Week 8 - #2

Next, I worked on filling the second largest illustration of the four pages of manuscript. This is the final picture on the final page of the story. It shows how once Thomas Rhymer returns to civilization; the fairy queen vows to send him a sign to come home to fairyland to be with her. She sends this message in the form of two white dear, one stag and one doe. I put the fairy queen’s crown around the neck of the doe as a way to show the viewer the deer’s connection to the story. As with all the paintings I used the same color paint for the sky and landscape to try to show a consistency. I used a ballpoint pen to illustrate some elements of the painting such as the eyes of the deer. I know outlines of objects is a frequent occurrence in historical manuscripts, so I attempted to replicate that.