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C is for Cat. Watercolour illumination for primary school workshop. Happy Friday!

#watercolour #MedievalIllumination #CapitalLetters #cat #illustration #MastoArt #EarbyMedievalMayhem

Illuminating the Vitae patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy by Denva Gallant
https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09563-9.html
#ArtHistory #Illumination #ManuscriptIllumination #MedievalArt #MedievalIllumination

From @joannechocolat 's daily #WomenYouDeserveToKnow post on Twitter:

#Claricia was a 13th-century #German illuminator. Nothing is known about her life, but she is noted for a tiny self-portrait in a psalter of c. 1200, in which she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q., with her name inscribed over her head."

I think most of Joanne's subjects would enjoy & find like-minded friends here, but perhaps esp Claricia. 😊

#SelfPortrait #Illumination #MedievalIllumination #Art

There's usually only two stooges in the scene with the eye poke gag.

Didactic miscellany. Kk.4.25, f. 48r

#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters

Some marginalia do not need a caption save it's "A chicken riding a goat and jousting with a flower."

LIke many of the marginalia I find, the poster did not cite the manuscript.

#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters

Some recent work - a rework of an older piece. I don’t do a ton of cover-ups, since they often don’t work well in my primarily Celtic art style. This one was a fun challenge. Old knotwork integrated into a fresh illuminated style scene with tree, hounds, ravens and books signifying their family and shared interests.
Made at Ritual Tattoo Berkeley.

#tattoo #FullColorTattoo #MedievalIllumination #IlluminationArt #CelticTattoos #CelticKnotwork #TattooArtistsOnMastodon

A BIRD-woman feeding a BIRD leg to a BIRD.

Cannibalism to the nth degree.

Cloisters Apocalypse, f. 22v

#drollery #drolleries #manuscripts #MedievalDrollery #IlluminatedManuscript #grotesques #grylli #gryllus #hybrid #marginalia #medievalart #MedievalBook #MedievalHybrids #illumination #MedievalIllumination #MedievalLife #MedievalMarginalia #MiddleAges #MedievalManuscript #MedievalMonsters

I had to deal with the Swedish Unemployment Agency today and am a bit too squished for arting, so let's have a throwback. I made this many, many years ago as a BW magazine cover. A few months later I decided to colour a copy for fun. Everything, including the gold, is art grade gouache (I wasn't more ambitious than that). Sorry about the clumsy watermark - I'm definitely having a day.
#throwback #MastoArt #CreativeToots #FediArt #art #creative #ModernMedieval #MedievalIllumination