In the past few months I have tried my hand at a few other creative outlets I was itching to try for some time now. Water color painting was something I occasionally did for fun and I combined that with linoleum carving to create a little map. My wife and I had just finished reading a book called The Historian where our heroes fly all across Europe in search of the Tomb of Dracula. Maps, languages, and iconography all play a part so I thought it might be fun to put it all together.
In the novel as our heroes track Dracula across generations they are gifted suspicious books, all marked with the insignia for the Order of the Dragon. Usually an ill omen, in this case I carved a stamp to send letters to other members of our reading group.
Marked with locations from eastern Europe, I mailed this out when we completed the reading and I think everyone else got a kick out of receiving their own map of Dracula's Tomb.
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