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Anno Societatis LIX (59)
Art sized for 8" x 10" framing on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.
The Varangian Guard (Miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes, c. 1150). Museum: Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.
A map of the Holy Land attached to a pilgrimage guide within a chronicle narrating the first Crusade (Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnatium) in a manuscript dated to 1106-09; Saint Omer, Bibl. d’Agglomeration de Saint Omer, MS 776, fols. 50v-51r © BAPSO). This map is considered the earliest copy of its kind.
A wooden bread pele. The Pelican in Her Piety design is original art inspired in a hybrid style of the Viking-age art styles of Urnes and Ringerike. Wood burned art outline and text. Gouache and 22K shell gold for color. Sealed with beeswax and paraffin mix.
Inspiration: IBN BUTLÂN , Tacuinum sanitatis, Author-Ibn Butlan. Original title-Taqwīm as Si a (Arabic) Publication date/place: 11th century / Publication place-Baghdad under Abbasid Caliphate
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/121148/btvlb105072169/fl34.item
Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink
Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.
Liber de simplicibus, 1450s - Manuscript (Lat. VI. 59), Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice
https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/miniatur/1451-500/2italia4/index.html
Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.
Aquarius Aquarius, illumination from:
Art 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink.
Inspiration: Greenwood Company badge, House Ironwolf heraldry and Champion Flames, drawing of period ballista (in the command and use of which he is deadly accurate!)
Art size 8" x 10" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink
Head Illustration from the Chapter on Medicines from Stones and Gems, Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578.
https://www.medicinetraditions.com/introduction-to-gem-medicines.html
Art size 10" x 8" on pergamenata using gouache, 23K shell gold, and India ink
Roman Virgil Folio 078r held by the Vatican Library (better image obtained from https://itoldya420.getarchive.net/amp/media/romanvirgilfolio078r-cffe32
Art sized for 8" x 10" framing on pergamenata using gouache, 22K gold leaf, and Iron Gall ink
Inspired by: The Stowe Missal, c. 790; Lorrha Priory of St. Ruadhan, County Tipperary and Lackeen Castle, County Tipperary
https://localstudies.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/the-book-of-tallaght/
Original Art for Laurel Wreath
a laurel leaf bound by a heart of gold with a lean toward the Mammen art style
English Translation of runes on the chest - an honor poem in saga style.
Wolf Runes - The Secrets of Ulfrún
Bare of foot, yet bold in bearing,
Ulfrún treads with steady might.
Gold of heart and hands unfailing,
Saga’s flame in deepest night.
Fame she paints with raven’s wisdom,
Sagas shaped in boldest hue.
Through her hands, the deeds of heroes
Echo wide, and all rings true.
Once was near Nine-Fingered naming,
When her blade went chasing flesh.
Red her hand, yet firm her carving,
Bold heart and spirit, yet refreshed.
At Hnefatafl, board-lords falter,
Queen unseen, her path precise.
War-king fled, his reign to alter,
Toppled by her throw of dice.
April’s sun on fields is gleaming,
Nineteenth day, in year five-nine.
Kilian konungr, Jalida dróttning,
Stand in grace, where stars align.
To shield and spear, to hall and oar,
Send forth their words, heed summon’s call.
Let winds bear witness, ravens soar,
Their will be known by one and all.
Bare of foot, yet bold in bearing,
Ulfrún stands with steady grace.
Laurel placed, her skill declaring,
A mark that time shall not erase.
Let the sagas, mark this calling,
Skald and carver, wise and wry.
Craft and lore forever claiming,
Barefoot still, and walking high.
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