Hell Horse/Demonsteed

[aaronc]

Working on a hell horse gentleman,.

 

Greek in origin,..the classical trained/educated horners of the time would have been familiar with the symbol. There are around a dozen attributed to 1 single maker,..but multiple period makers had used this symbol on their horns. Meaning is a little up for interpretation but a couple of theories are it represented the death and disease of war,...or the wish to bring death to an enemy type thing.

Only the outline has 1st pass of ink at the moment...all of the details in the neck, wings, tail area are only penciled and scribed. Still have some details to pencil in and scribe before adding some more ink.
Horn was made by Bill Smith quite a few years ago.

 

 

 

 

[Gene Howe]

Gonna be another beaut!

[Gunny]

I like it so far!!!!

 

[Cal]

Do keep posting those pics Aaron, it is so interesting to follow your work!

[aaronc]

Penciled in some period script and other details today. Ready for the scribe next session.

 

 

 

[Gene Howe]

[aaronc]

Hell Horse pretty much done,..will be moving to the other side in a week or 2,...

 

 

[Gene Howe]

Another masterful job! 

[Cal]

I'm near speechless Aaron, your eye for detail is amazing!

[DuckSoup]

As always, a beautiful piece.

 

18 hours ago, aaronc said:

will be moving to the other side in a week or 2,...

 you do mean the other side of the horn & not the dark sideright.

[aaronc]

2 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

As always, a beautiful piece.

 

 you do mean the other side of the horn & not the dark sideright.

 

 

   Assuming the "other side" meaning was and is still up for interpretation,.... then yes I absolutely meant the other side of the of the horn. NOOooooo doubts about it     That being said if I'm not paying for it and someone else's activities aren't endangering my wife and kid on the road...I don't care what another man does.........and I think that's fair 

 

 

That was good Duck,..I didn't see that coming 

[Gunny]

Beautiful work!!

 

[aaronc]

Have some script/period rhyme going on the other side. Line work was done last week,..got one line penciled in today.

"To Arms to Arms O Free born Sons"
 

 

 

[Grandpadave52]

WOW! Just now getting up to date on what you've been working on the past few months. Amazing eye and ability for transference from page to work. Your patience for this degree of detail to recreate is beyond words Aaron. Thanks for sharing the journey thus far.

[aaronc]

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[Grandpadave52]

Great progress Aaron. Thanks for the update.

[Gunny]

[Gene Howe]

12 hours ago, aaronc said:

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[Cal]

That is coming along nicely Aaron.  What patience you must have to tackle a project like this

[Woodman]

On 1/27/2022 at 9:21 AM, aaronc said:

"To Arms to Arms O Free born Sons"

As is often the case with musical greats of the past, Loving the B-Side!