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osprey_archerI have, as you know, been endeavoring to avoid working on my paper about St. Katherine. I offer you two pictures as fruits of my endeavors to this end.
The first is from yesterday. I took the bus to Pickering, because there is supposed to be a church there with medieval wall paintings of St. Katherine (!!!), so the trip was like working on my paper except without the actual working part. I couldn't find the church, but I did find date and walnut cake and a surprise!castle (only in England do you find castles in towns so small they have no postcards), and on the way back we had a lovely sunset.
I'm thinking of going back tomorrow to take another stab at those wall paintings. Also, there's supposed to be a trail going through the woods below the castle which looks amazing. Also...I want another slice of that date and walnut cake.
The second is from today. I've been sketching (it's amazing how much of everything else I get done when I'm procrastinating on something) and here are the fruits of my labor:
The picture is based on a still from the third of these movies and may eventually be an illustration for a story, because goodness knows I like reusing things until they're too threadbare even to act as dust rags. But I think this has a lot of life to it; it's hard to beat a picture involving fans. (And yes. Yes, the movie with all the fans may have been inspired in part by Crown Duel. The auteur is not ashamed to admit her influences.)
Does anyone have any links to anything that would help me procrastinate? *makes puppy-dog eyes* Interesting stories, youtube videos, places in England that I really really really ought to visit?
The first is from yesterday. I took the bus to Pickering, because there is supposed to be a church there with medieval wall paintings of St. Katherine (!!!), so the trip was like working on my paper except without the actual working part. I couldn't find the church, but I did find date and walnut cake and a surprise!castle (only in England do you find castles in towns so small they have no postcards), and on the way back we had a lovely sunset.
I'm thinking of going back tomorrow to take another stab at those wall paintings. Also, there's supposed to be a trail going through the woods below the castle which looks amazing. Also...I want another slice of that date and walnut cake.
The second is from today. I've been sketching (it's amazing how much of everything else I get done when I'm procrastinating on something) and here are the fruits of my labor:
The picture is based on a still from the third of these movies and may eventually be an illustration for a story, because goodness knows I like reusing things until they're too threadbare even to act as dust rags. But I think this has a lot of life to it; it's hard to beat a picture involving fans. (And yes. Yes, the movie with all the fans may have been inspired in part by Crown Duel. The auteur is not ashamed to admit her influences.)
Does anyone have any links to anything that would help me procrastinate? *makes puppy-dog eyes* Interesting stories, youtube videos, places in England that I really really really ought to visit?
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