Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art

Up until last year I was an expert at killing them, so I’m pleased I’m doing something right this time! (Probably not overwatering anymore lol)

thank you to everyone sending us your Playmobil hogs. we needed this today

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Ooh I like this

Future videos won’t have music, sorry I forgot to turn it off!

I know bsky isn’t really a video platform, but I haven’t made a process video in a while and I love seeing how I put this study together!

Circe Invidiosa art study process 🐉🏺🌊

Me battling my monstera and then putting out all its little babies

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Art by flaroh illustration. A study of John William Waterhouse’s painting Circe Invidiosa (1892) in a digital medium. Circe stands on a fishlike water dragon, pouring a green tinged liquid from a glass basin with a scowl. She is dressed in a dark blue cloth with a peacock design

Circe Invidiosa study 🐉🏺🌊

#greekmyth #art

Happy birthday!

Terracotta of an Amazon, mounted on a horse, wearing a cuirass molded to show female anatomy, wearing a knobbed Montefortino helmet with holes where plumes could be inserted.

Depictions of female anatomical cuirasses are relatively rare in the ancient world, even on mythical female warriors.

But this Amazon terracotta from Canosa shows that "boob armor" pairs quite well with a Montefortino helmet.

Note the drill holes on top for plumes!

Long grass surrounds a Victorian gravestone, with more gravestones and trees behind it.

Peering through the railings into St Andrew's Churchyard in Newcastle upon Tyne. One legend sees a woman in blue, known as Poor Charlotte, haunt the graveyard.

Following bc I’m fascinated by this! (I had no idea about the fresco —> mosaic forgery)

“Sneak peek + wallpaper: Circe offering the cup to Odysseus “ text over a blurred gradient of pinks and blues

Coincidentally I’ve also just finished my next study of another Waterhouse Circe painting: Circe offering the cup to Odysseus

Preview and wallpapers available on my Patreon ahead of public posting 🧡 (though i suppose you can just go look at the original painting LOL) www.patreon.com/posts/134216...

This!👏🏻👏🏻

Wonderful thread on the amount of thought and depth of knowledge that goes into an archaeological illustration, and on living with the uncertainty:

Love love love all the research behind this piece!!🧡🏺

While I wanted to keep the study close to the original, I also wanted to throw in my own flair. This mostly is shown in the sizing (I extended the dimensions to my usual 3:4 ratio), the posing (Circe standing controposto with lowered arms rather than extended), and the angling of the water dragon🐉

🖼️July’s illustration is a study of Circe Invidiosa by the iconic John William Waterhouse. The scene, originally painted by Waterhouse in 1892, shows Circe (invidiosa - Latin/Italian for envious & hostile) pouring a potion into the pool where the nymph Scylla is going to bathe. This painting follows Ovid’s myth in the Metamorphoses where Circe wants to disfigure Scylla, whose only crime was being loved by Circe’s crush (zoinks). Circe crushes up magical herbs and invokes Hecate’s spells, creating the liquid that she then pours into Scylla’s bathing pool. Once the nymph enters the water, up to her torso, beasts spring from her skin, giving her the belt of dogs heads and coiling tail(s) from the waist-down.

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Wallpapers, print, sticker, and full download (18x24inch!!) are available on my Patron site Patreon.com/flaroh!💌 If you’re a fan of my work this is a great way to get some cool ancient art while supporting me directly 🧡🏺

Art by flaroh illustration. A study of John William Waterhouse’s painting Circe Invidiosa (1892) in a digital medium. Circe stands on a fishlike water dragon, pouring a green tinged liquid from a glass basin with a scowl. She is dressed in a dark blue cloth with a peacock design

Circe Invidiosa study 🐉🏺🌊

#greekmyth #art

Athena of the Varvakeion

Video Timelapse using snapshots I took throughout the painting process!

Art by flaroh illustration. Aphrodite emerges from waves surrounded by doves. The waves make a dress and the background is pink.

The birth of Aphrodite 🕊️🩷🌊🏺

Im currently knee-deep in a new Greek myth portrait, so I thought in the meantime I’d share this one I drew of Aphrodite from last year🦪🫧
#greekmythology #art

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”

Ok well I asked Sappho and she said

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..[b]osom

The pictures really don’t do them justice!

A votive female head, possibly representing a deity, wears a veil and a beaded necklace. Her hair is parted at the center and is pulled back in tight wavy locks that cover her ears. She wears a tall headdress in the form of a netted band or diadem, which is divided at the center and is rendered by numerous spherical beads. The back is unarticulated, and consists of a slab of clay that folds over the diadem to form a veil. There is a projecting collar at the bottom, acting as the supporting base for the head. A portion of the upper left part of the head and a bead from the necklace (a simple necklace of roughly round beads) are missing, and there are cracks on the top of the head. Traces of white (pigment or encrustation?) are present all over the surface, which is covered in a beige slip.

There's something special about this Etruscan female votive head with a tall headdress and beaded diadem. The closeup below shows *dozens* of fingerprints from the ancient potter, a man who was contemporaneous with Alexander the Great. 🤯 🏺 #ancientbluesky

325-275 BCE, #GettyVilla. 📸 me

View of old stell crag, a massive rocky outcrop overlooking the valley

Emperor moth caterpillar in the heather

More impressive rocky formations! Hard to see depth but they were over a person tall

Cool Bronze Age information I didn’t know about until I saw this at the end of the walk😅

Lots of cool rock formations and the amount of insect life was actually heartwarming 🧡🐛🪴

Myself leaning against a rock with the expanses of the lower slopes behind me, including the southern edge of the Lordenshaws hill fort in the upper left

We were bored yesterday so decided to finally visit Simonside🌿

I now want to go back and tour the Bronze Age sites I unwittingly walked past (like an entire hill fort behind me in the upper left of the pic!)

Return of the king!!!

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No photos today because I went without my phone, but I’ve just been swimming in the sea and it was absolutely glorious, just like an Enid Blyton novel