On Again Off Again

I originally purchased this piece to go with my other sea battles gear and I started painting this piece years ago. This was before I had a decent pair of glasses. It was all touch and go back then, but I am back and giving it another try...

I do a little painitng in-between the wait for the glue to dry on the other projects I am working on. Who knows how this monster sea turtle ended up on this set of sea boulders and who knows how long its carcass has been here. It might have been for centuries.

A Map of Prythian

“I looked northward and stepped back again. The six other courts of Prythian occupied a patchwork of territories. Autumns, Summer, and Winters were easy enough to pick out. Then above them, two glowing courts; the southernmost one, a softer redder pallet, the Dawn Court; above in bright gold and yellow and blue, the Day Court. And above that, perched in a frozen mountainous spread of darkness and stars, the sprawling massive territory of the Night Court.”

A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

Accompanying maps are always a nice addition to any story, especially when the author is trying to create a realistic imaginary world. Mass does a great job in her “A Court of Thorns and Roses”. This is the first in her series by the same name.

Once I got into the text, I had a hard time putting it down. It has a great plot: the forces of good against the forces of evil, your typical fantasy genre. The story is around a female protagonist , a mortal huntress, and her High Lord Farie lover who quite reluctantly fight the powers of darkness that are trying to take over Prythian.

An Island of the Imagination

There have been plenty of fictitious islands, lands, and worlds created by fiction writers. Think of Dune, Middle Earth, and Kong Island, however how many of these islands made it to a real cartographic map? Or have been claimed my the British Crown. Frisland Island is one such island that was a figment of someones imagination that actually met both of these situations.