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An animated Nicholas Culpeper gives the 17th century equivalent of a TED Talk on rhubarb: "It is under the dominion of Mars . . . It is good against venomous bites." https://t.co/Jfvq6xqaRO
Marco Polo's visit to the mountains of Tangut, China, where he found rhubarb 'in great abundance'. Another snippet of animation: so far I've just got his hand moving but the final version will include lip-syncing, eye movement and I think that hat needs to wobble about a bit too.
No expense spared: in today's test animation we've got Ghengis Khan's camels, laden with rhubarb, trekking across the vast open spaces of the Gobi Desert. I can never draw a scene like this without thinking of the main theme from 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
Chinese Rhubarb Medicine, 2,700 years ago. As is the case today, it's wise not to exceed the recommended dose. @RhubarbFestival https://t.co/G4EjYvXRVA
Contents of the larder, Sandal, 1322. A momentous year in the history of the castle. https://t.co/MKdmYA8NTP
The ruins of the Great Hall at Sandal Castle. The cellar window on the left has a groove in the windowsill to take a wooden shutter. https://t.co/6beD4WuZJx
Adding colour to my illustration of Royalists constructing the Civil War defences at Sandal Castle. https://t.co/w3V5UYUS5w
For the local history section of my Rhubarb Sketchbook animation, I can draw on a host of colourful characters but just adding a few frames into my storyboard, I realise that I could easily devote a whole cartoon to the life and adventures of Prophet Wroe https://t.co/j7vG7vkTwa
Howgate Wonder: last year was our best ever for cordon apples but this year the few we’ve had have all been blemished or pecked by birds. Hopefully. now I’ve refreshed the soil by adding a mulch of garden compost, they’ll do better… https://t.co/Mv6ylU2Qyp