#stalactite cave

[terebelli]

Neptune’s Grotto. Discovered in the 18th century.

[rooftopvibes]

I need some stalactite cave inspiration, it’s just insane i was once in one but it was many years ago and i forgot about them until recently i had an assignment to paint something stoney. It feels like this is hell and heaven. It just totally blows my mind how this place look so out of this world.

These formations make me soo uncomfortable but i wanna go visit one again. I feel like that’s what i try to do with paint/clay so often, try to build these natural formations. I love these nature made formations (also how trees with it’s branches form) and how it almost looks scary because it’s formed in such a strange way. How there is so much „human“ in these things, so much „suffering“, so much movement almost a drama. This is just amazing and i‘m already so excited to paint.

[jellykoala]

I've been making cave terrain with my new best friend Fiber Paste

I can't believe these are finally done! Took forever lmaoo

Some of the stalagmites are just scrap polymer clay I mushed up and painted and they match fine enough I think. I used various foams for the rest- the flat ones are cheapo craft foam i glued together in layers and the chunky ones are packing foam I chopped up and stabbed skewers into.

I coated everything in (white) gessopodge then added the fiber paste- gives them a stone texture and fills in all the holes, and I could also make little peaks in it for some extra stalagmites.

After it dried I primed them in black and did the basic dry brushing.

The hardest thing was definitely the cave pools cus I kept trying other mediums and fucking it up, but in the end I bit the bullet and bought some casting resin. (Used that on my swamp too)

Will probly make some scans of the DM screen I'm working on (painting in the background) as soon as I get some hinges for it

[smithsonianlibraries]

Photograph of stalactites from Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux t.37 (2009).

Full text here.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Prehistoric Interiors of Stump Cross Caverns, Yorkshire Dales

[spiritheyregone]

Lake Castrovalva area of Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. (Robbie Shone)

[witchesaandbitches]

Hellfire Caves, West Wycombe, UK.

Excavated between 1748 and 1752 for Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer and used for secret meetings of the Hellfire Club.

[lionfloss]

Cuevas del Drach in Mallorca, Spain

[macrowitchphotography]

Looks like someone left these rocks out in the sun and they started to melt... cool cave finds!

[funnynamedottxt]

stalactites and stalagmites

As a kid, people always said the way to remember that stalagmites were on the bottoms of caves and stalactites were on the top was that stalactites “had to stick tight to the tops of caves.”

This never made sense to me though, since one could also just as reasonably say that stalagmites have to use might to stick to the tops of caves, if that was what they actually did. Because of this, I never remember right from might from the whole “stick tight” thing.

Instead, I, being the counterintuitive weirdo I am, remembered them by remembering the fact that I thought that the saying people used to remember it was really dumb.

Because why NOT make everything in life harder?

[amomentofnature]

[jellykoala]

Here's the full DM screen I painted! Ready to drop my party into the underdark and ruin their day 🥳

It's been a long time since I've done a full painting and I'm definitely rusty, but I had a lot of fun anyway.

I tried to get pictures of it with all the hinges on but it's long and awkward so i settled for scans. It's made up of four 8×10 birch wood panels (gessoed on both sides to prevent warping) and connected with jewelery box hinges.

[thesilicontribesman]

'White Scar Caves', Yorkshire Dales

[dappertron]

I used to draw fake Pokemon when I was learning pixel art, and while a lot of them weren't very good, they were eventually something I could be proud of. These ones in particular are some of my favorite - Pagespar, Quartzquire, and Stalacknight, stalagmite cave monsters that are literal cave monsters.

[madbirdwoman]

[homemadehorrors]

Back from gf adventure, please gaze upon these neat rocks and bones we saw while I get back to monster-business.