Benwood box painting

[sister_raphael]

I've finally finished the top of the bentwood box I was painting. The design is based on an illuminated manuscript image in the Avignon Municipal Library; MS 659, folio 277r.

I had lots of ideas about putting a band between the pink and the gold edging, but it looked awful in blue, and I've since painted over it again. Perhaps in the future, I may do a reddish band to match the red of the checks, but I'm not sure. I'll be thinking and considering carefully before I paint again.

This little box is where I'll be keeping my lucet-teaching supplies, and the painted lid will make it easy to find when it's stored in the chests.