I have graduated from carving to painting with the first piece in the "Medieval Effigies" project. The man here is Sir Robert de Septvans (d. 1306), one of the knights of the Shire of Kent for Edward I. The reference image I am using is a rubbing taken from the original brass monument. The monuments themselves, being etched, flat surfaces, lend themselves perfectly to this low-tech technique of reproduction, and yield black and white images that are, in fact, more clear than