Terick's Hammer

I was asked to produce an award certificate to honor a teen. A fire happened at his home and he perished in it. The young man was special to the various SCA groups in the Oklahoma area, so after some brainstorming, an extra special award certificate was requested. The follow pictures document the process of creating Terick's Scroll. The Scroll was given out at Wiesenfeuer Baronial 2014. The size is 10 in x 13 in and from start to finish, time spent working was spread over 4 days. Materials include parchment, 23kt gold leaf, ink and paints created with period recipes.

Practice calligraphy

Inked Illumination layout

Layout and drawing completed using a lead-tin stylus.

Calligraphy finished.  Used a carbon ink for the black text and real vermilion for the red text.

Minor Initials and boxes for line fillers added

23kt gold leaf being added

Gold leafing finished.

While modern tests have reviled that azurite was used instead of ultramarine on the Macclesfield Psalter, I used ultramarine pigment for my blue as I don't have any azurite currently.

Red Lead paint being added. 

Added the second red, instead of a plant based pigment that would fade with time being exposed, I used vermilion.

Last of the base colors added. A green and lead white on the figures clothes.

Details added to the figures and black lines started to be painted.

Detail image of one of the figures.

Black lines finished on both pages.

White work done with lead white. Finished picture - no flash.

Finished with flash on.