Source for words: The Humayunama (https://archive.org/stream/historyofhumayun00gulbrich/historyofhumayun00gulbrich_djvu.txt)
Hand: faux-Arabic
Showing posts with label AoA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AoA. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Scriptorium work - AoA calligraphy swap with Marieta
This is a tidbit of calligraphy work I did for one of Marieta's scrolls for a Bengali merchant. The time period and source worked out that it would need my faux-Arabic hand in action again. My work was just the calligraphy and the word smithing on this. Everything else was all Marieta.
Source for words: The Humayunama (https://archive.org/stream/historyofhumayun00gulbrich/historyofhumayun00gulbrich_djvu.txt)
Hand: faux-Arabic
Source for words: The Humayunama (https://archive.org/stream/historyofhumayun00gulbrich/historyofhumayun00gulbrich_djvu.txt)
Hand: faux-Arabic
Monday, September 18, 2017
Award of Arms - Dorian
This assignment was one of my self-assigned projects while everyone else was at Pennsic this year.
The story behind this assignment was that I was put into contact with a gentleman in New Jersey who was looking for a replacement scroll for his AoA that was lost during the Hurricane Sandy which affected much of the Jersey coast in October 2012. He's been in the SCA a while and wanted to get a new scroll made at the urging of his children who are now getting interested in the SCA and wondered why he didn't have a scroll. In comes Christiana and her ever vigilant facilitating of people who need old scrolls done to talk to the Backlog Deputy (me).
Coolest thing about this assignment? Check out the royals. Tsurunaga and Genevieve...1993
Recipient: Dorian de San Kalogero
Assignment: Award of Arms - backlog/replacement
Illumination: British Library - Harley 3957
f. 4v
Hand: Humanist bookhand
I ended up entering this piece into the A&S Defender's of Quintavia competition (theme was Quintavia colors which are white and green). Think baronial champs, but for the Shire. Also #3 scroll with gilding on my own.
The story behind this assignment was that I was put into contact with a gentleman in New Jersey who was looking for a replacement scroll for his AoA that was lost during the Hurricane Sandy which affected much of the Jersey coast in October 2012. He's been in the SCA a while and wanted to get a new scroll made at the urging of his children who are now getting interested in the SCA and wondered why he didn't have a scroll. In comes Christiana and her ever vigilant facilitating of people who need old scrolls done to talk to the Backlog Deputy (me).
Coolest thing about this assignment? Check out the royals. Tsurunaga and Genevieve...1993
Recipient: Dorian de San Kalogero
Assignment: Award of Arms - backlog/replacement
Illumination: British Library - Harley 3957
f. 4vHand: Humanist bookhand
I ended up entering this piece into the A&S Defender's of Quintavia competition (theme was Quintavia colors which are white and green). Think baronial champs, but for the Shire. Also #3 scroll with gilding on my own.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Apollo's Arrow - Nergis
This is my first Apollo's Arrow (helping with Mikjall's for wording doesn't count) and I was happy to know that the recipient was a friend of Mikjall so I could pick his brain for ideas.
Recipient: Nergis bint Mustafa
Award: Apollo's Arrow with Award of Arms
Hand: faux-Arabic script
The biggest challanges for this scroll were two fold: 1) Finding a Turkish/Persian source for an archer that specifically did not contain a sagittary (which is the symbol for the grant level archer award) and 2) wording.
The source page was one of a few options from a Mongolian source scouted out by Marieta. I felt the illuminations were close enough to the feel of the Turkish pictures (and single Mamluk one) I'd scouted to give a correct sense of how to draw the figures. I found one that I felt would work (a group of archers squaring off against a dragon) and tailored it to a single figure and the dragon.
Now for the truly hard part - words. I messaged my closest poetry expert, Countess Marguerite (current King's Bard) for ideas for Islamic or Middle Eastern styles of poetry, because like an idiot, I thought this was something I could just whip up and have it done.
First off all, Marguerite is a treasure trove of poetry research. She found a few examples of Turkish and Persian poems and how they were constructed. She gave me all the tools for a great jumping off point and a taste of things that could be a rabbit hole of digging through medieval poetry. Thankfully, deadlines prevented any rabbit holes. :)
I chose to write a masnavi (also called mathnawi). This typed of poem was written by Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, and Urdu cultures and has a few poetic variants (usually differing in style and content). The mathnawi features rhyming couplets (aa/bb/cc pattern) with lines of 10-11 syllables. Typically these poems can be as long as they need to, but I wanted to keep it short to make sure I had time to work on the illumination. I ended up choosing to do an Arabic mathnawi (also called muzdawidj) which differs in that instead of couplets it uses a triplet rhyming pattern (aaa/bbb/ccc). The original page I was looking at didn't make it clear if it also followed the 11 and sometimes 10 syllable line pattern, but after checking in the Marguerite, we agreed it likely would (later, supporting pages I found also agreed with this). With a bit of peer editing for word choice, I had a poem. The arms don't follow the poetic pattern and I was fine not messing with it.
Recipient: Nergis bint Mustafa
Award: Apollo's Arrow with Award of Arms
Hand: faux-Arabic script
Words: Arabic mathnawi poem by me
Specs: gouache on pergamentata, Schmincke gold watercolor
Source: (in process of redoing the link)
of a fierce archer by the noble name
of Nergis bint Mustafa. They proclaim:
An Apollo's Arrow they would bestow
unto her. For she did nurture and grow
interest in archery; showing skill with her bow.
Ionnes, Sultan, Honig Sultana fair
to their beloved East far and wide declare
Nergis would also be given arms to bear:
Per chevron purpure and vert on a chevron above a
Specs: gouache on pergamentata, Schmincke gold watercolor
Source: (in process of redoing the link)
Words:
"To our great and wise rulers, words of praise cameof a fierce archer by the noble name
of Nergis bint Mustafa. They proclaim:
An Apollo's Arrow they would bestow
unto her. For she did nurture and grow
interest in archery; showing skill with her bow.
Ionnes, Sultan, Honig Sultana fair
to their beloved East far and wide declare
Nergis would also be given arms to bear:
raven migrant to chief argent three bunches of grapes leaved proper."
Something about the faux-Arabic hand makes it super fun. I will say I sit there and work through permutations of the letters until I get a good picture of what the word itself should look like. All in all, I'm proud of how this one turned out considering the art style is not in my comfort zone.
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| Side by side comparison of the original and my scroll. This is pre-clean ups on my scroll as there were a few spots that needed scraping (like where my elbow went into the green paint) and I hadn't erased the lines yet. |
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| Sketch of art and finished calligraphy. I had to re-tool the first line due to leaving out a word and had to cover for it. It still managed to follow the poetic rules and it worked. |
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| Close up of finished art and calligraphy before I added the page border. |
Something about the faux-Arabic hand makes it super fun. I will say I sit there and work through permutations of the letters until I get a good picture of what the word itself should look like. All in all, I'm proud of how this one turned out considering the art style is not in my comfort zone.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Award of Arms - Eudes
Going up to Tir Mara is always fun. This time I got to bring scrolls with me to be given out at Crown Tournament. The one tough part in making scrolls for recipients up in Tir Mara is the panic after I had finished of "Oh crap....was this supposed to be in French?!??!". I rechecked the assignment and no preference in language was listed. Well...too late. It's in English. Hopefully the French Heralds can translate if need be (and they did).
Recipient: Eudes de Creully
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: (forthcoming)
Recipient: Eudes de Creully
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: (forthcoming)
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Scroll Wording - Eydis' AoA
Yes, the wording was for "that Eydis" who also happens to be a friend of mine and fellow Dancing Lady. She was given her AoA by Brennan and Caoilfhionn on April 9th at the coronation of their heirs.
Marieta did a lovely craving based on the Osberg ship that featured intertwined cats. For a lovely viking lady who happens to be a bard, I took a stab at skaldic style poetry. I didn't have a lot of time to research how to phrase or set up sections of the poetry or to see if there were actually set "rules" for writing skaldic poems. That will be part of my "to do" list when I take another stab at this.
This is my first attempt at this type of poetry. Copious amounts of looking at text from rune stones happened and Googling Norse gods/patrons. Bygul and Trigul are the names of Freya's cats that pulled her chariot.
"Fierce Caoilfhionn and wise Brennan called their people to hear their word. On this day of Eostre’s pride, winter wanes and the skald’s words are known to all:
Thorgrim’s daughter, fair Eydis
Friend of Bygul and Trigul kin.
Bragi-favored skald, gifts wordfame to the north.
Ring givers Brennan and Caoilfhionn
Honor and arms to her proclaim."
Marieta did a lovely craving based on the Osberg ship that featured intertwined cats. For a lovely viking lady who happens to be a bard, I took a stab at skaldic style poetry. I didn't have a lot of time to research how to phrase or set up sections of the poetry or to see if there were actually set "rules" for writing skaldic poems. That will be part of my "to do" list when I take another stab at this.
This is my first attempt at this type of poetry. Copious amounts of looking at text from rune stones happened and Googling Norse gods/patrons. Bygul and Trigul are the names of Freya's cats that pulled her chariot.
"Fierce Caoilfhionn and wise Brennan called their people to hear their word. On this day of Eostre’s pride, winter wanes and the skald’s words are known to all:
Thorgrim’s daughter, fair Eydis
Friend of Bygul and Trigul kin.
Bragi-favored skald, gifts wordfame to the north.
Ring givers Brennan and Caoilfhionn
Honor and arms to her proclaim."
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Award of Arms - Aine
Like a complete doof, I forgot to take a picture of this scroll.
This assignment was an AoA with very little info to help construct words and find an inspirational manuscript. I did some digging on OSCAR and found that her name and badge are going through commentary. Her byname "Fháeláin"was a dead give away that perhaps....maybe... this person likes wolves (gee, how would I know that one?) and there were wolves on her proposed device.
A lot of medieval pictures of wolves I've found involve wolves harassing sheep and attacking people. Could I just fine one that says "Hey, I'm wolf! Look how cool I am!"? Nope. I did find this gem though and decided to use it a source material. I used the first panel of the story for the illumination.
Recipient: Aine ingen Fháeláin
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: gothic (second attempt at a gothic hand)
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
When I first started looking at this I wanted to figure out what the heck was going on in this picture.
1) Why is this wolf blue and looks like a fox? (Now I understand why foxes and wolves conflict in heraldry).
2) Why is there a wolf in an acorn cap receiving a host? (host being the Eucharist wafer)
3) Why is the other wolf wearing a St. Bernard whiskey cask? Is it a traveling tabernacle? Where the heck did it come from? Does the priest know the wolf possibly stole a tabernacle and is wearing it around his neck?
The story going on here (from what I can tell from various sources) tells of a priest of Ulster traveling through the forest when he is approached by a male wolf at his camp. Some versions have this as a friendly and good werewolf instead of a normal wolf. Wikipedia (in all it's peer created wiki glory) says that this was a man who was curse to live as a werewolf for seven years and as a man for another seven (with his wife curse the same way). Either way, our heroic wolf seeks the aid of the priest to cure (or administer last rites to) his mate. He leads the priest through the woods back to their den where the she-wolf is resting. The priest then gives her a host and she's either cured of her sickness (as she's a normal wolf) or I guess she dies (as she's a dying, but good, werewolf).
There are a few variations of this story as I mentioned above, but I prefer the version of the noble wolf who was just looking for help for his mate and in turn helped the priest get through the scary forest with weird trees unscathed. Wolves are awesome like that (in my own biased opinion). ;)
The idea of a wolf helping someone is what led me to choose this illumination as a source material. The text I wrote is short but sweet.
(text to be added later)
This assignment was an AoA with very little info to help construct words and find an inspirational manuscript. I did some digging on OSCAR and found that her name and badge are going through commentary. Her byname "Fháeláin"was a dead give away that perhaps....maybe... this person likes wolves (gee, how would I know that one?) and there were wolves on her proposed device.
A lot of medieval pictures of wolves I've found involve wolves harassing sheep and attacking people. Could I just fine one that says "Hey, I'm wolf! Look how cool I am!"? Nope. I did find this gem though and decided to use it a source material. I used the first panel of the story for the illumination.
Recipient: Aine ingen Fháeláin
Assignment: Award of Arms
Hand: gothic (second attempt at a gothic hand)
Specs: gouache on pergamenata
Source: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
When I first started looking at this I wanted to figure out what the heck was going on in this picture.
1) Why is this wolf blue and looks like a fox? (Now I understand why foxes and wolves conflict in heraldry).
2) Why is there a wolf in an acorn cap receiving a host? (host being the Eucharist wafer)
3) Why is the other wolf wearing a St. Bernard whiskey cask? Is it a traveling tabernacle? Where the heck did it come from? Does the priest know the wolf possibly stole a tabernacle and is wearing it around his neck?
The story going on here (from what I can tell from various sources) tells of a priest of Ulster traveling through the forest when he is approached by a male wolf at his camp. Some versions have this as a friendly and good werewolf instead of a normal wolf. Wikipedia (in all it's peer created wiki glory) says that this was a man who was curse to live as a werewolf for seven years and as a man for another seven (with his wife curse the same way). Either way, our heroic wolf seeks the aid of the priest to cure (or administer last rites to) his mate. He leads the priest through the woods back to their den where the she-wolf is resting. The priest then gives her a host and she's either cured of her sickness (as she's a normal wolf) or I guess she dies (as she's a dying, but good, werewolf).
There are a few variations of this story as I mentioned above, but I prefer the version of the noble wolf who was just looking for help for his mate and in turn helped the priest get through the scary forest with weird trees unscathed. Wolves are awesome like that (in my own biased opinion). ;)
The idea of a wolf helping someone is what led me to choose this illumination as a source material. The text I wrote is short but sweet.
(text to be added later)
Friday, March 18, 2016
Scroll Wording - Tullia's AoA
I found the documentation for this and felt the need to share it.
We managed to gt Tullia to 12th Night and all dressed up since Simon was being elevated to the Chivalry. What she didn't know was she was also getting her AoA that same day.
Mundanely, Tullia is a high school Latin teacher. Taking her love for all things Latin to the SCA, it's no surprise she has a Roman persona. I did some searching for ideas for wording for Roman personas from period texts and found this :http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/augustus_001.asp. The wording was handed off to the scribe who was assigned the scroll and she managed to have it translated into Latin. :)
I wrote the following text based off the source.
"Emperor Brennen Augustus and Empress Caoilfhionn Augusta, supreme pontiffs, holding the Tyger throne for a second time, proclaim:
We know of an Eastern citizen who has done venerable work in the fiber arts of spinning and weaving and has distinguished herself in the study of Our noble Roman forefathers.
Whereas in accordance with the decision of Our advisory council, do We wish to recognize Tullia Tranquilla as a loyal daughter and citizen of Rome and award her the following arms: Azure fretty Or, on a chief Or three drop spindles azure.
Done at the celebration of the 12th Night, in Anno Societatus 50, on the second feast day of Carmentalia in the Shire of Midland Vale."
Carmentalia is a Roman festival taking place on two days (11 January and 15 January) . Since 12th Night happened to be January 16th, I thought it was okay to include it to make the scroll persona specific (and I was only off by a day).
We managed to gt Tullia to 12th Night and all dressed up since Simon was being elevated to the Chivalry. What she didn't know was she was also getting her AoA that same day.
Mundanely, Tullia is a high school Latin teacher. Taking her love for all things Latin to the SCA, it's no surprise she has a Roman persona. I did some searching for ideas for wording for Roman personas from period texts and found this :http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/augustus_001.asp. The wording was handed off to the scribe who was assigned the scroll and she managed to have it translated into Latin. :)
I wrote the following text based off the source.
"Emperor Brennen Augustus and Empress Caoilfhionn Augusta, supreme pontiffs, holding the Tyger throne for a second time, proclaim:
We know of an Eastern citizen who has done venerable work in the fiber arts of spinning and weaving and has distinguished herself in the study of Our noble Roman forefathers.
Whereas in accordance with the decision of Our advisory council, do We wish to recognize Tullia Tranquilla as a loyal daughter and citizen of Rome and award her the following arms: Azure fretty Or, on a chief Or three drop spindles azure.
Done at the celebration of the 12th Night, in Anno Societatus 50, on the second feast day of Carmentalia in the Shire of Midland Vale."
Carmentalia is a Roman festival taking place on two days (11 January and 15 January) . Since 12th Night happened to be January 16th, I thought it was okay to include it to make the scroll persona specific (and I was only off by a day).
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Award of Arms - Erik
This was an AoA due for 12th night Jan 2016. A few of us were furiously working on garb for Simon's knighting and something for Tullia to wear to court (she was getting her AoA in addition to being front and center in the knighting procession).
Marieta found a nice late period source that was similar enough to the Italian manuscripts I was looking at for me to choose this. Funny enough, we believe our two AoA recipients were dating so it was only fitting they were being worked on at the same time.
My goal was keep it simple, clean, and don't try anything new because I had a bunch of stuff going on. I'm particularly proud of the white work and details.
Recipient: Erik Gutermuth
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: Humanist bookhand
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0010/bsb00103265/images/index.html?seite=14&fip=193.174.98.30
Marieta found a nice late period source that was similar enough to the Italian manuscripts I was looking at for me to choose this. Funny enough, we believe our two AoA recipients were dating so it was only fitting they were being worked on at the same time.
My goal was keep it simple, clean, and don't try anything new because I had a bunch of stuff going on. I'm particularly proud of the white work and details.
Recipient: Erik Gutermuth
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: Humanist bookhand
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0010/bsb00103265/images/index.html?seite=14&fip=193.174.98.30
Monday, February 29, 2016
Award of Arms - Ciar
Recipient: Ciar of Skye
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: Lindisfarne Gospels, 10th C
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: Lindisfarne Gospels, 10th C
Award of Arms - Coilean
And then there was this time that I loudly proclaimed in front of all of Darostur that I will never work on a scroll at Pennsic ever again! Mark your calendars. That was August 2015. I'm waiting to eat my words this year...
I foolishly though I would have enough time before Pennsic to have this done well in advance to enjoy our annual pre-Pennsic birthday excursion without deadlines. Boy was I wrong! I know. Shock and surprise.
My birthday usually falls during the first week of Pennsic, so I take the few days off from work to extend my vacation time. My husband and I take our time getting to Pennsylvania and try to do something fun and relaxing. I completely slacked off and had an amazing birthday filled with wine tours, great food, and adventure in upstate New York. This also meant I was behind on my scroll because I didn't get much done before leaving for the trip to begin with.
I finished the calligraphy and base illumination in a day sitting at a KoA cabin starting at my phone for the source material (because I'm a cool kid and forgot to pack my printout of the page). I finished up the scroll one lovely evening in Darostur's camp with Thyra and Marieta (who were also finishing up their scrolls) and managed to drop them off the day before they were to go out. Success!!
Recipient: Coilean O'Rein
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Words: Alys Mackyntoich
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=23677
I foolishly though I would have enough time before Pennsic to have this done well in advance to enjoy our annual pre-Pennsic birthday excursion without deadlines. Boy was I wrong! I know. Shock and surprise.
My birthday usually falls during the first week of Pennsic, so I take the few days off from work to extend my vacation time. My husband and I take our time getting to Pennsylvania and try to do something fun and relaxing. I completely slacked off and had an amazing birthday filled with wine tours, great food, and adventure in upstate New York. This also meant I was behind on my scroll because I didn't get much done before leaving for the trip to begin with.
I finished the calligraphy and base illumination in a day sitting at a KoA cabin starting at my phone for the source material (because I'm a cool kid and forgot to pack my printout of the page). I finished up the scroll one lovely evening in Darostur's camp with Thyra and Marieta (who were also finishing up their scrolls) and managed to drop them off the day before they were to go out. Success!!
Recipient: Coilean O'Rein
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Words: Alys Mackyntoich
Specs: guache on bristol
Source: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=23677
Award of Arms - Lisabetta
This next AoA had a lot of new things going on that I was kind of excited about. New calligraphy hand, new style, and gold painted capital letters! That might not sound interesting or hard, but for me it was completely out of the box and a bit scary.
The biggest challenge for me wasn't the usual debate of "oh my good too many things I want to draw and paint!" but rather "how is this lady's name actually registered and spelled????". The award write up and contact person had two different ways of spelling her name. I did some digging on OSCAR and found a third way of spelling it! Well crud. Some more digging through the award write up mentioned that she was autocratting the event in which she was getting her AoA and thank god it had her SCA name written out! And it matched the OSCAR entry!!! :D
This is also the first scroll I worked on since going to KWHSS in Toronto. The class Marieta and I attended Sunday morning mainly talked about shading techniques so it was fresh in my mind when I went to work on the pearls for the artwork.
Late period Italian manuscripts are lovely with their simplicity and elegance. Everything was free hand drawn and fiddled with during the final painting. The biggest change for me in terms of style was in using this source material, the text has an "airy" quality achieved by skipping extra lines. As you can see below, I did the gold work on the name last and missed which line to write on. Oh well. I think it still looks nice.
Recipient: Lisabetta vedova di Alessandro
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: Humanist bookhand
Words: Eva Woderose
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6432&CollID=58&NStart=29
The biggest challenge for me wasn't the usual debate of "oh my good too many things I want to draw and paint!" but rather "how is this lady's name actually registered and spelled????". The award write up and contact person had two different ways of spelling her name. I did some digging on OSCAR and found a third way of spelling it! Well crud. Some more digging through the award write up mentioned that she was autocratting the event in which she was getting her AoA and thank god it had her SCA name written out! And it matched the OSCAR entry!!! :D
This is also the first scroll I worked on since going to KWHSS in Toronto. The class Marieta and I attended Sunday morning mainly talked about shading techniques so it was fresh in my mind when I went to work on the pearls for the artwork.
Late period Italian manuscripts are lovely with their simplicity and elegance. Everything was free hand drawn and fiddled with during the final painting. The biggest change for me in terms of style was in using this source material, the text has an "airy" quality achieved by skipping extra lines. As you can see below, I did the gold work on the name last and missed which line to write on. Oh well. I think it still looks nice.
Recipient: Lisabetta vedova di Alessandro
Award: Award of Arms
Hand: Humanist bookhand
Words: Eva Woderose
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6432&CollID=58&NStart=29
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Award of Arms - Amis
This is an AoA for Amis Mwyn given out at the Baronial Investiture in Dragonship Haven. This is my first attempt at using guache as "ink" to do the red lettering for the recipient's name. I ended up fiddling with the consistency for a while.
Scroll Assignment: Award of Arms
Recipient: Amis Mwyn
Words: by Alys Mackyntoich
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), 1310-1324, Add MS 49622
Scroll Assignment: Award of Arms
Recipient: Amis Mwyn
Words: by Alys Mackyntoich
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), 1310-1324, Add MS 49622
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Award of Arms - Rozalin
This scroll was my first collaboration with Eva Woderose.
Scroll assignment:Award of Arms
Recipient: Rozalin of Ruantallan
Calligraphy: By Eva Woderose
Words: By Alys Mackyntoich
Specs: Guache on pergamenata
Source: German fencing manual - http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/7522/59/
This is also my first time painting on perg and going through the process of removing my hand oils from the material. I did the illumination first then handed off the finished (with my half) product to Eva for the calligraphy portion.
The big tweek on this was I tried to make one of the fencers slightly more feminine since the recipient is female and to make it more personal.
I don't have a picture of Eva's lovely calligraphy for this one, but she posted it somewhere. I'll update this post if I can track it down.
Big take away from this - mixing paint to the right consistency was still kind of an issue. The perg was very forgiving and kinda fun. :) This was also attempt #1 on math-ing out all the sizing from the original. I need more practice with it.
Edit: Found the completed scroll pic! I LOVE the "E".
Scroll assignment:Award of Arms
Recipient: Rozalin of Ruantallan
Calligraphy: By Eva Woderose
Words: By Alys Mackyntoich
Specs: Guache on pergamenata
Source: German fencing manual - http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/7522/59/
This is also my first time painting on perg and going through the process of removing my hand oils from the material. I did the illumination first then handed off the finished (with my half) product to Eva for the calligraphy portion.
The big tweek on this was I tried to make one of the fencers slightly more feminine since the recipient is female and to make it more personal.
I don't have a picture of Eva's lovely calligraphy for this one, but she posted it somewhere. I'll update this post if I can track it down.
Big take away from this - mixing paint to the right consistency was still kind of an issue. The perg was very forgiving and kinda fun. :) This was also attempt #1 on math-ing out all the sizing from the original. I need more practice with it.
Edit: Found the completed scroll pic! I LOVE the "E".
Friday, February 12, 2016
New scribe
So fun story on how I got to be a scribe for the SCA. Depending on how you look at it it I was either gleefully encouraged or expertly hoodwinked into signing up with the Signet at Market Day at Birka in 2013 during the glorious reign of Edward II and Thyra I.
The first advise given to me:
- You can paint, you're halfway there!
- Let's go shopping for supplies, it's easy.
- Buy this book.
- This is Ygraine, She is awesome.
- Do a backlog first.
It turns out Ygraine is indeed awesome and I bought the Marc Drogon calligraphy book from her. Constance later took me shopping for paint and helped me contact the Backlog deputy.
The first scroll I did was an AoA for Avista Mustafa ibn ‘Abdul-‘Aziz. He is a gentleman with a Turkish/Mamluk persona. It was advised that I use Gothic Littera Bastarda for a hand because "it's easy, looks medieval, and is good with any style". Knowing what I know now, I have to politely disagree with all points other than the "looks medieval one." I love the illumination of the horse, but the capital pained me.
Scroll assignment: Award of Arms (backlog)
Recipient: Avista Mustafa ibn ‘Abdul-‘Aziz
Hand: Gothic Littera Bastarda
Specs: Guache on Bristol
Source: (forthcoming)
Note on this scroll - My cat Daenerys jumped on it with wet paws just as I was taking a picture of the finished project. I freaked out out and the calm and wonderful Thyra helped me fix it. You can follow along with the progress pictures below.
The first advise given to me:
- You can paint, you're halfway there!
- Let's go shopping for supplies, it's easy.
- Buy this book.
- This is Ygraine, She is awesome.
- Do a backlog first.
It turns out Ygraine is indeed awesome and I bought the Marc Drogon calligraphy book from her. Constance later took me shopping for paint and helped me contact the Backlog deputy.
The first scroll I did was an AoA for Avista Mustafa ibn ‘Abdul-‘Aziz. He is a gentleman with a Turkish/Mamluk persona. It was advised that I use Gothic Littera Bastarda for a hand because "it's easy, looks medieval, and is good with any style". Knowing what I know now, I have to politely disagree with all points other than the "looks medieval one." I love the illumination of the horse, but the capital pained me.
Scroll assignment: Award of Arms (backlog)
Recipient: Avista Mustafa ibn ‘Abdul-‘Aziz
Hand: Gothic Littera Bastarda
Specs: Guache on Bristol
Source: (forthcoming)
Note on this scroll - My cat Daenerys jumped on it with wet paws just as I was taking a picture of the finished project. I freaked out out and the calm and wonderful Thyra helped me fix it. You can follow along with the progress pictures below.
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