At the beginning of July Ibrahim, the EK A&S general, posted around that he was looking for scribes to some simple small scrolls for the A&S competition at Pennsic. I decided sure, I can help with that. So a few of us who volunteered were given the wording and told in previous years the scrolls were half the size of a 8x11 page.
So I mapped out how much room I had to put the words and figured out I could nestle the A&S badge at the top, only needed to nestle it into the first two lines. I had even bought a simple goache paint set and a could small brushes at Michaels so I didn't have to rely on anybody else to do that. I can trace a badge and do a simple coloring book style paint job, nobody's going to critique that.
Simple (for me) textura quadrata, and my first attempt at "illumination". I just dabbed a little paint from the tube onto the brush and slapped it on the scroll. Discussing it later with Fiona she said it's best to mix a bit of paint with some water, put it onto the scroll and kind of nudge it to the edge of where I wanted it. OK, so next time I have a badge to do I'll try that.
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