A competition of any sort is an activity requiring you to enter using your skills to try and win. The skill amount needed depends on what the competition is asking you to do. If the competition is well defined and uses Kingdom judging criteria you already have a leg up on how your entry will be judged. The…
Link to image. When you look through this 13th-century manuscript made for the Pope you see it’s filled with giant killer bunnies, geese lynching wolves, and other crazy things. They are cute, silly, or a comment on Medieval daily life. But not all. This one pictures a dog hanging by its neck from a tree….
Link If you are like me and it’s expensive to get away from your home group you might try upping your activities there. That’s what I’ve done. I’m still doing my usual blogging and helping with kingdom events the Barony of the Lonely Tower hosts. There’s always one or ten handcraft projects to do. But my…
My students making their own paint. I missed something. Something you will really want. Two or three years ago when I was getting up to speed again for teaching my paint making class I missed the best introductory Medieval paint making post. It is the Medieval Yorkist’s Eulalia Piebakere‘s adventures in “Making Your Own Paints: A…
One of the easiest ways you can embellish a scroll is to add diapering. Diapering is the geometric checker-board pattern you see in illuminated manuscripts. It adds dramatic visual interest and fills the vacuum medieval art abhorred. Link to image. Link to image. You may see them include gold leaf or without it. Link to image. Link…
Calontir’s 2018 Summer Coronation is just around the corner. I truly hope you can come. It will be a grand time. Not only for the court’s pomp but because this one’s also a camping event. Camping coronations give you more time. More time to talk to friends, attend meetings, enjoy bardic presentations, eat the feast and take…
My binder-portfolio with the early stuff I made. Nobody tells this to you who are beginners. Beginners in any creative craft. I wish someone told me. If you do creative work, you get into it because you have good taste built within you. But there’s a gap between starting to create and being good. it’s…