S-shaped dual raven heads brooch
Mixed Media / drawing: Reconstructing an object from archaeology.
Right: reconstruction, left: source photo
Pencil and permanent marker on paper. 2019. Variable measurements
Please note that this is not a copy of the original. Some details have been changed. Related post...
Ballpoint drawings
Mixed Media / drawing: Four sketches made with ballpoint pen...while slightly drunk
Four ballpoint pen sketches. Ballpoint pen on paper. 2019. (4x) ~A5
Well, I went to "Julefrokost" (a Danish custom) at a close friends apartment. He collects weird stuff, eg stuffed animals. Wonderful models to draw from - I could probably spend a month in his home, drawing, and never draw the same thing twice.
More interwoven animal designs
Mixed Media / drawing (WIP): Reconstructing two more ornaments from archaeology.
Reconstructions of ornaments from archaological finds, step 1: Outline.
2019. Variable measurements (here ~A5)
These two ornaments are both damaged. I hope to be able to recreate them. However, the photos I have to work from are neither sharp nor detailled enough to identify all details.
(Related post.)
Monochrome
Mixed Media / drawing: Three non-figurative sketches
Three non-figurative sketches. Pencil, charcoal, paper. 2019. (3x) A3
HuginnMuninnMania
Mixed Media / drawing: Yet another motif from archaeology. Some readers may recognize it
"Thought and Memory". Outline of archaological find. 2019.
As noted in an earlier post, interlaced patterns with stylized versions of the two ravens were very fashionable/popular from circa 400-1,000CE and some centuries onward. Read on for more examples....