On harmberga

Her Hos sitiþ on harmberga
agl[.] drigiþ swa hiræ Ertae gisgraf
sarden sorga and sefa torna

Here Hos sits on the sorrow-mound;
She suffers distress as Ertae had imposed it upon her,
a wretched den (?wood) of sorrows and of torments of mind

(Source: Wikipedia)



Based on the Franks Casket, early eighth century, right panel

Tool: watercolour
Time: 5-6 hours

Staffordshire Beast

Drawing based on the beautiful interlaced decoration on a metal hilt fitting from the Staffordshire Hoard. Anglo-Saxons for the win. 

To find out more, do visit the Staffordshire Hoard official website.

Tool: Mechanical pencil, 0.3mm

Time: 2 hours?

Ruby

A painting request from friend Becca of her dog Ruby

Tool: watercolour (and white acrylic touch-ups) over pencil sketch
Time: 3 hours

Town revisited

A paint-over of a sketch I did back in September last year

original here [link] or this:

Tool: Painter

Time: 2 hours over the original

The Butterfly Lion

Background art, prop (book covers for Black Beauty and The Secret Garden) and mural, done for The Butterfly Lion play at my university, 29th November - 1st December 2012.

Crouched burial!

Tool: Black fineliner