East of the Bear West of the Girl 8

The next few paintings will appear like this. I've finished with all the full page no-text images, now are smaller ones that have room for some text.

East of the Bear West of the Girl 7

These are some patterns for the book. These will festoon the text pages.

Head 2

I think this study is an improvement from my last face. The trick is to quickly switch between the eyedrop tool and the brush. using the colors on the blurred edge of painted marks can somewhat imitate blending techniques in paint.

This head is the Duchess of Richmond by Peter Lely, the favored court painter of Charles the 2nd. She was one of the women who famously refused the king's sexual advances. The hair on the forehead may be a little odd. I didn't really bother to paint her pearl necklace on. This was more about he head.

East of the Girl West of the Bear 6

Here are all the illuminated letters for the book to be placed around. They are opaque letters with transparent edges in PNG format. I didn't want to make them super-medieval-manuscript-letters-like because those are often alien to the point of illegible. I kept them quite thick and recognisable.