Sunday, April 24, 2011

A couple of newer sketches

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Salve, I have been playing with MyPaint a lot - and lately my favorite brushes have been Devaad4's watercolor set and Tanda's one, ...
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The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses by Rarey

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Salve, short and sweet :) for all enthusiasts of the history of horse training: of the most interesting books on horse 'taming ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Wesolego Smigusa Dyngusa, Happy Easter, Feliz Pasquas

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Salve,  finally Spring has come to our Northern Hemisphere and with it Easter - Па́сха,   and also Smigus Dyngus (Easter Monday/Dyngus D...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Horsemanship pro is back

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Salve, just wanted to share with you the news that my most favorite horsemanship site (acidic language, irony and satire at times with hu...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Tolstaya Mogila Kurgan - article and films

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Salve, a quick entry today - I want to share with you several finds from the Internet related to the famous pectoral from on of the Po...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ancient Eurasian Nomad Horse -saddle and bit

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Salve, my sketches of the month of March seem to continue in the theme of the Eurasian nomads of old, I hope to your contentment as well. I...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Another Indo-Saka 'fantasia'

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Salve,  continuing with the spirit of Nowruz, I sketched a couple more Indo-Saka  archers, and here you can find a sketch that has been ma...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Nowruz e Shoma Pirooz & 'Fantasia ' on the Indo-Scythian theme

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Salve, I have been testing new brushes and 'upped' GIMP thanks to splendid work of monsieur David Revoy, one excellent French ar...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Sketches novae II

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Salve, some sketches and work in progress: from Scythia to early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.... and as usual some horses.
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Sarmatian Warrior of Kosika Vessel

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Salve, we, Polish people, used to call ourselves 'Sarmaci' (the Sarmatians) after the dragon-standard wielding equestrians who fo...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Daylight saving time - if only a horse could laugh

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Salve,  in US of A. almost all the states will change to so called Daylight Saving Time tonight (well,  this night - from Saturday to Sunda...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Scythian Horse sketch

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Salve, Since I have not done any writing on the Scythians for a while, I am going to correct this a bit as it reflects my current reading a...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Some Sketches series update I

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Salve, a little update on the sketch of a Pancerny (medium cavalry, from around mid-XVI century  until 1648 known as kozak/kozacka cavalry,...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

XVI century pilgrims going to Jerusalem - German woodcut I

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Salve, yesterday I presented this whole woodcut and today, as promissed, some more thoughts on the lance-armed riders of this G...
Monday, February 28, 2011

XVI century pilgrims going to Jerusalem - German woodcut

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salve, this time a German woodcut from the second half of XVI century shows a caravan - consisting of a group of Christian pilgrims, rid...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Interesting woodcut re Ottoman Turks at war

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Salve, again scouting the Net I came across this interesting later XVI century German woodcut showing 4 Ottoman horsemen escorting a ver...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Turkish horse of Cavendish

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Salve, A Turkish horse - engraving by Lucas Vostermans Jr. after Abraham Van Diepenbeeck for William Cavendish, Duke of Newca...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Ottoman Turkish Spahis - German woodcut of XVI century

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Salve, Scouting the net and libraries I found this little woodcut done sometimes during the second half of XVI century, showing the Otto...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

1520s German woodcuts on two different 'seats'

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Salve, Blog has been slow this month and a bit dried, but nevertheless galloping forward I would like, and I fully intend to take you along...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Iron Age war-hammer from Hungary

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Salve, effigies of horses in nomadic and ancient art are always wonderful to behold. My favorites are the remains of the  Eurasian steppes ...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Some Sketches

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Salve, we had some cold days and nights in Colorado - and lovely views of Pike's Peak snowed-in. I am attaching here some sketches tha...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Training horses for war XVI century

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Salve, a quick but very telling image that speaks for itself training horses for war during the Renaissance, when firearms became part of...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Sketch on the Saka/Scythian theme

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Salve, it has been a while since i visited the Great Eurasian steppe. So let us return for a few moments, to take a look at the warriors...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Early hussars - 1510-20s

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Salve, German woodcuts and  printmaking of XVI century contains some most interesting images regarding early hussars and light cavalry deve...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

! Vivat Kielbasa !

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Salve,  'The Saveur'   www.saveur.com/article/kitchen/The-SAVEUR-100-Chefs-Edition?cmpid=teaser magazine  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

A little Morisco curb-bit I

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Salve, I am preparing some drawings on curb-bits and terminology, and I got this image (woodcut print0 from the Polish-Lithuanian winged hu...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Polish documentary Klushino on youtube

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Salve,  documentary film on Klushino battle of 1610 and... 2010 :)   Documentary on Klushiono Caveat -only in Polish, but still worthw...