Recipient: Sandrine de Berry
Award: Seamstress to the Crown
Hand: caroligian miniscule
Specs: guache on pergamentata
Source: (will provide later, found by Thyra)
Monday, February 29, 2016
Seamstress to the Crown - Sandrine
I remember when I got this assignment (due Sept 26th, 2015) I was incredibly busy. I churned out this tiny scroll in a few hours while taking a break from sewing and trying to keep my head on straight. C&I along with words by me. It's a tiny 4x4 inch scroll.
Recipient: Sandrine de Berry
Award: Seamstress to the Crown
Hand: caroligian miniscule
Specs: guache on pergamentata
Source: (will provide later, found by Thyra)
Recipient: Sandrine de Berry
Award: Seamstress to the Crown
Hand: caroligian miniscule
Specs: guache on pergamentata
Source: (will provide later, found by Thyra)
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
Burdened Tyger - Julianna
Assignment: Burdened Tyger
Recipient: Julianna von Altenfeld.
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Words by: Magnus hvalmagi
Specs: Guache on bristol
Queen's Order of Courtesy - Philip
This last minute scroll assignment was one I could not say no to. We were finishing up with E&T's second reign, Thyra and I are preparing to go to Germany in a week, all the things are happening.....and yet I jumped at the chance to do this one. Philip was one of the awesome people I had met during our fantastical world tour of the East and beyond and I was surprised to learn how much behind the scenes things he did to help dancing happen at the royal progress events.
Given the short timeline (~3 days), I wanted something simple, yet elegant....and also I needed to work gold in there somehow. I did created the words with some editing help from Thyra.
Scroll Assignment: Queen's Order of Courtesy
Recipient: Philip White
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84546727/f191.image
Given the short timeline (~3 days), I wanted something simple, yet elegant....and also I needed to work gold in there somehow. I did created the words with some editing help from Thyra.
Scroll Assignment: Queen's Order of Courtesy
Recipient: Philip White
Hand: carolingian miniscule
Specs: Guache on bristol
Source: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84546727/f191.image
The picture I had taken is a little dark, but I still think it came out well.
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
Friday, February 19, 2016
E&T Backdrop - Part 3
Hooray again! We're done!
Well....not really. I was under the impression we were not going to do the sun chariot in the center of the zodiac and just leave it as a pretty sun with rays extending out. Nope.
Clarice and I buckled down and tag teamed the most complicated part of the backdrop.
And here it is, in all of it's glory with two people I am incredibly proud to call my friends front and center. It really did made a damn impressive piece.
Total hours clocked by me: ~40+
Total hours clocked by Clarice: ~30+
Thank you for everyone who came to help, keep up company, offer words of encouragement, and in general were awesome through the entire project. Kudos to Anton for an amazing idea, but next time I'd like more lead time. ;)
Well....not really. I was under the impression we were not going to do the sun chariot in the center of the zodiac and just leave it as a pretty sun with rays extending out. Nope.
Clarice and I buckled down and tag teamed the most complicated part of the backdrop.
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| Finished sun chariot. |
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| The finished product, both canvases. |
And here it is, in all of it's glory with two people I am incredibly proud to call my friends front and center. It really did made a damn impressive piece.
Total hours clocked by me: ~40+
Total hours clocked by Clarice: ~30+
Thank you for everyone who came to help, keep up company, offer words of encouragement, and in general were awesome through the entire project. Kudos to Anton for an amazing idea, but next time I'd like more lead time. ;)
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| Photo credit: David Holland |
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