Silver Brooch

This was a small illustration of a silver brooch I did for the ODHS (Oliver & District Heritage Society) society newsletter. Myself and Janell, my awesome co-worker, were asked to write small bios for the newsletter today. We're the newest faces at the museum, and the director thought it would be a good idea to introduce us to all of the members! She asked me to do a little illustration, since it's one of my fields and interests and they'd put it in the newsletter. so..I picked a small artefact that I could do in one sitting, and did that! I did this piece on two sheets of perma-trace, one for pencil and the other for inking. The brooch was owned by a long-time resident and teacher of Oliver.

King Richard III coin. Ink Illustration.

This very rare Richard III Penny is for sale at Historic Coinage . I did the illustration for the seller, and it was a pretty fantastic opportunity! Said coin the current best example of this sort of penny, even better than the one held by the British Museum! This is the completed ink illustration done from a photograph of the coin itself. This illustration is considerably larger than the actual coin, but was not needed as a technical illustration for a journal or anything, so was not done to a particular scale. I used two pieces of permatrace (velum) for this illustration, one for the pencil layer, and one for the inking. I then scanned the image into photoshop and touched up particular areas for the final product digitally. Both the recto and verso sides are shown

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!