#Red & Spinel

[xka08587]

Another art attack done heheh :)

This one was for zomb1ance on Instagram! This is their OC, Red Spinel

[littlefeatherr]

Zorab Creation 18k ring created with 7.84-carats of pear-shaped apatite, 3.25-carats of round red spinels and 0.71-carats of round white diamonds.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Imperial Crown of Russia or the Great Imperial Crown is one of the most outstanding examples of ‘regalia.’

Regalia is referred to as the emblems or insignia of royalty that survived through history.

It is a precious cultural heritage treasure — a well-documented and well-dated piece of jewellery.

Regalia jewellery pieces offer historians great insight into the gemstones used, their historical market values, and occurrences.

It also helps gemologists and jewellers to know how the gems were named and set on the piece of jewellery.

While royal crowns were usually made for individual rulers and later broken up, some of this royal regalia could be found in museums today.

Here are some interesting facts about one such royal artifact, the great Imperial Crown of Russia.

The Great Imperial Crown was made for Catherine the Great’s coronation, as the Russian Empress in 1762 AD, by Georg Friedrich Eckart and Jérémie Pauzié.

It is set with 4936 diamonds with a total weight of 2858 ct, 75 natural pearls, and a large 398.72 ct red spinel, historically known as “balas ruby,” which is among the largest ever reported in the literature, most probably from Badakhshan (today’s Tajikistan).

Imperial Crown of Russia was first worn by the Russian empress Catherine, followed by the subsequent seven emperors of her dynasty.

This royal regalia has remained a permanent fixture on the royal head.

This priceless artifact has been passed on to eight members of the Romanov family:

Catherine II, Peter III, Paul I, Alexander I, Nikolai I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nikolai II.

The Romanov dynasty survived till 1917, yet the crown publically appeared for the last time in 1906 at the opening ceremony of the first State Duma.

The crown was estimated to be worth $52 million in 1920.

The stones that the royal regalia comprises were sold off by the Bolsheviks and replaced in 1985.

Later in 1998, the crown was moved to the fund of Kremlin’s Diamond. Subsequently, it was declared to be priceless in a literal sense.

📷 : A modern replica version of the Imperial Crown was made in 2012 by Kristall-Smolensk, as part of the Jewellery project "Creation of Imperial Crown of Russia in Modern Interpretation" to celebrate the 400 years of the Romanov Dynasty and the 250 years of the Imperial Crown, as well as the 50th anniversary of the diamond industry in Russia.

Using white gold (original used silver) and 11,426 russian diamonds (original crown had 4,936 diamonds) from Alrosa with a total weight of 1180 ct, including 74 cultured pearls and a 384.71ct pear-shaped double rose cut purple tourmaline on top of the crown.

The spinel in the replica was replaced with a unique natural red tourmaline with a mass of about 400 karats.

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the afternoon is: Red Spinel from Magical Girls (GREE)!✧・ﾟ:*

[housekinoquestions-ocs]

Another old thing with the gems. Not all of them are here but they were the most prominents when I started making them. There way are more than 15 now.

[butterlaneantiques]

The History of Spinel

 Spinel is a good candidate for the title of “History’s Most Underappreciated Gem.” Ancient mines that supplied gems for royal courts from Rome to China produced spinel, but it was usually confused with stones like ruby and sapphire.

Late Victorian Red Spinel 5-Stone Carved Half-Hoop Ring - www.butterlaneantiques.com

One of the most famous examples is the so-called “Black Prince’s ruby.” This historic crimson-red gem is set in England’s Imperial State Crown and displayed in the Tower of London.

It first appeared in the historical records of fourteenth-century Spain, and was owned by a succession of Moorish and Spanish Kings before Edward, Prince of Wales—the “Black Prince”— received the stone in 1367 as payment for a battle victory.

Don Pedro died just three years later, and Edward died before inheriting the English throne. So, the gem passed to Edward's son, King Richard II, who was murdered when he was just 21 years old. The Black Prince's Ruby passed through the hands of several English rulers, who died under tragic circumstances, causing it to be cursed.

[miss-camarderie-herself]

Updated Birth Letter Info: B (born either the 2nd or 28th of any month)

There are many artists with this birth letter such as:

Marvin Gaye

Shakira

Frank Ocean

Bryson Tiller

Melanie Martinez

That Girl Tay Tay

J Cole

Trey Songz

Rick Ross

Lady Gaga

John Legend

Lily Allen

Soulja Boy

Britney Spears

GloRilla

Big Freedia

Nelly Furtado

Jason Aldean

Quavo

Becky G

Charli XCX

Bon Jovi

Dreamdoll

Reba McEntire

DcYoungFly

Nelly

Kylie Minogue

Saweetie

[bees-pees]

my blorbo colour wheel from months ago now. from may time? blody hell

[makittuu]

GUYS. GUYS.

I found this amazing fanfiction! It's going to be at the top of my lists for sure. It's a Steven Universe AU fic where an apocalypse takes over the earth; and corrupted gems and Spinel's pain are further explored 🙌

I drew Red, one of the characters from it! I absolutely adore the concept for this character; you should definitely give the story a read to learn more! 🙏 I really hope I did Red justice in my art 💕

Red belongs to @prophet-of-calamity

and here is their fic!👇

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50458486/chapters/127488331

She has a lollipop at one point in the story, so I drew her with a couple hehe!

Also, the writing is very masterfully done; it flows very well, is complex, and it's such a nice read!

FURTHER DISCUSSION, (IF INTERESTED)👇

Going into it, I was a little cautious, as I would be for any fanfic, just because it's about one of my favorite characters. Spinel is so much so one of my favorite characters that I really wanted to like the author's representation of her! It's obviously okay to think about characters however you want to. And to represent them however feels best to you! But going into this, I was really hoping to like the way Spinel was represented by this author! And I left feeling beyond impressed at the way the author handled Spinel's inner thoughts and the way she can be compassionate for others, but also feel trapped and overtaken by her thoughts and pain sometimes. She was never given the chance to fully heal, so it makes sense. And even if she were, she was hurt pretty badly; it's understandable if she never fully, truly and completely stops hurting over it. Healing isn't a linear path, and I think the author did a wonderful job of representing all of this.

AND OMG this story does such a good job of representing other characters in a way that feels so true to them too! Lapis felt so lined up with her character that I could even hear her lines in her voice as I was reading!

The descriptors and imagery throughout are stunning, and done in a way that made me feel fully immersed as I was reading. Even when I left and came back to keep reading, I felt immersed again as I got into it, which is hard for me sometimes.

On top of that, the author found so many clever connectors to link Spinel's character in with other events. I'm very impressed by it, and please go give it a read! <3

There's also a detroit become human reference in chapter two that really struck me, I have not heard that joke in a long time bahahahha 😭

I hope I came off the right way, I absolutely recommend this story! It's not completed just yet, but what's written so far is 100% worth a read all on its own, and it deserves to have a bunch of loyal readers! And it's so beautifully done, I'd still happily recommend it and believe how worth it of a read it is, no matter how long it ends up being in the end! Writing is hard and finding motivation can be difficult at times, and this author has done such an amazing job tackling this project, putting in so much care and developing all the characters so strongly! Even Red is developed so well that she fits in really seamlessly with the official su characters :)

Thank you for making it to the end if you did! :)

[mangokiwismoothie]

Why hello there! It's been a while since I've draw anything SU related, and even longer since I've actually been on tumblr lol

But I recently went down memory lane of old drawings I did and suddenly got the urge to draw again after not feeling it for years! SO! Here we have some forms for Garnet and Amethyst for my Red Diamond au! As well as slightly updated forms for Blue, Yellow, and Pink Pearl for my Steven and The Stevens AU. Some MORE slightly updated forms for my CG!Spinel, and a Ruby and Sapphire corruption lol

Enjoy!

[littlefeatherr]

Gubelin Certified 13.37 Carat No Heat Burmese Spinel and Diamond Ring 18K Gold

[fireopal-tash]

👔🎀❤️

Click the images for better quality UwU

[gemsbian]

felt like drawing some animals

[soft-aes-for-soft-kins]

hican i have an uhhnmmm tord from eddswolrd aes that loves n misses edd with red and green & dark clrssssss... with themes of sadness n regret thankksksssss

Would’ve posted this last night but my program just. Stopped working so I had to give it a bit- Mod Spinel

[hotpinkboots]

ATTENTION FANFIC WRITERS

Please, please, PLEASE STOP deleting your old fics!!! You may feel embarrassed by them or think they're old but there are people who REALLY LOVE THEM!! Two of my favorite fics were just deleted and I miss them so much!

[nukuome]

Forgot to post here.. I did the Twitter thing like a month ago. I really like how it turned out :3