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The swirl also made a comeback at my upper arms and clavicle and thighs and rump in the form of a double swirl. The triskele seemed like a sure bet that it was used and got a prominent placing on the pectorials. Thinking about the way the possible paintings on the coins presented themself i got my wife to paint me in probable ways.Р”Р‡or the face i choose the first coin above as it was so clear and iconic with its swirl. So, for this part of the project i went with just a basic blue paint (a decision my wife later lamented as we still find blue paint sticking to odd places) You can read about my tryouts with verdigris as warpaint HERE The Verdigris is ready for harvest and the Woad is just waiting.

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Also i have not yet figured out a smart medium for the pigment to keep it on the skin without the bodyhet melting it and making it run, or making it dry and cake and crackРІР‚В¦. I did not have the time or the preperations in order to test these different pigmenttypes. Greenish copper verdigris have been suggested, Woad is a popular theory, orangered rustbased color have been mentioned, especially with the Iberian celts. The coloration of the warpaint is as debated as the warpaint itself. Verdigris crystals and two balls of 100 year woad. РІР‚В¦.and, yes, i know that the wast majority of the celts had armour and was a big inspiration to the armament and the armour of the roman legions, and probably invented the chainmailРІР‚В¦.

And it is not really that odd, the greeks and others also have a history of fighting naked. The nakedness i will adress in another post (one you can read here! ), but it seemed to have been a rather more common thing then some like to belive. I also retained a moustasch that is mentioned in the ancient texts and visualised in statues. I chose to go for the things described of celts, like РІР‚Сњthe used lime in thier hair and swept it back, looking like satyrsРІР‚Сњ, a hairstyle also seen on РІР‚Сњthe dying celtРІР‚Сњ. Next i wanted to try how this might look on a painted warrior. The wheel of Taranis and the favored swirl seemed to me as a probable celtic decoration, and so in the realm of possibility. These I made a kind of chart from and tried to draw a bit more clearly. I took the coins i could find online (i am sure there are more out there that has not found thier way out into the big wide web). Then it is REASONABLE to assume that the coins show decorative designs mentioned in the texts. Here we have descriptions of celts being painted (or other kind of patterened) and we find pictures of patterened celts, from thier own culture. The short meaning here is that if you have a text describing something and then find an item resembling what the text say, you have a РІР‚Сњthing-text correlationРІР‚Сњ. In archeology there is a thing called Things and text correlation.

So, i now had a couple of coins showing designs on celtic faces. Minting coins is a move to show power, so it will be important to have the coins show who has the power to mint them. As these coins are from all around the celtdom i think we can assume they are showing something rather basic in celtic culture, something that is РІР‚Сњvery celticРІР‚Сњ and reqognized as celtic of all that handle these coins. There is also the problem that many of the coins is based on greek or roman coins that degenerate in artistic quality in each generation, and some aspects that might have been something clearly visible at gen 1 is just an odd line of dots in gen 5.Р”В«UT! At least here we have Celtic faces, with some kind of decorations on them. Now, there is of course no way to know if these coins show tattoos, scarifications, warpaint or just some surrealistic addition of unclear meaningРІР‚В¦ Of course we see what we think we see, so my interpretation of the coins turned to warpaint. I was starting down that path myself as that at least would show an eastetic from that culture and age.Р”Р„s i stumbled around blindly, looking at as many things i could to get a feeling for thier artistic language, i noted someone talking about celtic coins and the possibilities of these showing tattoos. Some other reenactors base their motives in decorative patterns from jewellery and other artifacts. I wanted something moreРІР‚В¦ period to base my guesses on. It all seemed mostly modern eastetichs to me.

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Everything from the latest movie with some celts in, Braveheart, american football cheek soot, tigerstripe cammoflageРІР‚В¦. Some other reenactors seems to have very little to base thier warpaint on.

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IF they decorated thier body in some way, how did it look like?Р”Р„s i entered into this conundrum i had no idea how to adress the problem. These questions aside, you land in the next one. Was it paint? Or tattoos? Or even possibly scarification? The issue of celtic warpaint is much debated.

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