I love to do scrolls for people, but I especially love when I can do them for the people I know and love. Before the Wild Hunt in 2019 I was approached to do a Court Barony for Cecille Cassaire (AKA Cassaire). It took me a while to settle on an exemplar but I chose one of my favorites that I thought she might like, The Breviary of Isabella of Castille. I love what I call the "Bruges" style with gold accents and drop shadows. Original below I had recently done a Laurel scroll from a similar style and mixed a teal that was gorgeous. I had heard that Cassaire had liked the color combination so I changed the green from the original to that teal.
The original was 9" x 6.2" of parchment whereas mine was on an 11" x 14" piece of pergamenta with roughly a 2" border on all sides. Many of the pigments that were used at the time were either potentially poisonous or poisonous. Some, such as the yellow ocher, burnt sienna, and burnt umber were from dirt, iron ore, or hematite and fairly safe. The green may be either a malachite based paint with a lead yellow (poisonous) or lead white (poisonous) added, or possibly a verdigris based green with lead yellow (poisonous) added. The pinks may be from a lac made of madder root, and the bright vermillion red would be from cinnabar (poisonous). Blues can come from either of two stones, azurite or lapis lazuli, finely ground. The ink would have come from oak galls crushed and steeped with ferrous oxide and vinegar. My materials were more modern, gouache paints, finetec gold for the accents instead of shell gold, and modern ink. I did do gilding around two initials using a modern gesso and 24k gold. Below are the in progress pics and a close up or two.
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