I was asked to do the highest award our Barony gives for my mentor, Baroness Aine ingen Chuimin. So I was a little sneaky. I didn't say who it was for and devised a way to get her to pick her own scroll. She picked out 3 she liked and this was the one I selected from the Master of James IV of Scotland. I used a mixture of period pigments, gouache, and finetec gold to get the effect that I think that the original has as I have only been able to look at the exemplar online. I created a ductus from the few pages I was able to find online.
In progress pics and close ups below. Click to enlarge. (Gold does not photograph well)
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His Grace, Cuan, and Her Excellency, Signy, gave out a lot of Fountains for the scribes during their reign. We decided to trade scrolls and I traded with Master Tristan Alexander. He gave me some things he would like in his, and I showed him some pages that met the criteria. The page that won was the Durazzo Hours! The exemplar was a purplish parchment with shell gold ink and period pigments. Done sometime in the late 1400's. I dyed the parchment a burgundy red myself and used modern gouache and finetec gold for the pigments and lettering. I am still learning how to do people, especially puti. I replaced the skull cup with a fountain (yes, I know I need to work on the perspective on that.. )
Progress pics below. Click on the pic to see it bigger. There was to be a competition between the Baronies for the scribes. We received our assignments from the backlog and I was lucky enough to be selected for Jorunn's Pearl, an Order of High Merit with a GoA for Arts and Sciences in the Kingdom of Atlantia. I discussed with her some basic ideas, and then came across a manuscript page that reminded me of a pair of gloves she made for one of the Countesses! The exemplar is from the Rothschild Prayerbook from roughly 1505-1510. The original was done on vellum with period pigments, which likely included cochineal, lead white, lapis lazuli, ocher, raw sienna, vine black or lamp black and possibly terra verte. The highlights on the brown are likely a shell gold, as I have not seen the original that is my supposition.
I used pergamenta for my substrate and modern gouache with finetec gold for my pigments. The hand was taken from the other pages of the book that I had access to online in order to make my ductus match the exemplar. Progress pics and up close shots below. (Remember even modern gold does not photograph well) I unfortunately did not get any progress pictures for this one. The Friday before the event, my Kingdom's Clerk Signet put out a call for an emergency last minute scroll for an Order of High Merit, namely the Order of the Golden Dolphin which is the service GoA for Atlantia. When I heard who it was for, I knew I had to do it. So the night before, I did research in between helping the Feastocrat with packing for the event the next day. Went home, did a brief layout so that I would only have to transcribe the transliteration onto the substrate and paint.
Saturday, very early and with very little sleep, I drove to her house, finished the loading and rode to the event. Between running errands, I worked hard to get this done before Court. The subject is Lord Naran in his deel from 12th Night and I was honored to do this for him. |
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February 2021
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