For Holiday Faire I got to participate in a little bit of shenanigans with my Baroness and Baron for one friend, and I got to combine two different cultures to make something special for another. First up. Shenanigans. A Silver Horn (repeatable service award) for Their Excellencies' Court Herald. She has multiple personas from various places and times, but as far as I had known she hadn't received a Japanese scroll for her Japanese persona. So, I contacted Master Foro for a translation, and searched for an image. I couldn't find anything for the longest time and time was in short supply. The only image that called to me was out of period, from the Edo period, but it seemed perfect. So I used it anyway. The Original. The materials I used were perg for the substrate, and gouache, with finetec silver for the horn. The perg is 8x10" with a 1 1/2" border all around. In progress and closeups. Second, combining two different cultures. I'm not very familiar with the Persian and Middle Eastern cultures of the time, but in the short amount of time I've researched, I do not recollect seeing any manuscripts on a dark substrate like I have found in the Western European cultures. A friend was receiving the highest award our Barony gives for all his service and hard work. He has been doing a lot of research into the Persian, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern cultures of our time periods. To reflect that, I created a "black hours" style Persian scroll for him based on a manuscript from the 1400's. I actually did draw a segment, mirror it, then repeat it to make the border. It is all hand drawn. The Farsi was a translation from Baroness Tala that I placed on the scroll. It is a piece of 11 x 14" perg, hand dyed by me, with at least a 2" border. I used a mixture of acrylgouache that was designed for working on dark substrate, regular gouache, and finetec for the metallics. The writing was done with Dr. PHMartin's Bleed-Proof White. Unfortunately in the process of working on it, I didn't get a lot of pictures in progress. Only two actually, but here they are.
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