An Opal for Sara. She more than deserved it for all of the work she's done not only with the archery community, but also on a grander scale for the Kingdom and Barony with her hospitality and her teaching. I wanted to do something special, and I love the Bruge style, so I found a page which used the colors of her heraldry, blue and gold, in the Hours of Boussu. For her Opal, I used a piece of 8x10" pergamenata with an image space of 5x7". The materials I used where instacoll with 23k loose leaf gold for the borders, gouache and finetec gold for the rest of the illumination. The ink used was Noodler's Bulletproof Eel black. Gold is very finicky to photograph. If you take pictures dead on, most of the gold accents will disappear and the image looks blah. For the magic of these scrolls you have to take the picture from a slight angle as I have done in many of the progress and closeups below, or have a special set up of lights. Please click to make them bigger.
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