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.

Owen's Quest Book - One really Big project

Once the sheets were cut, I pricked stacks of them then used a leadpoint to draw lines on the sheets for the calligraphy spacing.

Each gathering is made up of eight sheets.

Once I had several gatherings, I started using the layout calligraphy as a go by and started work on the final calligraphy.  I'm using a metal nib and a homemade oak gall ink.

As of this post, the first gathering has had it's calligraphy done and is ready to be turned over to the next scribe for the illumination design and painting.  The second gathering has been started. Using an average number of pages per subject on the layout calligraphy, the books looks like it might be about 160 pages or so.

Owen's Quest Book - One really Big project

I've been working on a project since the start of the year. 


Owen ap Aeddan has been set to a quest of interviewing various Members of the Chivilary around the Kingdom of Ansteorra.  Myself and another scribe are taking what is written after these interviews and creating a book of it.

So far I'm still working on the writing out the text on graph paper for a layout before moving onto the paper being used to make the book. There is currently a large stack and it's getting bigger.

As I'm using a cartridge pen for the layout as it's easy to travel with, I've started work on the actual pages at home.  The Pergamenata was chosen as it looks and acts very similar to parchment and is reasonable in price. The full sheets were cut down to a bit bigger then the planned finish size.

to be continued...

2013 - Wiesenfeuer Artisan

2013 Wiesenfeuer Artisan Scroll

Materials:
White Peramenata (Paper)
Carbon Ink
Schmincke Gold powder
Red Lead (the orange color)
Cobalt blue