a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

Hello! In this post, I shall share my illustration of a beautiful historical Croatian military uniform. What makes this uniform so unique is that it belongs to the only historical all female regiment of its kind.  This historical uniform dating back to mid 19th century was and is still worn by the Križevac city's maiden watch. As the name might imply, this city watch is an all female one. The maiden city guard uniform is recognized and protected as an European cultural treasure.  This is one historical uniform that I have been meaning to illustrate for ages! Today I finally found the time to do it- or perhaps it is better to say that I made the time? When you really want to do something, you make the time for it. Scroll down to see and read more. I was planning to paint just one of these historical maiden guard uniforms but I then I realized that it wouldn't make sense so I painted six of them (using a photograph as a reference).  After all, this city guard uniform is nev...