Last weekend I remade a hat in preparation for having fun with joycebre. We've been talking forever about renaissance hair bleaching (and where the bleep is that woodcut with the woman with the broad-brimmed hat bleaching her hair?) and I've been saying that i needed to make a bleaching hat. Well, I finally did it!

( Pictures... lots of pictures... )

You have an art time travel machine. You can pick five artists to do a likeness of you (it doesn't have to be painting or photography). Assume that all the payment, scheduling, and so forth are taken care of - you just show up for your sitting(s) with temporally appropriate clothing that is esthetically pleasing to you. But these are for your ( Read more... )

From broider_barones 
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There will be classes at the upcoming West AnTir War.
There will be demonstrations of arts and science stuff a the upcoming West AnTir
War.
There will be A&S challenges at the upcoming West AnTir War.

We want everyone to come play and learn. What do you want to learn? What do you
want to teach? demonstrate?

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As promised, here is a pic of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that evil_macaroni  knit.
( Still Awesome! )

moriven has posted pics on his Smugmug site of the reliquary (aka my liquid lunchbox) that
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I've been chewing on teaching some classes based on research I've been doing about renaissance painting techniques. What I'd like to do is a series of classes taking students through the different skills learned by a painter's apprentice. I could see the series running something like this:

Drawing:
1 - introduction to drawing basic 3 dimensional ( Read more... )

aastg - you asked for closeups of the bed. moriven has posted the pics on his SmugMug site so you can see them full size.

http://martinorivenstar.smugmug.com/gallery/6333697_ZzNCx/1/399599990_uttnt#399599990_uttnt

We had an awesome weekend!

Saturday, moriven did super well in the tournament. I think he was #5 in the day. He beat Viscountess Brin and Herzog Matthias in super cool fights. He held his ground and kicked some donkey even with Matthias all over him with his dagger. I'm so proud :) He also had an awesome fight with Sir Conall. They looked like they ( Read more... )

I've been reading Traditional Oil Painting by Virgil Elliott. In it he says something that I think is valuable to artists of all kinds.

"Another harmful influence is the social convention that compels us to feign humility, to pretend we are less than we are, in order to be liked. The danger in such self-deprecation is that it becomes all too easy to ( Read more... )

I just finished the main painting on the headboard and footboard of my camp bed! Hooray! Well, I still want to do some detail painting on the back of the headboard, but that's really a brandy soak for an already iced cake ( Read more... )