A lot has happened.
And what that means is that I've not had time to write about amazing things happening.
We're going to start with easier things first.
I made a good amount of scrolls in these last few months.
And what that means is that I've not had time to write about amazing things happening.
We're going to start with easier things first.
I made a good amount of scrolls in these last few months.
The story of this 'A' from the Ramsey Psalter is that I had to do a 'D' earlier in the summer for Master Harold, and each 'D' I did met with a disastrous end, from being sneezed on (scattering paint everywhere), to dropping my brush (scattering paint everywhere) to using older painter's tape that left huge globs of glue on the edge (which I, in my foolishness, cut way, instead of using sandpaper. Never again will I make THAT mistake.) One of the 3 or 4 'D's I did for him, was from the Ramsey Psalter. He asked me later, for a matching letter 'A', which, thankfully, we have in the extant manuscript, because I was not looking forward to recreating those florals myself.
I am heartily enjoying making White Vine letters. My "time wasting" project is making a whole alphabet of these, on small pieces of paper. These will be/are 4"x5 1/2". I'm going to try and get an extant example for each letter and then design the final few myself.
Oh this guy.
(Source)
I did a lot of simplifying, really only taking it on for the fun bird-man. I turned said bird-man into two bird people and modeled them after our Baron and Baroness of Stonemarche.
But a funny story about this guy.
I ended up receiving it, when I was made Baronial Bardic champion. Which was a surprise to say the least (I mean, I competed but the other folks that sang and told stories that night... Wow. Just wow.)
I had joked with Master Harold that I didn't want to get my own scroll if I won, no matter how nice it may be (I will forever only see the smudge in the corner, the wiggly lines, etc.). That being said, it's nice to see it all filled with Master Harold's beautiful calligraphy and being able to slide that back into my portfolio for showing off.
Source is forthcoming on this initial, as I am totally unable to find it right now. I ended up giving this to Mistress Natalia at GNEW and I think she said she used it at Pennsic for someone. I love the challenge these monochromatic letters give me, because you have to make sure your shape is just right. You can't fudge it, because there's not much space to fudge with. You can't paint over it, because you need the paper to show through. It's so much fun!
I got a shipment of pergamenata in and I decided to do a practice piece on a smaller slip of that. I'm pretty sure this piece is 5"x8". It's the Wolf and the Sheep from Aesop's Fables. I decided to attempt calligraphy underneath to tell the moral of the story and for a somewhat first official attempt it's not... the absolutely worst.
I feel that the moral is relevant to today's world.
(Source. I tried to make the sheep look more upset on purpose.)
I did a handful of pieces that I plum forgot to take pictures of. Which is my bad. Some pictures (but not of all) have been promised to me. It's so cool sending them out like this, and I'll endeavor to get better at taking pictures of them.
Master Harold took the collection he had of mine to The Battle of 5 Armies (an event in Quintavia) with him and this picture was snagged by my housemate, Simona.
I didn't even realize it was my stuff at first! I truly thought it was someone else's. I didn't even remember doing the piece in the upper left hand corner because I'd done it so quickly for Master Harold.
I feel sometimes like I'll never catch up on blogging...
