like flowers and blue sky

1. The flowers/vines wrapped around the frame are primroses. they’re also present to the right of Prim herself

2. The Capitol insignia is present in the four corners of the frame

3. The mockingjay (obv)

4. Dandelions in between Katniss and Peeta

5. A lark for Peeta (I had all the other birds, needed one for him!)

6. The katniss plant is by Katniss herself and Boggs, with a flower right in front of Katniss’s chest

7. A burdock plant, between Katniss and Prim

8. A Honeysuckle flower (Katniss runs into these after her tracker-jacker debacle in book one and remembers them from home)

9. Rue flowers, with other wildflowers (specifically white, purple, and yellow, which are the colors of the flowers Katniss used after Rue died)

10. Buttercup flowers (did you know these are poisonous? I didn’t)

11. Nightshade plant, of which the night lock is based on

12. Dahlias, because if I remember right there was one on Finnick and Annie’s wedding cake

13. Pine tree branches/pinecones, to represent Johanna’s home district, district seven

14. Potato plant/flowers next to Betee and Ampert. They’re also present to the right of Haymitch

15. Mockingjay graffiti

16. Yellow roses in between Haymitch and Maysilee, for friendship

17. Haymitch’s four little doves

18. Cattail, for Mags

19. Graffiti reading “The odds are never in our favor”

20. Blueberries—Maysilee uses blueberries in Sunrise on The Reaping to replenish her poison for her darts

21. Bee Balm

22. Sunflowers, for Lou Lou and the district nine and eleven tributes in Sunrise on The Reaping

23. Red Roses

24. Another mockingjay for Sejanus (this one is a little bluer/more saturated than Katniss’s, due to less generations of breeding with mocking birds)

25. Wheat for Reaper

26. A songbird for Lucy Gray

27. A snake, particularly the one Lucy Gray uses in the beginning of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

28. A raven, for Lenore Dove

29. Marigolds, symbolic of the cycle of and connection between life and death

30. White Roses

To the process:

For this one, I mainly focused on color palette, design, and most importantly, the composition.

They're one family, so I imagine they all come in their family colors. However, a sea of red would look boring. Luckily, the family also wears a lot of gold! Mixing some green into it, we now have at least three colors we can use.

For the design, I wanted to play into their personalities: Maedhros always prepared for battle, Caranthir with extra jewels since he's rich, and the twins being hunters, wearing more simple and practical clothing.

And then there's composition. I wanted to make sure there's still a lot going on and the tension is high, with just them sitting around a table, talking.

Once all of this was decided, it's just painstakingly rendering all of it. :)