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tanzenkat · 1 year

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Every year I ask my mum what she wants for christmas and every year she tells me to do her a painting. I love her very much but this is honestly quite exhausting; her taste is not my taste, and it is hard to get inspired. I have given in a few times, and I gave in again this year . This is a painting inspired a little bit by Bouguereau’s ‘returning from the fields’ and a little by JSS’s ‘carnation lily, lily rose’; then a bunch of her favourite stuff mashed together with lots of colour and cold light.

My psychosis has been pretty bad for the last few weeks, so I was dreading doing this piece. I put it off and off and off, but finally relented halfway in to December. Painting helps me with a lot of my symptoms but painting under pressure (for a deadline or a gift) generally does the exact opposite. That being said I did enjoy this painting, I think because there are so many gratuitous elements I could get myself lost in while I went. A lot of the mental mirage like haze comes across in the final thing, I think. I had a lot of fun with the colours, and figuring out plants for the first time was an interesting challenge. I’m actually happy with it, which is astonishing as I usually yeet these seasonal mother-tithes into the abyss as soon as I’m done with them. It’s a really nice feeling to finish a painting and think with certainty, yes, actually, this one will be going on the blog.

#art #illustration #digital painting #luminism #impressionism #Im really proud of the colour in this one #and the plants #why are plants so hard to paint #art as a curative balm for dogshit mental health

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heritageposts · 6 months

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I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

#free palestine #israel #gaza #this is under ch 10 'The Memoricide of the Nakba' - > 'Virtual Colonialism and the JNF'#''olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.''

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calamitys-child · 2 months

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What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

#other good ones are crocuses and lilacs #one time I was ill and depressed and my mum brought me a lil milk bottle full of fresh cut sweet peas from her garden 💖#i like that theyre colourful and i like climbing plants and they smell amazing #posts brought to you by me going to the park on my lunch break just to see all the crocuses

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mostly-funnytwittertweets · 1 year

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#plants #cats #dogs #nature #cat #dog #memes #meme #lol #funny #tweets #tweet #twitter

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cordspaghetti · 2 months

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some more of these two

#i meant to draw about the you know Landscaping Process next but it turns out i can’t pull a whole lawn makeover out of my ass #that will have to wait until i know how plants work #so for now just a little exchange. i’m in deep 🤕#x #digital art #bslc

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zegalba · 10 months

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Alpine lotus leaf flower

#Alpine lotus leaf flower #lotus #leaf #flowers #nature #plants

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mushroominawaterbottle · 7 months

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Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

#cryptid #cryptozoology #plants #botany

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ilta222 · 5 months

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