Imperfectly Period

      It's a bit hard to tell, but the peacock eyes are all over-painted with iridescent paints.

    I helped at our barony's demo booth at a local faerie fair (think small fantasy themed Ren fair) and naturally spent most of the time painting charters.  The techniques were pretty simple, but I found it surprising and perhaps a little sad that many people found it fascinating.  I was puzzled on their reactions until a friend explained that many people stopped creating art of any kind after leaving school. People should be less afraid of sucking at something before getting good at it.  I'm still not there yet, but I'm not bad, either.

These are calligraphy for principality charters, which is why there are bits of white-out here and there and some smudges since the digital scribe can easily clean those up.   This one is transliterated from English using phonetic alphabets from Rezansky . 

Recently I've gotten into designing charters.  Not going to get into why, but it's a whole soapbox thing. A Silver Wing (helping newcomers) based on a very worm-eaten Icelandic exemplar.  I got to paint one recently and forgot to take pictures. 😅 A Hafoc (martial) based on the same exemplar.  I fell in love with the derpy elephant on the left.  Then I realized how goofy the faces of the soldiers were and how the castle turrets look like they're screaming.

A couple of charters I painted this year.