I was extremely honored the Clerk Signet asked me to do the Court Barony scrolls for Their Excellencies when they stepped down. It was bittersweet to see them step down. I wanted these to be special, as I do for anyone I make a scroll for, but even more so this time. I came up with the concept of doing pen and ink because that is the style Baroness Esperanza does (extremely well!), skeletal versions of themselves because anyone who knows them knows they like darker art, and black parchment because I'm simply insane.
The exemplars came from various German woodcuts I found along with pictures of Their Excellencies in their German garb, and the calligraphy exemplar being The Prayerbook of Maximilian I by Albrecht Durer. The materials I used: 2 sheets of kosher parchment that I dyed black; Ph.Martin's Bleedproof white, finetec silver, and gouache formulated for dark paper applied with a quill I cut and a crow quill pen. Final size on each was 8x10 " with a 1" border for matting and framing. (In progress below)
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