Rainbow Fiction

Name: Frown (sketch)
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #10 (sumi-e), Shocking Pink #10 (furrowed brows)
Supplies and Styles: sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyl again.

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Name: Pinched (sketch)
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #8 (pen & ink), Shocking Pink #8 (pinched look)
Supplies and Styles: sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Quick (digital) ink sketch of Phyllida making the face I sort of drew her making a lot of times before but here we are.

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Name: A Chapel in the Hospital
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: The Gold (Shipped) Standard (saturation), Electric Sky #15 (Mercury & Solace), Newsprint #15 (More than once I've wakened with tears down my cheeks. I have had to think whether I was crying or whether it was involuntary like drooling.)
Supplies and Styles: calendar page (National Healthcare Decisions Day), brush (16.4.24 inalienable); miniature collection, plein-air, saturation (the gold (shipped) standard), silhouette, triptych
Word Count: 668
Rating: mature
Warnings: Depression, alcohol abuse, sex talk, drug abuse, smoking, overdose, rehab, rich assholes, unresolved relationship, a parent with trouble remembering her kid's pronouns (but she means well).
Summary: A series of texts and searches on the phones of Henry Sharpe and Phyllida Francis.
Note: Fall Out Boy is sort of on the outskirts of my mind palace but that lyric truly slaps.

Mods, could I have a tag for the color "the gold (shipped) standard"?

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Name: Blinking Phyl
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #11 (pencil), Shocking Pink #11 (blinking)
Supplies and Styles: canvas; sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Younger Phyl in a cartoonish style; pencil sketch, moving gif.

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Name: Live while you're alive!
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Newsprint #25 (Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.) 
Supplies and Styles: modeling clay (This place is obscenely lavish.), seed beads; miniature, postcard, vaudeville
Word Count: 100
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyllida's Maltese dog Calliope escapes!

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Name: Phyl is considering divorce
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #5 (pastels), Shocking Pink #5 (impassive), Newsprint #19 (Boredom makes you do crazy things.)
Supplies and Styles: canvas; illustration
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyllida Winiger in her mid-30s in a mixed media drawing, with a impassive/sad expression. Definitely her worst hair era.
Note: I disliked the "pastels" digital brushes so much I messed with it with pencil and pen brushes.

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Name: Phyl's not so sure about this
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Graphite #2 (charcoal), Shocking Pink #2 (frowning), Newsprint #14 (Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations.)
Supplies and Styles: canvas; sketch
Word Count: n/a
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Phyllida Winiger in her early 20s in a soft charcoal pencil sketch.
Note: Back in my comfort zone with this medium. I also switched from FireAlpaca to Corel Painter for this, probably a good idea for the rest of this series.

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Name: An hour and thirty five minutes past seven p.m.
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Iridium #6 (cutting-edge), Newsprint #8 (The future is stupid.), Psychedelic Purple #24 (now my life has changed in oh so many ways)
Supplies and Styles: feathers (Britannica's On This Day: 1997 - The Age of Aquarius dawned); fingerpainting, postcard
Word Count: 136
Rating: general
Warnings: A poem about being a teenager.
Note: This is a poem by Reuben Tam Sherman, my character. I have never been to a cricket field, which is clearly the most important part of this poem.

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Name: Spilled Nuts
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Newsprint #17 (People won't behave if they have nothing to lose.), Psychedelic Purple #15 (I know I'll never be the same)
Supplies and Styles: novelty beads (someone told me), pastels (Ladiesbingo prompt "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"), stain (Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject -Thomas Mann); life drawing, silhouette
Word Count: 555
Rating: teen
Warnings: Mention of sex work.
Summary: Juliette has picked up a lead.
Note: Pretty cheeky to call this a story, when it's just me vibing on Anna and Juliette's desperate werewolf road trip again. Ah well, I do what I want. ("People won't behave if they have nothing to lose" could be the byline of the entire Anna and Juliette storyline.)

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Name: Lingering Summer, Borrowed Time
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Blue caravan #6: All my maps will only show me how to lose my way, Cloudy Gray #10: empty, Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry #7: provoke
Supplies and Styles: resin, canvas
Word Count: 2,396
Rating: explicit
Warnings: May/September (she is nineteen here), sexual politics, unequal relationship, background of mild depression.
Summary: It's hot. Henry has airconditioning. Juliette does not.
Note: Written for original_works_ex , posting here now that it has been revealed. Also on AO3 here. Thanks to cindybug for beta and Britpick!

( It was Henry's second house, here on the coast... )