A Visit to Mum...

I usually go to visit my Mum, who lives about two hours drive away, every month.  Apart from gardening and chatting, I also like to have a project to do!  This visit's project was to plan and begin a dragon box...

I wanted to do a heraldric dragon and not a fantasy one, so I followed examples set out in my heraldry book, adding my own style.  He will be gold eventually, but I had to do an under-coat of red first.

The side of the lid will be checkered and the design on the sides was inspired by an Islamic border.

So far, so good!!