Arts of Pyracy
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Imagine yourself walking out the door, an eclectic handkerchief knotted smartly around your neck. Or maybe tied fashionably around your hair. Tucked in a pocket. Or wrapped on your wrist. The compliments pour in and you can say "Thanks! I made this!" This is your golden opportunity to share in a Pyracy Pub creative effort. Go on the account with us and receive a hand printed handkerchief when the booty is shared out. What is expected of you? Step 1: Sign up by July 14th. Step 2: Create a nautical or piracy related design as a printing block or plate. (This is the real work you need to do. More resources to follow on this.) Step 3: Send your block…
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I'm heading off to the final weekend of my localish renaissance festival tomorrow. I entirely failed at any plans for new garb despite my carefully laid plans. So this evening I've been digging through my bins to cobble something together from things I made nearly two decades ago. A small leather folder contained this note and some handmade goods from one of our departed friends and I find it is suddenly a maudlin evening here abouts.
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Ahoy! Starting to show some work from Pearl Leather.
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Surfin' the web a'while back and I runned across a feller who's facebook page is dedicated to OLD techniques and processes fer just about everything. Foods , building supplies, makin' bells, stonework, horn, hammerin' out gold leaf, makin saddles outta grass and the like. The videos are kinda longish and the translations from various languages is odd at times. Yer skills WILL be enriched by wotchin' this character. T'ain't necessarily pirate arts, just the way things was/is done by hand me down knowledge. www.facebook.com/eugeniomonesmalosttrades/
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Couple 'o years back I started trackin' down me ancestors. Had always heard me Grammaw sayin' we was Scottish, Irish and native Indian. Well... found Scottish, English, Cherokee and a large portion from the Netherlands/Bavaria. Not an Irishman to be found. Usin' the tools provided by Wikitree and Ancestry I's been able to dig up several stories of piratical interest. The earliest occurs in 1499 when Breton Pirate Colyn Dolphin ransoms a Sir Harry Stradling for 1 or 2 thousand marks (depending on the source). Sir Harry is 17 degrees away so It's just an interesting tale. Fast forward to the mid 1600's and the Scottish/English ancestors are gettin' deported and leavin' the…
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Between Duchess's thread here and conversations with Mary Diamond & Willaim Brand, I think we need to do a group block print on canvas project... Now that I'm obsessed by the topic, I ordered some Ornamental art design books from Dover.
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I've been working on a complicated process of designing and 3D printing relief plates. Then using the plates those to create the basis of 1/1 editions with a common printed element. The common element here is ,very loosely, a 16th century caravel.
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Hello! I’m Duchess. I’m your Arts of Pyracy Moderator. I spent my childhood summers working with my mom at one of the largest renaissance festivals in the country. I worked there again as an adult for almost a decade. I’ve been involved in a variety of historic, theater and arts related endeavors for much of my life, but stepped away from performing about 15 years ago. I still have most of my gear, living in totes in my small house. It might be angling for a come back or a side step, I don't know yet. I am a physicist by training, an inveterate and intemperate learner of skills by nature, nurture and inclination. I’m thrilled to see the Pub return, hav…
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Hi I would create a 17th Century Furry comic, the main character is based on Henry Morgan. I never wrote a comic before, but I need an Artist who is good and very cheap. LW
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Hi I was wondering for an official Pirate flag could one be of White with a Black Octopus in the middle of it, Yes I know that Pirate flags are ether Black or Red background with a some sort of Bone art in the middle. LW
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The Evolution of Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps http://news.yahoo.com/dragons-evolution-sea-monsters-medieval-maps-134711710.html
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For anyone who is a fan of the pronunciation manual on YouTube, I did a parody...as a PIRATE! See what happens when a pirate tells you how to pronounce...well...anything. Thanks guys, much love to you all!
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here is a painting i did yesterday based on a pic of billie beach of the forsaken crew. thought you guys would like to see it. http://www.facebook....157561807601317 i painted this in about 3 hours for a oil painting exercise. alla prima , meaning one sitting painting....or first attempt "no luck in the sweet trade." oil on canvas. 12x18
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Im looking for somebody who can draw the lion and scrol work above the trigger guard in black and white. Anybody willing to give it a shot?
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Figured since I joined, might as well share some of my more pirate-themed pieces I've done within the past couple o' days. Both pieces were done in Photoshop, freehand.
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I found this example of a loan agreement form from 1691 and after a little research found out that the form was created in the mid 1680s BRADFORD, William (printer). Partly-printed loan certificate, accomplished in manuscript, binding Weckhard Livering of Germantown to Thomas Hill for £20. [Philadelphia: William Bradford, c.1686-1690]. 1 p., small folio (295 x 185 mm). Signed by Livering with his mark, signed by three witnesses Arnoh Cassell, John Griffith and Thomas Herris. Docketing on verso. On watermarked laid paper. Condition: staining, separations at folds, tears with minor losses. among the earliest examples of printing in the middle colonies. "Born in the pari…
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So here's a little reproduction map that I've been working on for a couple of days. Certainly not the nicest one I've drawn but all in all I think it turned out well. It's 16"x21" on laid paper. The map is completey hand plotted, drawn, and inked with one of the main ou of period details being that I used pens with waterfast ink to prevent smudging should the map get wet. Comments and Crtisicm are welcome. Thanks Cran Map of the Bay of Cadiz by Cran Ohlandt, on Flickr Right hand corner detail by Cran Ohlandt, on Flickr Detail Ships by Cran Ohlandt, on Flickr Houses of Pleasure by Cran Ohlandt, on Flickr Cadiz detail by Cran Ohlandt, on Flickr
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It's been awhile. We're looking to start a sixth round of Pyrate Trading Cards. "Wot's that?" you call from atop the mainmast. A small simple sharing of artistic endeavors. And by small, we mean 'business card' size. Info: More info: Examples:
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This is a custom made King George the Second Letter of Marque I have just finished making for one of the bretheren. It is 18"x25" like many of the original ones and has the strip of seals at the bottom like like original documents of the era too. It was researched as much as I could from actual letters or marque, royal charters and indentures to make it as authentic as possible. It is witnessed by William Pitt who was secretary of state in 1758 and George Anson who was Lord Admiral of the admiralty at this time too. All the signatures are actual reproductions of surviving examples. It is printed on a heavyweight parchment vellum which feels and looks as close to an…
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Hey guys, I found this site and thought I should share, its got alot of really nice stuff! http://maps.bpl.org/explore_location/ Wes
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Started sketching and drawing again, when I was cleaning out the workshop I found an old atlas from the 30's. I used a combo of 2 old printouts of the Caribbean and the map of Cuba in the atlas to make this. It is on heavy paper and I used India ink on the old nib tip pens to ink it..... Bad pic, I had to use the phone... OK, got the camera to work:
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I know of one Black guy that piratered under the Spanish collors to hunt down english and other pirates. He had it's base at Guatemala. this makes me wander: Does any of you know about Spanish Letters of marque???
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I'm not starting a new journal round...been there, done that. This is a website that is offering a sketchbook/art journal challenge to about two-dozen artists, who will post pictures of their work, give tutorials, and talk about what supplies they used. The fun part is, they have asked anyone who wants to follow along with their own journals, to participate...in a non-official way. Here is the lowdown. Challenge For those of you who have blog sites, or web sites, here is a chance to post links to them, show off your work/writing, and get some traffic. There is one theme posted each month. Not too intimidating. You create a journal page/pages using that theme, post the…
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Does anyone have tapestry's? here is mine got it at a estate sale for $25
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I'm going to make ones like mine or just the old cloth look. But i'll put a couple updated ones for us.
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