It's not every day you get asked to do a scroll for two people. Especially two people you adore and respect. I was given the great honor and privilege to do the Court Barony scroll for Baroness Edan Lowery and Baron Lochlainn hua Rigbarddain. I wanted something that would capture the two of them perfectly and I found a picture of the two of them from 12th night 2020, that was posted one year earlier to the day that I received the assignment. It was perfect. It showed the two of them, together, and you could just see how much they love one another in it. I turned it into a grayscale so that I could more easily see the lines I needed to follow. The next task was finding an exemplar that would frame that image and make it front and center. I found what I was looking for in the Da Costa Hours which were illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84-1561) about 1515 in Ghent, Belgium. There were some elements I wanted to take out and/or replace because they did not seem to fit my purpose. So the lady was replaced with a raven to signify Raven's Cove, and two of the flowers were replace with their heraldry topped with coronets to signify Court Baronies. The final piece was on a 16x20" piece of pergamenata, with a 12x16" area for the scroll. the original was 172 x 125 mm so I enlarged quite a bit. I used gouache, finetec gold, and Noodler's Bulletproof Eel black ink. Close ups and in progress pics below, please click to enlarge. Again, remember that gold is finicky to photo without the proper light set up so it tends to look dead flat when you shoot it straight on, so many of my photos are at angles to get the magic of the gold.
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