I decided to enter a woodblock recreation of an image from a 1568 Danse Macabre into East Kingdom King’s and Queen’s Arts and Science Champions. I was super pleased with the results, and I enjoyed the process. I was able to get the pear wood planed to type height, so I was able to print the block [...]
|
|||||
|
So the dance of death woodblock has been fully carved for the first time. Now I need to ink it, make some print, and see what final carving needs to be done. Generally there are areas that need to be carved deeper, or details that need to be enhanced. You can only tell what needs [...] So I am going to have to put my Pennsic map project on hold. It is much to involved for me to work on while finishing up my Ph.D. I did get all of my pear wood planed down to 0.918″, which is American type height, so it will fit in my printing press, so now [...] I have added in the castles for each of the royal camps. I thought there would be more space, but some areas are really densely packed, so the castles are pretty small. I got rid of the fences in camps, in part because they were too big, and in part because I didn’t like the [...] Here is the map without the base official pennsic map layer. I have added in the fort, the field battle, the woods battle, and a number of encampments. I am still debating what to do about the lake. Next up will likely be little castles for all of the royal encampments.
I have begun the design for a new woodblock project – a map of Pennsic. I intend for it to be very detailed and include battle scenes, archers, royal encampments and more. I am trying to make it in the style of Sebastian Munster. I do not know how to draw, so it is difficult [...] The final spoon, with a monster carved in the handle. I need to go back and carve the bowl of the spoon out more. The wall of the spoon is kinda thick, so its not as easy to use as I would like. I was a lot of fun to have at the Beowulf event, and [...] I am heading to an immersion event centered around Beowulf. There will be many different performers each reciting a section of the epic poem Beowulf. To prepare for feast, the awesomeness who is Bertana came up with a great and insane idea that we should make our own wooden spoons. We picked up some 2×2 or so [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2024 BlastedOak - All Rights Reserved |
|||||