thumbs up: penwork; thumbs down: Gothic calligraphy

This was my project for Sunday:


Lindquistringes for Katherine Percival


A back-log Lindquistringes, based on British Library MS Arundel 134 f. 2, France, 2nd half of the 13th C. I'm much happier with how this penwork initial turned out (the ratio of white space to colored space in the inner bit is much closer to the original), though I still feel like I don't know how to finish off the ends -- my flourishes at the end of the vertical block aren't right.

And, man, Gothic hands are my downfall. This is a very sorry attempt. I just can't seem to keep all my angles the same and all my vertical lines straight. sigh.

A day in the life of...

The Dragon's Tale for the last few months has been running a series on "A day in the life of..." various officers (and the King and Queen), which I've been enjoying a lot. I also thought it might be interesting to translate the concept into an LJ meme of sorts. I know that my life is way different from the lives of lots of the people who read my journal, and since "different from" is a symmetric relation, it means theirs are very different from mine. So what is an average day in the life of aryanhwy like?

( I'll put it behind a cut because it got rather long. )

So what about the rest of you?