The brass effigy of Sir Simon de Wensley (d. 1394) is still situated in Holy Trinity Church (Wensley, North Yorkshire), where he was rector. I was drawn to this monument by it's exquisiteness and fine detail. As of writing this, I'm finishing up the carving phase, and look forward to painting it over the next couple of days. I decided not to replicate the ornamentation in full resolution, since I am finding that as I progress through this group (and the technique of oil on ca

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