Nicaraguan Point

This is an illustration I did before the summer, of a lovely point from Nicaragua. The chert, I believe it was chert, was a fantastic blood red colour and was found in a burial urn, placed in the an individual's mouth. It was wonderful to work with such a unique piece! This point was found during excavations in Nicaragua by Dr. Geoffrey McCafferty.

Vessel from Cholula

Picture has my other blog's tags on it..but oh well. That is an illustration I did for Dr. McCafferty at the University of Calgary. It was an outline drawing of a vessel from Cholula, where the photo wasn't good enough for publication. It also seemed that the single photo was from the early 1900's and no others were around. Where the actual vessel is, I'm still not sure! Regardless, I had to restore / recreate part of the image on the vessel, using what I know about images used in mesoamerican cultures, and their tendency to like things being pretty mirrored and things. I could use one of the heads on one side to fix the opposite side. 'Pretend you're Mexican' My instructions went something like that. Awesome!

Ceramic head

This is a pencil sketch of a ceramic figurine head from Mesoamerica. There are two more views of the head I haven't posted, but they look very similar to these ones. Figurines aren't my strongest suit, but I'm very pleased with how this turned out! What do you think? How could my ceramics be improved?

Hello everyone!

Hello, and welcome to my archaeological Illustration page!

My name is Robyn Lacy, and I'm an archaeology student at the University of Calgary.
I'm currently finishing my second year of the program, and am off to work as an illustrator for a field school / excavation and survey project for 6 weeks this summer.

Since deciding to become involved in archaeological illustration as a career path, I have had two commissioned pieces, from profs at the U of C, for publication. Both of these pieces were from photographs, and one involved recreating the illustration on a vessel from the Mesoamerican city of Cholula as the only available photo had terrible glare destroying part of the image (and was from 1908)

The image below was part of a project I did at a field school last summer, with Dr. Harold Mytum. I was doing a watercolour of the re-opened trenches.