I was approached to make another scroll for a woman I greatly admire and adore, Mistress Tatiana Ivanovna. She was being awarded the Gold Dolphin for her years of service with ranging from her largesse (many, many scroll cases so our scrolls aren't damaged in transport), autocratting, MoAS, and helping with youth events. I wanted it to be special, so I might have gone a little off the deep end, but for her it was worth it. Her persona is Russian, so I picked the Gospels of Tsar Alexander (c. 1355 0 1356) for my exemplar. I made the decision that I was going to have the scroll text translated first into Russian, and then into Cyrillic. That's when I realized that modern Cyrillic was a bit different in many places from the Cyrillic of the 1350's. I turned to a couple groups online asking for any help I could get as I was on a tight deadline, and two Laurels I also greatly admire rose to the task and helped me find a key that helped me find the correlating old Cyrillic for the modern translation I had. So began the painstaking task of going through and matching each symbol. It was then I learned that in this particular book, a couple of the letters that resemble the Western N (only backwards) was not in this book... at all. I looked through the entire book and found only things that looked like the N's and H's we're used to in Western culture (even though they are not N or H sounds in Russian.). So I did the best I could. I found several pictures of her online and picked the ones I liked to use in the medallions on the scroll. I made the decision to use the badge for the topmost circle, and the large one to put a picture of her in the clothes she wore for her elevation to the Order of the Laurel. I took a couple of the pics that had her with what I believe are two of her grandchildren and photo manipulated the pics to put both children in one image for another medallion. I had been practicing doing three dimensional people lately so going back to the flat, more two dimensional people was a bit hard, but I kept looking at examples from the book. I used a 11 x 14" piece of pergamenata with an image size of 8x10", with gouache, and sumi gold and Noodler's Bulletproof Eel black ink. Below are progress pics and close ups. Click to enlarge.
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