Dressing up!

This afternoon I had my lovely friend come over to try on some outfits for the upcoming Abbey Medieval Festival. She's still suffering with post-Covid laryngitis, but never-the-less we had fun trying on a few outfits and experimenting with veils and getting different looks. Although she's helping out in the marketplace with me, we tried some working class looks and a couple of slightly more well-to-do options.

This one is my favourite! A few hours well spent with good results!

Painted box progress

 

 

 

I feel like I'm slowly making progress on this. I've not got the rest of the paint colours I need and hopefully over the weekend I can find time to finish this off.

Here's the style guide for the background design.

 

 

You can see how far I've come- the background colour is on and the dark red lines are on. I've painted the dots and all that remains is to do the grey-white crisscross pattern. I need a steady hand for this and quite frankly, the more of this kind of thing I do, the more I appreciate illuminated manuscripts.