Maying by Boat

Another Image of Maying

Notice the details.

Dancers in the background.

Riders returning to a town with branches of fresh new spring greenery.

The flute player accompanying a female lutenist.

The two rowers.

It's a late 15th century work and although it was for a Book of Hours its theme of May features thoroughly secular imagery. 

Enjoy.

 

Flemish Flower painting

FLOWERS FOR MAY

Our may theme is Maying and Flowers 

Flemish depictions of still lifes and flowers did not start in the 16th century. They date back to illuminated manuscripts like this Flemish Book of Hours with a page featuring flowers and butterflies and angels and the Virgin Mary on one page facing another page with a drawign of a strange battle between woodwoses and knights and other odd creatures.

MAI by Simon Bening

 SIMON BENING _MAI 

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There is a tradition or tropeor theme or whatever you want to call it of Illuminated Manuscripts featuring scenes of Early Summer "MAYING" excursions into the countryside to enjoy the pleasant spring weather and flowers and gathering branches for decorations.

This gouache watercolor is by Simon Bening a Flemish painter and while he has included aristocrats or townsmen on horse back holding branches they have gathered he has also featured a boatload of musicians and singers and captured the shimmer of sunlight on water!

MAY and 3D Marble

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#D Marble is an Inkscape Materials #filter that can produce stone like effects. I would recommend a wide bold heavy font and testings a variety of darker colors.

I used darker tones to try to make the final  effect a bit more natural owing for the highlights that suggest polished stone. I type the word stone because depending on the colors one could get granite or green green or a paler near white.