In the Reign of Queen Mary Grace and King Havordh
It was requested of me to create an original scroll for the recognition of Elonda Blue Haven as a pelican.
Based on a 14th century example, here are photos of the process. All calligraphy, gold work, painting and finishing done by me with the exception of the Pelican herself- drawn by Jose Cabrera de Castilla.
In Early 2017, I had reason to create a special thank you for some family for their gracious support and donations to my Lord's Knighting Ceremony. They are no SCA folk, but since their actions pertained to the SCA, I decided to make them something lovely, based on a period work I'd seen and loved.
This celtic knotwork illuminated letter 'b' from the late 10th century, comes from a latin vellum manuscript known as 'Evangelia Ottonis'. The notes at Rylands mention that it is possibly Italian in origin.
This was a requested Original scroll for Their Excellencies of Stromgard, Hlutwige Wolfkiller and Ivon Drengr for the recipient, Cara da Fortuna, in AS XLIX.
The layout and illumination is based on a 16th century, Italian, Book of Hours.
Because of the amount of text and page/layout constraints for the original, I sketched some pieces as they were, and moved around other elements to work with our space needs.
I've decided to go back into my archive of projects and bring some out for public display. The next several posts will be from work I've done in the last 7-8 years.
It was requested that an original (replacement) scroll be created for the Tessina Felice Gianfigliazzi in 2017. I used the following reference image:
This was done on pergamenata with guache color.
