Our backlog deputy put the call out for a couple awards that needed done. I accepted and was chosen to do Master Herveus' backlog AoA. I looked through different manuscripts and nothing seemed to really resonate, until I pulled out my Macclesfield Psalter facsimile. The Macclesfield is thought to have been created around 1330 and is of especial historical significance in manuscripts. More info on the exemplar here thanks to the Fitzwilliam Museum: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/macclesfield/about/index.html Sample page, but not the one I used specifically. I sketched out the design I wanted, adding some of the details, on a regular sketch pad, then transferred it to a transfer paper so I had a nice clean image to put on the perg, and used a light box to transfer it to the perg. (I sometimes have a heavy hand with pencil, so this prevents me from leaving ruts to capture paint.) The original was done on vellum or parchment and may have used such pigments as vermillion, terra verte, lapis lazuli, madder lake, lead red, lead yellow, lamp black, ochres of various hues, and lead white. The gold would have been laid on a size of gesso sottile, or leaded gesso and the ink would have been iron oak gall ink. Mine was done on pergamenta, with modern prepared gouache by Winsor Newton and M. Graham, mixing to get the shades I wanted. The 23K gold leaf was laid on a modern non lead gesso made by Baroness Aine ingen Chuimin, and the ink was Noodler's Bulletproof Black. These were used over period materials for a few reasons, mostly for archival, toxicity, and cost. The final image was done on an 8x10 piece of perg with 1" border all around, so illumination and calligraphy are in a 6x8" area. In progress and detail shots below.
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