Jacobean Card

I've added ticks to the Gods of Snow quote. It adds to the illegibility amazingly!

They started showing Christmas ads on TV a couple of nights ago, and I'm late in doing anything about it (Christmas, that is)

I shall have a break from script analysis work, and do up a card to print, and then make into matted cards for my friends. (I also have Dianne's notepaper and envelopes to print out by the 24th of this month).

I'll send a mail to the scribies tomorrow. I'm a bit concerned that there were so many hits on my blog, undoubted copies of the list of script analysis questions and the list is still growing and being refined as I work through the Bedford Hours script analysis. And doing this card will delay the finishing of this further. Also, I need to re-jig the Method of Shading and Highlighting piece as per Randy's comments.

Anyway, worries aside (I'm remarkable good at pressuring myself), I'm going to do some painting! Yay! I love painting.

Here's the design the card will be based on. It's an historical Jacobean tapestry (another thing I'd like to do).
Please excuse my hack Photoshop work to remove some elements that are on the border that I won't incude in my design

Here's the rough of my design
I'm quite pleased with it. The central trunk and the big flower are slightly off centre, to add interest, and the flowers, leaves and berries kind of point around in an oval around the page to bring the eye around the picture.

A lot of colour mixing to do! I briefly considered doing it folk art style - I had a lot of success with a picture, that was vaguely similiar that I did a few years ago for a friend for a Christmas present that I did in the folk art style.
Then again, looking closely at the original, the threads look like lymned strokes - and I'll have a lot of fun doing it traditionally.