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Artworks

This page contains a sample of my current work (all from the last year). Older pieces are being reevaluated for inclusion.

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Ansteorran Summer Labours

A pen, ink and gouache illustration for the cover of the new edition of the Kingdom of Ansteorra Newcomer's Guide (a local SCA kingdom publication).

Designed after several illuminated manuscripts originally painted between 1300 and 1600. The originals were labors of the seasons, specifically summer and autumn.

Actual size 8x8.25 inches

Intended Print size 3x3 inches

Elizabeta's August Hunt

Gouache and pencil on bristol board, made as a birthday gift for a friend.

It is based on the August panel from the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc DuBarry. Major elements that are different are the members of the hunting party (only the subject and another friend are shown), and the dogs and horses, who are based on real animals. I also made a slight change, adding a thatched hut to one side of the hayfields, and chose to leave out the swimmers and the harvestmen, instead showing the hay already cut and stacked and the pond empty. As in the original illuminated panels, this is unsigned on the front.

Actual size (including white borders) 9x11 inches

Not intended for print.

In the private collection of T. Hunnewell.

Black and White

Column Queens

A series of pen and ink illustrations of 12th Century French column statues in their current damaged or restored states. Actual sizes of drawings vary, most are about 4x9 inches.

Column Queens

A series of pen and ink illustrations of 2 column statues at Chartres, a probable donor portrait, and a drawing after an 18th century sketch of a now-destroyed statue.

Actual sizes of drawings vary between 3x7 and 4x9 inches

Herod and Salome

A pen and ink drawing of a well-known 12th century carving depicting Herod and Salome.

Actual size of drawing is 8x10 inches.

Intended Print size is 4x5 inches.