow tall and isn’t cut in spring and summer. In late summer/autumn, the meadow is mowed to make hay, which then feeds farm animals over the winter. Until then, cut meadow is grazed by animals (sheep, cows, maybe goats) which poop as they go, dropping some handy fertiliser around the place. When gets too cold and wet for livestock to be out grazing, animals are brought in and fed on the hay, with the meadow left until spring for the cycle to start over again. This is in contrast to pasture, which is grazed in the growing seasons rather than allowing grasses to get long.

The un-cursed meadow, ready for hay-making

Hay meadows are full of diverse grasses and wildflowers. In AC Valhalla we particularly see yarrow, ox-eye daisies, and grasses like Yorkshire fog (4th pressed grass from the left) and meadow foxtail (2nd from left.)

On this page I’ve centred yarrow, mainly because I’m saving the daisies for another page! The grasses are from a couple of square metres in my back garden that I keep as a veeeery smol meadow. I’m lucky enough to have some outdoor space, and my priority in life is generally insects. So I leave some grass to get tall, and encourage a range of local wildflowers and grasses that serve as food for bees, moths, and beetles. In the un-cursed meadow, Eivor might have also seen clover, yellow rattle, lady’s bedstraw, and I’d bet on sweet vernal grass and crested dogstail too (3rd grass from the right.)

Ox-eye daisies in my local cemetery meadow

Hay meadows are an amazing reservoir of wild plant and insect species, but are now a rare habitat. Apart from the obvious changes in agricultural practice, capitalism doesn’t value biodiversity in spaces it could build on, extract from, or intensively farm the crap out of. But hope is not lost for meadow species. Many conservation organisations here work with farming communities to restore former meadows or to create new ones. Churchyards and church lands that haven’t been developed are also important spaces for meadow preservation – and in AC Valhalla we see meadows around the monastery at Meldeburne.

Meadow grasses and flowers around Meldeburne monastery

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Super-common and very tough, yarrow is a component of meadows but is found anywhere grassy – it’s found in lawns and verges all over the UK. In my area you'd be hard pressed not to see any in summer.

Yarrow in my backyard

Feathery, finely divided leaves gave it another common name, milfoil or millefoil, meaning 1000 leaves. It has clusters of small white or pinkish flower heads with an interesting structure. The flat-topped clusters of flowers look like they’re made out of daisy(ish) shaped individual flowers...

...But take a look at those daisy shapes and you’ll see that each is actually a cluster of many smaller tiiiiny flowers that just LOOK like a daisy. The centre is made of a bundle of tube-like ‘disc’ flowers that have 5 petals fused together. These are surrounded by a few ‘ray’ flowers, each with one large petal. So cool!

Yarrow: flowers inside flowers

Ecologically, it’s an important source of nectar and pollen for bees, and a food plant for many other insects, including moths and beetles. Some cavity-nesting birds use it as lining material. I encourage it to grow in my lawn along with clover, self-heal and black medick, because it’s a lot hardier and more drought tolerant than any lawn grass.

Historically, yarrow used to be used medicinally to staunch bleeding, but weirdly was also called ‘nosebleed plant’ because of a myth that it caused nosebleeds. It also used to be used as a good luck charm.

Yarrow and ferns

I'm going to move onto the autumnal ferns of Ledercesterscire for page 6, but I'll probably come back to Grantebridgescire for some of the other mysteries.

#eivors herbarium #Eivor's herbarium #video game botany #videogamebotany #ac valhalla #assassins creed valhalla #assassin's creed valhalla #lady eivor #eivor wolfkissed #eivor varinsdottir #botany #plants #pressed plants #book herbarium #herbarium #meadows #grasses #yarrow #virtual photography

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tiny-glued-things · 1 year

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I made a miniature herbarium! Used a kit as a base, but then crafted the herbarium cabinet, plant press, and lots of specimens.

(Modified from kit: Elegant Studio)

#herbarium #diy miniature #miniature #museum #pressed plants #DIY kit #office #tiny things #natural history collections #plant specimens

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ramune-raven-art · 10 months

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Pressed plants

#ramune raven art #ravens ocs #hoopoe #austroraptor #dromeosaur #dromeosauridae #dinosaur #bird #bird art #paleoart #dragon #pressed plants

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elisewehle · 11 months

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#collage #pattern #elisewehleartwork #nature #nature art #plantlover #plant art #mixedmedia #mixed medium #collage art #pressedflowerart #pressed flowers #freshly pressed #pressed plants #abstract figurative

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nmheaman · 1 year

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Something a little different: Playing with pressed plants and my scanner! These are giving me funky ideas for prints and/or cards in the future 🌿

#photography #pressed plants

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ezekieltobiasfletcher · 11 months

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Pressing some of my Spiderwort flowers. 💜

#me #purple #cottage vibes #pressed plants

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runfrombarrett · 9 months

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found pressed leaves in a lyric poetry book from 1840 as well as cards from the 50s in an old bible at the flohmarkt.

#morute #corvidcore #appalachain gothic #pressed plants #gothic

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inmytreehouse · 8 months

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Details from my old art journal // part 2

#art journal #art journaling #pressed plants #pressed flowers #collectibles #tiny things #little things #small artist #artists on tumblr #my art #mine #my artwork #art blog #artwork #art #nature journal

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plvnts · 1 year

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𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔

#plants #amnh #botany #pressed plants #corpse flower

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lycomorpha · 9 months

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Video game botany: Eivor's herbarium

In the autumn I collected some fern fronds and pressed them to use on the first herbarium page for leicestershire/ledercesterscire. In game the county is perpetually autumnal, so I wanted to try and capture the colours. I haven't seen any of the ferns here turning as red as they do in ACV until they're too far gone and crispy to press, so the yellow/orange colours are as good as I can get.

These fronds are mostly too big for my scanner, which means they're going to need trimming to fit on the book pages! Which frond do you think will look best?