Things for Yule 2012

3 out of 4 Champion certificates for this weekend's event follows, the 4th was being finished up last night and I don't have pictures of it yet.  I designed and did the calligraphy on the certificates and fellow members of the scribal guild painted them.

The Youth certificates are again based off of Lateinischer Psalter aus England - BSB Clm 835, which can be found HERE

The adult certificates are based on the Grande Hours of Duke du Berry.

Edit: The second adult certificate.

Construction Zone

The hobby room has been packed up for over a month now waiting for the construction of cabinets, shelves, and worktables.  We did get everything for the cabinets and shelves installed the other weekend, they just need to be trimmed out and then painted.  The work tables have all their pieces cut and are ready for assembly as soon as we can put things away in the cabinets and shelves as everything is piled where the work tables will be going.  We're hoping that by the end of December, everything will be done and we'll have our hobby room back, better then ever, and our library open for use.

My Son, helping to install the cabinets.

Six in one Week

Last minute, well technically a three week deadline, champion certificates.  To accommodate painters I worked to get all six ready for painting in a weeks time.  I based all six off the same manuscript, Lateinischer Psalter aus England - BSB Clm 835, which can be found HERE and used the same general layout.  I did alternate the inside/outside boarders so it looks more like a series of pages from a book.  We also did a on-site calligraphy free text as it didn't look like any of the calligraphers would be attending the event.  So far they have seemed to be a hit with the painters and I hope to get some finished pictures of the pieces before they are handed out.

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.

13th Century Puzzle Initials

So far I've been using the British Library's digital Manuscript collection to do a bit of research into Puzzle initials.  So far, I've look at 55 images from 40 manuscripts of French or English origin, that have puzzle initials that are from the 13th Century and I've found a lot of similarities in the components used to draw the initials.  I've gotten a little class handout written up.  I hope to continue this research while branching to other centuries and also different library collections.