Equestrian Polish, Eurasian and the Americas history and horsemanship - from Bronze Age to circa1939AD. Historical equestrian art, my own artwork; reconstructions, and some traditional art media and digital artwork-related topics. All rights reserved unless permitted by 'Dariusz caballeros' aka DarioTW, copyleft or fair use.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Nowruz e Shoma Pirooz & 'Fantasia ' on the Indo-Scythian theme
Salve,
I have been testing new brushes and 'upped' GIMP thanks to splendid work of monsieur David Revoy, one excellent French artist and open-source software developer, - his great website http://www.davidrevoy.com/portfolio.html
Nowruz or New Year - of the almost three thousand year old Iranian tradition - is approaching fast March 20-24 (even in Uiguristan or Tarim Basin, China) and my 'compadre' Dr Kaveh Farrokh, whose new book on the Qajar (Kadjar) and later Iranian military history from Osprey will come out this summer, has a very nice article on his website about the Nowruz tradition
http://www.kavehfarrokh.com/news/professor-shapur-shahbazi-nowruz-in-the-islamic-era/
Happy Nowruz to all my Iranian, Kurdish and Turkish (from Europe to Tarim Basin) readers, and to all who would like to celebrate this ancient holiday!
As I am scratching my shaved head with my Wacom 'brush-pen' I think I may still 'paint' something for the Nowruz - perhaps shahanshah Dārayavahuš and his neighing Nissean stallion :)
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ps
the sketch above is a pure fantasy - but does have some elements of the Iranian (Median) horse tack from around VII century BC, Indo-Scythian attire from around I century AD, and Sarmatian and Parthian short sword III-I century BC.
Labels:
ancient horse tack,
Gimp,
Indo-Saka,
Indo-Scythian,
Nowruz,
Parthian shot,
sketches
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2 comments:
That's a pretty convincing fantasy! :)
*sigh* IndoScythians are another subject I wish I knew more about. So much to learn and so little time.
tempus fugit fast indeed :)
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