I have been booking into some medieval festivals to draw portraits this summer.
The idea is not to have time to take photographs, but here are some sights that I did manage to capture
The idea is not to have time to take photographs, but here are some sights that I did manage to capture
and finally - two of me drawing taken by my Brother..
All these photos were taken at Passy les Tours which is near where I live. In fact my area is full of medieval castles - maybe that is why I feel so at home.
Before the next festival I want to finish making the walls of my tent - they need decorating to match the top and then waterproofing. ( To waterproof ordinary fabric cheaply you mix transparent silicon sealer with white spirit until it is thin enough to paint it on - usually 50/50.) I meant to get further with it than I did last year, - even though I am using old linen sheets which can be bought for 5 euro for a large double - I was still really nervous of doing something wrong - can it be wrong when I'm inventing it all anyway? Yes - I might be wrong - mistaken - an idiot and I mind.
( I wrote my own motto ' Let go and die or fly' - I ought to try to remember it!)
I want to make a large treasure chest from papier maché to store the things I am not using. Here is a bad photo of a little one I made where I keep my sandwiches - bottom right - (couldn't resist leaving the eagle in the picture) I will take another photo when I get home, and when I remember).
I am at my Mum's house in England - she is so frail I feel I cannot leave her and am trying to arrange help - it is a lot more complicated than I imagined.
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