Comission: Finished

The County Scroll received the signatures last night.  I'm planning on one more go over to check for anything that needs to be fixed and then it'll be wrapped up and prepared for shipping.  It's been a fun project and images of it will be posted in April.  Gotta keep the surprise a secrete.

Other than that, I've started a small piece of an illuminated scene.  It's on pergamenata, a material that's made to simulate the look and feel of traditional parchment/vellum.  It mimics parchment/vellum very well, down to the buckling if it gets to wet and it's made of plant material.  I'm also using my ground pigments on it.  I'll get pictures of that up soon.

Isaac

County Scroll & Research

The County Scroll is pretty much finished.  All that's left is to give it a good look over after not working on it for several days and get signatures for it.  I think it turned out really well and pictures of it will be posted later as I'm not sure how much of a surprise it's supposed to be.

Besides books on period clothing/weaving/spinning/ect that I've been reading to help my Wife research garb or medieval clothing, I've also started reading The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Book, From the Twelfth to Early Sixteenth Century by Albert Derolez.  So far it's a really good read.  I have had to look up a few terms that I wasn't familiar with.  I'm about half way through with the book so far and looking forward to reading the rest of it.

Isaac

County Scroll

Last week I managed to get the county scroll laid out, calliged, and inked.  I used sumi ink, a nice dark black carbon ink, for the calligraphy. I did use a black archival ink for the scenes instead of the reddish brown that can been seen in the manuscript.  The black should give the finished project a nice clean feel.   I'll start the painting this week.  I'm still shooting to get the project done by the end of February, so it'll have plenty of shipping time.

Isaac