THE PILGRIM

This oil painting is the first of many Crusader era drawings and paintings both to inspire and instruct.   The painting style is done in Moreschi's "constant attempt and endeavor" for that "Classic American  Illustrative" look and feel that inspires one's imagination.  Painting done in a style not to depict every hair of the horse, or every ring in the mail of the knight... but applying paint in such a manner to preserve the integral look of the subject while adding the feel of the weight, temperature, and environment through the use of tone, color, and brushwork. Ah...but to instruct and spark the imagination at the same time? This mounted Knight tells a story of the Crusader era often overlooked and ignored because of the current pop culture surrounding the theme that only "those mad monks of the Templar order" were hacking their way through the Levant for blood, treasure, and glory! This painting, purposefully titled THE PILGRIM, represents the European christian knight who uprooted