HolBolDoArt🏳️🌈
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Holly! Artist. Illustrator. WotC. Musician. Writer. Poet? Spooky! #art #illustration
Four Legged Tripod and sheep enthusiast.
🏳️🌈 (She/Her)
Website: holboldoart.com
Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/holboldoart
Four Legged Tripod and sheep enthusiast.
🏳️🌈 (She/Her)
Website: holboldoart.com
Prints: inprnt.com/gallery/holboldoart
Ooooo I was just there too hello welcome it's a place you can be
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ooooo I was just there too hello welcome it's a place you can be
Goooood morning it's spooky fog day
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Goooood morning it's spooky fog day
I went back in August and took pictures!
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I went back in August and took pictures!
Spooking around the near complete early 13th century church in Skelton, North Yorkshire (with obligatory Victorian furniture)
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Spooking around the near complete early 13th century church in Skelton, North Yorkshire (with obligatory Victorian furniture)
Did Jan van Eyck have to go this nuts with rendering? Nah. But I'm very happy he did.
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Did Jan van Eyck have to go this nuts with rendering? Nah. But I'm very happy he did.
Nah, I've seen this floated on here before, but as far as I know none of these were ever designed with that in mind, purely as flat projections. They simply weren't that sophisticated. In some places, they had extra bits in complete disregard of the ground level viewer.
November 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nah, I've seen this floated on here before, but as far as I know none of these were ever designed with that in mind, purely as flat projections. They simply weren't that sophisticated. In some places, they had extra bits in complete disregard of the ground level viewer.
Very slowly trying to figure out this arrangement is "fun"!!! (Why do I do this)
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Very slowly trying to figure out this arrangement is "fun"!!! (Why do I do this)
But what if more detail though
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
But what if more detail though
As a change from lots of nature paintings, this one is mostly about surfaces
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
As a change from lots of nature paintings, this one is mostly about surfaces
Sketching arches on location today
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sketching arches on location today
Stolen from some real medieval tiles I saw on the weekend
These bad boys are ~800 years old
These bad boys are ~800 years old
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Stolen from some real medieval tiles I saw on the weekend
These bad boys are ~800 years old
These bad boys are ~800 years old
I hate my hands I hate my hands I hate my hands
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I hate my hands I hate my hands I hate my hands
Who likes old buildings (hint: it's me)
October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Who likes old buildings (hint: it's me)
Well that's the first of these cracked, I'll see if I can produce a diagram of Tintern Abbey's west window soon too
Fun fact that second example appears in a painting I did a few years ago (but I didn't geometrically construct it then)
Fun fact that second example appears in a painting I did a few years ago (but I didn't geometrically construct it then)
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Well that's the first of these cracked, I'll see if I can produce a diagram of Tintern Abbey's west window soon too
Fun fact that second example appears in a painting I did a few years ago (but I didn't geometrically construct it then)
Fun fact that second example appears in a painting I did a few years ago (but I didn't geometrically construct it then)
First attempt, used the points to make a trapezoid, bisected one of the corners to find the centre, et voilà, a circle. I'll try more cases at bigger scales to see if it holds, but it does look like you've cracked it
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
First attempt, used the points to make a trapezoid, bisected one of the corners to find the centre, et voilà, a circle. I'll try more cases at bigger scales to see if it holds, but it does look like you've cracked it
The solution seems to be that each of the upper circles falls into a kite shape formed form the tangents of each of the arches it borders. So to find the correct tangents without knowing where the circle will touch first...
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The solution seems to be that each of the upper circles falls into a kite shape formed form the tangents of each of the arches it borders. So to find the correct tangents without knowing where the circle will touch first...
This time I know I've definitely gone way overboard with detail
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This time I know I've definitely gone way overboard with detail
It is! It's stunning in person, this crappy phone picture from 3 years ago does not remotely do it justice.
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It is! It's stunning in person, this crappy phone picture from 3 years ago does not remotely do it justice.
Slightly off again, because while the circles do touch the same arcs, they don't sit on the same tangents. Makes it impossible to draw a straight line through all of them.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Slightly off again, because while the circles do touch the same arcs, they don't sit on the same tangents. Makes it impossible to draw a straight line through all of them.
It looks that way, but in practice sadly it's not that easy. It doesn't produce a clean result
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It looks that way, but in practice sadly it's not that easy. It doesn't produce a clean result
Okay, this aspect is one of the fundamental features of the intersecting style. The reason I don't believe it starts at the top or that the circles are anything but placed within these frames is that this arrangement appears more often without circles than it does with, especially early on.
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Okay, this aspect is one of the fundamental features of the intersecting style. The reason I don't believe it starts at the top or that the circles are anything but placed within these frames is that this arrangement appears more often without circles than it does with, especially early on.
And the diagram for the main parts, if anybody's interested! A relatively simple one, but satisfying to draw. It's all concentric circles this time!
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
And the diagram for the main parts, if anybody's interested! A relatively simple one, but satisfying to draw. It's all concentric circles this time!