u/judgemaths

My daughter and I did a clay making workshop. We had to wait to pick our pieces up as they needed to dry before being fired in a kiln. The delay between the workshop and getting the finished articles home means I've completely forgotten the instructions for painting them. My daughter has an air drying clay kit which has tubes of acrylics and these two jars of colourless goo in them. Unfortunately the kit didn't come with instructions so I'm not sure how to use these and if they'd be applicable for the kiln fired clay. Also, searching for bright oil online gives me beauty products so what would I need to buy to restock it.

The medieval marginalia I got the idea from had a fat, buff, naked baby riding the snail. I opted for a slightly less creepy option of a skeleton guy instead.

Danse Macabre / Dance of Death - a popular late medieval genre of writing and printing about the cheerful subject of the universality of death and how it comes to all regardless of position in society. I picked this image of a nun being taken as I thought the solid black of her habit would make for a good print. This linoprint is based on an image from the Heidelberg blockbook (c late 1450s) oldest known printed volume on the subject. After doing a bit of reading on the book it turns out the nun has a smile on her lips is to put across the moral that pious people can look forward to their reward in death.

Leg that go on for miles!

A quick rough and ready medieval marginalia inspired print. A lot of my prints have been me carving away and leaving thin narrow lines so it was a nice change to do something with lots of solid black.

You know this wee dude is classy as he's based on an 18th century oil painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Nightmare

You know this wee dude is classy as he's based on an 18th century oil painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Nightmare

You know this wee dude is classy as he's based on an 18th century oil painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Nightmare

A wee trio of weirdos. Particularly happy with the hooded owl dude. Started off as a set of six on a single tile but binned half of them off and cut out the ones I actually liked.

After seeing someone posting questions about using LEGO earlier this week as I just out a bag of flat tiles and did some printing with my youngest (5). As per the advice I gave another user we built up thin layers of ink before printing and the results were pretty good.

Medieval marginalia inspired rabbit linoprint.

Combining three separate images from my screenshot folder. May redo the cat on a larger tile as this version was too small to capture the totally unhinged face.

Left: ???

Right: The Visions of Tondal, Hieronymus Bosch, 1479

Centre: Das Buch der Natur’, Conrad of Megenberg, 1434, Strasbourg Ms.2.264, fol. 85r

Combining three separate images from my screenshot folder. May redo the cat on a larger tile as this version was too small to capture the totally unhinged face.

Left: ???

Right: The Visions of Tondal, Hieronymus Bosch, 1479

Centre: Das Buch der Natur’, Conrad of Megenberg, 1434, Strasbourg Ms.2.264, fol. 85r

Combining three separate images from my screenshot folder. May redo the cat on a larger tile as this version was too small to capture the totally unhinged face.

Left: ???

Right: The Visions of Tondal, Hieronymus Bosch, 1479

Centre: Das Buch der Natur’, Conrad of Megenberg, 1434, Strasbourg Ms.2.264, fol. 85r

Combining three separate images from my screenshot folder. May redo the cat on a larger tile as this version was too small to capture the totally unhinged face.

Left: ???

Right: The Visions of Tondal, Hieronymus Bosch, 1479

Centre: Das Buch der Natur’, Conrad of Megenberg, 1434, Strasbourg Ms.2.264, fol. 85r

Clocked this in a second hand bookshop last week. Didn't buy it as I can't read Dutch! Couldn't find the edition on ISFDB so unsure who the cover artist is.

Snail in a suit of armour. Had this idea kicking about for a while. Not sure it lands. Oh well.