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Aug. 10th, 2011
I finally finished off my mill report today, which was a relief. Spent the morning struggling with Adobe Illustrator completing a very colourful phased site plan, and Bob's Your Uncle!!
The other monumental thing that happened to me today was the fact that I finally embarked upon my most difficult Bronze Age metalwork drawing yet. It's a Late Bronze Age shield from Lugtonridge in Ayrshire - the original pencil drawing encroaches beyond the limits of an A0 sheet of paper, so it's meant that even reducing the drawing down to a reasonable size has been an epic struggle. For inking I've reduced it enough for it to fit on two A3 sheets of tracing paper, but I'm going to have to be careful with the stippling as it's going to have to be reduced again so that it fits half an A4 sheet.
I'll try and remember to post a photo of the shield tomorrow, so you can see what I'm up against. It's a wonderful object, but when I first came face to face with it, I thought, ulp! Everything else I've drawn until now has been kindergarten stuff. This is Postgrad!! To add to my woes, it is graced with 29 concentric rings of repousse bosses interspersed with raised circular ribs, and the original drawing is flawed - on one side of my drawing, one of the rings has mysteriously vanished and I've only got 28 rings present. So I'll have to sort this little problem out, too.
Watch this space...
Then I went horse-riding. Diva has had a week's box rest, and is now sound in walk. But she keeps going lame in trot. My instructor still reckons it's in the pelvis - if it was the back, she'd still be lame in walk.
So I was reunited with Molly. Who's lazy, stiff as a post, and prone to spotting Daleks, vampires and cybermen in every jump stand and mounting block. I felt really useless, but it's been about four weeks since I actually did anything complicated on a horse, so perhaps it's not surprising that I'm a bit rusty myself.
And tomorrow, I'm going to take a break from Italian posts and introduce you to the very lovely Lannercost Priory...
The other monumental thing that happened to me today was the fact that I finally embarked upon my most difficult Bronze Age metalwork drawing yet. It's a Late Bronze Age shield from Lugtonridge in Ayrshire - the original pencil drawing encroaches beyond the limits of an A0 sheet of paper, so it's meant that even reducing the drawing down to a reasonable size has been an epic struggle. For inking I've reduced it enough for it to fit on two A3 sheets of tracing paper, but I'm going to have to be careful with the stippling as it's going to have to be reduced again so that it fits half an A4 sheet.
I'll try and remember to post a photo of the shield tomorrow, so you can see what I'm up against. It's a wonderful object, but when I first came face to face with it, I thought, ulp! Everything else I've drawn until now has been kindergarten stuff. This is Postgrad!! To add to my woes, it is graced with 29 concentric rings of repousse bosses interspersed with raised circular ribs, and the original drawing is flawed - on one side of my drawing, one of the rings has mysteriously vanished and I've only got 28 rings present. So I'll have to sort this little problem out, too.
Watch this space...
Then I went horse-riding. Diva has had a week's box rest, and is now sound in walk. But she keeps going lame in trot. My instructor still reckons it's in the pelvis - if it was the back, she'd still be lame in walk.
So I was reunited with Molly. Who's lazy, stiff as a post, and prone to spotting Daleks, vampires and cybermen in every jump stand and mounting block. I felt really useless, but it's been about four weeks since I actually did anything complicated on a horse, so perhaps it's not surprising that I'm a bit rusty myself.
And tomorrow, I'm going to take a break from Italian posts and introduce you to the very lovely Lannercost Priory...
I finally finished off my mill report today, which was a relief. Spent the morning struggling with Adobe Illustrator completing a very colourful phased site plan, and Bob's Your Uncle!!
The other monumental thing that happened to me today was the fact that I finally embarked upon my most difficult Bronze Age metalwork drawing yet. It's a Late Bronze Age shield from Lugtonridge in Ayrshire - the original pencil drawing encroaches beyond the limits of an A0 sheet of paper, so it's meant that even reducing the drawing down to a reasonable size has been an epic struggle. For inking I've reduced it enough for it to fit on two A3 sheets of tracing paper, but I'm going to have to be careful with the stippling as it's going to have to be reduced again so that it fits half an A4 sheet.
I'll try and remember to post a photo of the shield tomorrow, so you can see what I'm up against. It's a wonderful object, but when I first came face to face with it, I thought, ulp! Everything else I've drawn until now has been kindergarten stuff. This is Postgrad!! To add to my woes, it is graced with 29 concentric rings of repousse bosses interspersed with raised circular ribs, and the original drawing is flawed - on one side of my drawing, one of the rings has mysteriously vanished and I've only got 28 rings present. So I'll have to sort this little problem out, too.
Watch this space...
Then I went horse-riding. Diva has had a week's box rest, and is now sound in walk. But she keeps going lame in trot. My instructor still reckons it's in the pelvis - if it was the back, she'd still be lame in walk.
So I was reunited with Molly. Who's lazy, stiff as a post, and prone to spotting Daleks, vampires and cybermen in every jump stand and mounting block. I felt really useless, but it's been about four weeks since I actually did anything complicated on a horse, so perhaps it's not surprising that I'm a bit rusty myself.
And tomorrow, I'm going to take a break from Italian posts and introduce you to the very lovely Lannercost Priory...
The other monumental thing that happened to me today was the fact that I finally embarked upon my most difficult Bronze Age metalwork drawing yet. It's a Late Bronze Age shield from Lugtonridge in Ayrshire - the original pencil drawing encroaches beyond the limits of an A0 sheet of paper, so it's meant that even reducing the drawing down to a reasonable size has been an epic struggle. For inking I've reduced it enough for it to fit on two A3 sheets of tracing paper, but I'm going to have to be careful with the stippling as it's going to have to be reduced again so that it fits half an A4 sheet.
I'll try and remember to post a photo of the shield tomorrow, so you can see what I'm up against. It's a wonderful object, but when I first came face to face with it, I thought, ulp! Everything else I've drawn until now has been kindergarten stuff. This is Postgrad!! To add to my woes, it is graced with 29 concentric rings of repousse bosses interspersed with raised circular ribs, and the original drawing is flawed - on one side of my drawing, one of the rings has mysteriously vanished and I've only got 28 rings present. So I'll have to sort this little problem out, too.
Watch this space...
Then I went horse-riding. Diva has had a week's box rest, and is now sound in walk. But she keeps going lame in trot. My instructor still reckons it's in the pelvis - if it was the back, she'd still be lame in walk.
So I was reunited with Molly. Who's lazy, stiff as a post, and prone to spotting Daleks, vampires and cybermen in every jump stand and mounting block. I felt really useless, but it's been about four weeks since I actually did anything complicated on a horse, so perhaps it's not surprising that I'm a bit rusty myself.
And tomorrow, I'm going to take a break from Italian posts and introduce you to the very lovely Lannercost Priory...