Dr Dayanna Knight

I study the medieval North Atlantic while being a Jill-of-all-trades. Creator of the Viking Coloring Book Project. Commissions open.

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Link to my website with the active socials I'm keeping with moving forward. https://t.co/j5f9v3d1O0

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I just received 3 coffees from Something something library on @buymeacoffee! https://t.co/TA42SnpDL4

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HOWEVER, last year's grant funding allowed me the chance to figure out a way forward for all of the coloring book titles I'd like to produce. So watch this space as the current plan is to have the Norse Mythology volume ready for orders later this year.

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Nine years ago today I received notification that the Kickstarter campaign for The Viking Coloring Book had reached its goal less than 3 days in. It would go on to more than double that goal, helping to launch my work in historical themed coloring books.

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Today that first volume is officially out of print. I've been working on the subsequent volumes over the years but my publisher/agent situation hasn't yet resolved itself. [*Hi if you can help with that]

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@TVcody I will do. I took a break from the events for June to wrap everything up but now it’s time to do some more.

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Book number three's manuscript and illustration plates are all complete save for a few last minute adjustments. I'll be headed to the printers with it later this week. The grant funded Historic Stockton Coloring Book is almost ready for distribution!

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If I met you while I was in graduate school there is a good chance at some point I wanted to show you where I'm from. I'll be able to very very soon.

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Book number three's manuscript and illustration plates are all complete save for a few last minute adjustments. I'll be headed to the printers with it later this week. The grant funded Historic Stockton Coloring Book is almost ready for distribution!

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The adobe clay is very sticky here and further west into the Delta proper so having treads instead of more traditional wheels made commercial agriculture possible. As you might be able to tell from the driver’s clothes it is dangerously sunny and dusty in the fields.

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The most recent scene from the Historic Stockton Coloring Book: an early gas powered Holt Brothers Caterpillar tractor outside of Stockton, California, circa WW1. One can easily see the flat landscape of Central Valley black earth that I grew up in here.

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Live from my booth at the San Joaquin County Fair! Come watch me paint live this afternoon. I have already begun color blocking.

(My phone is older so it posted without its label)

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But first a day with third grade.

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I just found a small stack of some of the original Viking Coloring Book Kickstarter Backer Reward mini print sets while preparing for this weekend's coloring book booth for the SJ County Fair. 12 of the paintings associated with the original book in a nice accordion file.

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You might even catch me painting the third Historic Stockton series piece live. You'll certainly be able to see this one framed alongside all the others.

The rest will be in the portfolio books available for viewing. #archaeology #anthropology #outreach

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This photo was taken at the last event I had goods from the Viking Coloring Book Project, a book signing in Solvang in February 2020 I did on my way back from the ACMRS annual conference in Tempe.

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This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday my medieval illustrations will be alongside my more recent local works from the Historic Stockton Coloring Book Project at the San Joaquin County Fair. Come by for special deals this weekend only on all prints and cards!

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The reference image for this was provided by the Bank of Stockton Archive. This painting is the second in the Historic Stockton Coloring Book series, which received funding from Stockton Arts Commission for 2024.

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I've been busy every weekend this month with events so I haven't had the chance to post my most recent painting since it finished pressing flat.

This is Stockton Terminal and Eastern Engine Number 3, or as it was once known in Stockton, the Slow, Tired and Easy.