Last week I was asked if I was interested in doing a County award "scroll" with a deadline of mid March. I agreed after talking a little bit more to the person that was playing intermediary. I was given the following to go by, the Recipient like lions, armor, fighting and viking stuff.
So, after stewing on those ingredients, I settled on a style and layout. The Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Claudius B.iv is what I'll be basing my drawings and lettering off of. Cotton Claudius B.iv has some really great fighting depictions as well as Kings ruling, a favorite for this award scroll from what I found by looking at a few online galleys of other artists work.
My layout is going to be two columns that each represents a page. I'm going to be leaving plenty of space between each column so when the art is framed it can have two picture windows and really give the illusion of being two pages. I'm going to be doing two illuminated scenes per "page". The first page will have the Recipient fighting in a tourney and then ruling in a court type fashion. The second page will feature a six figure melee and the Recipient receiving the title of Earl.
I currently have all four scenes drawn out on drawing paper, initial letters drawn to their full size, and the text typed out for easy reference when I go to practice the calligraphy. I hope to have everything drawn and calliged by the end of the month.
Isaac
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