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Fun Flags (First Pass)

Made in April, 2025

Mediums: Acrylic Paint, Gesso, Rocks, Polymer Clay

Time Elapsed: 2 Hours?

This is what my pins look like when they first start out! After a few coats of white gesso, I do a thin first layer of paint to map out the stripes. The rest of the painting process is just making sure the stripes are even, the colors are opaque, and painting over imperfections caused by hands that shake 85% of the time.

The full process usually takes about... 6-12 hours, depending on complexity, how small I have to paint, and how my motor skills are doing that particular day. Sometimes they get done quicker, but that usually only happens on flags with 4 or less colors, and even then it's not very often.

I tend to work on a small handful of pins that have the same flag on them, switching between each one wile I wait for the paint to dry. It takes 3-5 days of painting sessions to finish up one batch. Usually, anyway.

Honestly, I've been considering leaving some of these in their more 'unfinished' first draft state... they look kinda cool like this! (And my mid-tier price tin could be a little less sparsely populated.)

Image Description

ID: An assortment of rock pins, laid out on a wooden desk. They are a work in progress. The colors have been roughly laid out with thin layers of paint that show the layer of white gesso underneath. A few pins have normal, straight stripes, but most have more abstract patterns. The strips drip and warp, or repeat endlessly over the surface of the pin. There are aro ace, lesbian, asexual, pansexual, genderfluid, and genderqueer flag pins. END ID.