Today's palette comes from a fabric label designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer in 1920. Hey folks! I'm back and we've officially cleared the first decade of palettes and entered the roaring '20s! I did actually start this poster on time, but between prepping for our toddler's first day of daycare, my own classes starting, surgery, two weekends of Pride vending, houseguests, and family gatherings, I haven't had a lot of time and/or energy to actually sit down and work on this. Honestly? It was mostly done, I just didn't like how blank the mountains looked so I needed the time and mental space to work on the texture. I'm not super pleased with the sky either, but I just couldn't quite figure out the cloud situation for whatever reason. But you know what I am really pleased with? The nuckelavee! I wish I could shout out the person on Inkblot who brought it to my attention, but guess how I found out that Inkblot has an issue where it's really easy to mistakenly delete someone else's comment. The [nuckelavee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuckelavee) is a Scottish cryptid/creature of folklore. There are a lot of different descriptions of it, but the most enduring one seems to be a demonic horse with the torso of a human man attached to its back as if he were riding it. The human is sometimes described as having long arms to drag on the ground and an oversized head. Neither horse nor human have skin. I chose Orkney specifically for the setting because one of the earliest sightings of the nuckelavee was in Orkney, and there's apparently a grave marker for the victim who was killed by it. I was less enthusiastic than normal about drawing the details on the rocks this time. Possibly just because it wasn't part of my original plan, maybe even because this poster had been sitting unfinished for so long. But I honestly had a really good time sketching in the muscles on the horse and rider. Like, they're not sitting in the composition great, but I'm moderately okay with that just because of how pleased I am with how the musculature came out. We're getting into some tertiary colors this decade with fewer palettes of just rainbow colors, and I'm excited!