06-10-2008, 09:31 PM
Hi John
Glad you liked the picture. Made well before my costume books so I might change some things there. Otherwise everything was based on Vindolanda finds including the small portable altar in the right corner and a small bell. By using 'Action Men' and card models I managed to fit four bunk beds with space for a table into a barrack room quite easily! However for the purposes of the illustration I omitted the nearside bunk from the viewpoint I eventually used.
There is another line drawing of a Barrack room in the book 'Roman Forts' by Anne Johnson.
Graham.
Quote:I really like Graham Sumner's illustration of a barrack room at Vindolanda, readily available in "Garrison Life on The Roman Frontier" by Birley. We get a hearth, bunk beds, graffiti and lots of straw on the floor. I like the atmosphere.
Glad you liked the picture. Made well before my costume books so I might change some things there. Otherwise everything was based on Vindolanda finds including the small portable altar in the right corner and a small bell. By using 'Action Men' and card models I managed to fit four bunk beds with space for a table into a barrack room quite easily! However for the purposes of the illustration I omitted the nearside bunk from the viewpoint I eventually used.
There is another line drawing of a Barrack room in the book 'Roman Forts' by Anne Johnson.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
