Current works finished and in progress

More events coming up means more projects to work on.

 I've just finished calligraphy on one Champion certificate with another one to do before this weekend. 

I've also finished another invitation and started work on two Champion certificates to be done in the Grande Hours of Duke de Berry style and four (2 stepping down and two stepping up) Youth Champion certificates.  I'm going to be doing the Youth certs. in the style of Lateinischer Psalter aus England - BSB Clm 835, which can be found HERE.

I've also finished a special group preprinted certificate design (to be shown later, it's a secret right now) and have the calligraphy to do on several others that were displayed last year.

Just finished Invitation:

We've also postponed the period pigment to paint and the miniature drawing classes until next year.  Everyone decided they needed more time for the upcoming events, and I needed more time to write.

Been awhile

It's been a busy holiday season with lots of time spent with family. I didn't get as much calligraphy done that I wanted to, but I did get a lot of designs done.  I have several new designs waiting on calligraphy as well as the pieces I did last October/November for my local group.  I did finally get some pictures to post of the local group awards.

For the Flint & Steel award, I tried to use the ribbon symbol of the award in the design. And, for the Lanternarious award, I tried to work in the badge as well as lantern bearers. 

Flint & Steel: Hunterian Psalter

Flint & Steel: Hunterian Psalter

Flint & Steel:  Harley 2793

Flint & Steel: Book of Kells

Lanternarious: Book of Kells

Detail of the Book of Kells Lanternarious

Lanternarious: Egerton 745

Lanternarious: Egerton 3088

Lanternarious: Grand Hours of Duke de Berry

Yet another Project

Another new project.  Yea, just what I needed, another project. hehe

I've been mainly working on this one during lunch breaks at work well at least the drawing of the pages.  I've decided to do a small book.  Yea, a book.  I've been doing some research into book binding, nothing to deep yet, but it's been turning the gears in the head.  So, I've decided to tackle something smaller, it's going to be about a 5 x 7 in page size.  It will be in the style of Taymoth Hours or the Yates Thompson 13, a book of hours from the 2nd quarter of the 14th century.  It can be found here. I've gotten 34 pages sketched out and I've started to lay out the calligraphy. 

I'm still working on charter designs.  I've got the cleaned up and inked.  I need to make a run to the copy shop and then do some more cut and paste.

I've also got the inkle loom out and been doing some weaving.  Making some bands to go on the T-tunics that Ginger's made.

Isaac

More Charter Designs

I've been working on several different projects little by little right now.  I have two more charter designs that I'm working on finishing up.  This time a Sable Talon and a Compass Rose.

Sable Talon in done in the style of the Grandes Heures of Jean, Deke of Berry.  The Grandes Heures was finished in 1409, and it thought to have been commissioned around 1407.  The book's 126 folios measure 400 x 300 mm.  I've used pieces from the "simple" pages to make the illuminated boarder.  Long necked dragons are very common on these "simple" pages as well as grotesques.  I've used an armored half-man/animal grotesque since the award deals with the field of combat.

The Compass Rose is done in the style of the Macclesfield Psalter. The Macclesfield Psalter was made in East Anglia in the second quarter of the 14th century.  I've used pieces of two different folios for the Compass Rose design.  I started with f. 87r for the general shape of the boarder and I replaced the upper flower in a circle with the Award's registered badge. The other page is f 104v for the larger capital T and some of the design work on boarder. 

The Compass Rose is still just in pencil.  Because of the extra illuminated letters, I had to work on the calligraphy spacing before I could nail down placement on the boarder and line fillers.  I'll be able to clean it up and ink it soon.

Isaac

Design Sketchers for a few more charters

ile I'm still working on my calligraphy for the Queen's Rapier, I had some time to sketch up a few more ideas for other charters.

I'm using the Yates Thompson 13 for a source.  It's a Book of Hours and is also known as 'The Taymoth Hours'.  It's from the 2nd quarter of the 14th Century and uses a Gothic hand for it's text.
My source of the manuscript can be found here.

Both of the following pictures are of the pencil sketch of the layout.

The first is for the Sable Falcon, a nonarmigerous award that's 8.5 x 11 in. Because of the award's status, it's smaller size usually dictates simpler illumination, so I trimmed off part of the right side and top border.

The Second is for the Arc D'Or, an award that carries a Grant of Arms and is 11 x 14 in.  I haven't erased my do not cross lines around the "pages" yet.

Isaac

Queen's Rapier Test Fit

First test fit of the calligraphy on the illumination.  Need a bit more practice with the letter forms, but over all it looks good.  Found a few spelling errors to fix and a line needs to be left after "day of" for the month.

Isaac

Queen's Rapier of Ansteorra

My source image for this project can be found here.

I've picked out which letter forms I like from the manuscript page.  A few of the letters have several different forms and I'll see about trying to work that into my calligraphy.

First image is the inked illumination page sitting next two my first full calligraphy layout.  I tried two different size nibs to see which I think would look better.  I like the 1.5 mm over the 1 mm for this project.  The 1.5 mm is the first nib I used.  I also need to work on some spacing to use the middle ribbon.  I have left two lines for names because they are shorter lines, about 2.75 inches long.

Next is a close up of the illumination.  The L cap is still in pencil, but I've inked the rest of it.  I'm gonna play with the placement of the L a bit.

A closer look at the calligraphy.

Isaac