Laurent Of Vere - Blog Posts

my parents 😭😭❤️❤️

a kingdom, or this.

the bond between a girl and their favorite fictional man is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object

big "that's nice, dear" energy

this may be in the top 3 scenes of capri for me

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.)

Hah so here's the piece for @laurent-ofvere for the @capri-bigbang2k18 fic "From the Depths" specifically this bit:

Damen could feel the water seeping into his pants, the fabric sticking to his thighs. Damen pressed the heels of his feet into the stone and pulled off his boots, but was otherwise unbothered. Water dried, and he wasn’t above relishing in the fact that he had managed to incite a reaction, despite the indifferent gaze with which it was delivered.

“If you wanted to get me wet so badly,” Damen said. “You could have just asked me to jump in with you. I don’t mind water.”

“If I ask you to leave, will you do that?” he asked. “I mind you.”

Aaah only took me half a century to edit it the way I like it but traditional art /shrug; really happy to have done this ♡

Oh my god it’s done.

So been on a fanart-for-fanfic kind of kick and this one is inspired by/for @steelestingray‘s Of Kings and Curators! It’s been really refreshing just making things for things I like versus worrying about monetizing, cons and the like. I really enjoyed the mental image of Laurent having an aura that goes between gold and blush and blue and wanted to play around with it (the blue, I could lie and say was deliberate, but my brush flicked some ink. I just shrugged and went with it.)

I still feel like Laurent came out looking like a J Crew/LL Bean model mixed with a history T.A. with the sweater-vest but honestly, I’m glad I stuck with it.

Detail shot from the salt wash because I told myself I wouldn’t, but I have the impulse control of a toddler.

Graphite (2H and 2B,) watercolor (Daniel Smith,) Liquitex Iridescent Gold ink, and Pilot Iroshizuku inks in Kon-peki (Cerulean Blue) and Syoro (Dew on Pine Tree/a really lovely blue-green.)