More Art to Look at

Order of Defense Scroll for Master Orlando Sforza, July, 2016.

Month of July - Shark - for East Kingdom Calendar, Finished in September of 2015, Calendar published 2016

Augmentation of Arms for Katherine Stanhope, July, 2015

Master of Defense scroll for Jean Xavier Bouillier, June, 2015

Master of Defense scroll for Donovan Shinnock, May, 2015

Pelican Scroll for Malcolm Bowman, given in February, of 2015. Period pigments plus Windsor Newton goauche on black paper.

AoA for Markus de Yaeger, given at Coronation, April, 2015. Combination of Windsor Newton paints and period pigments, Higgins eternal ink.

Maunche for Dosalena Sofia della Mirandola

To Our most excellent lady Dosalena Sofia della Mirandola, Edward, illustrious King of the East, and Thyra, the Queen, send greetings to our most devoted servant.

It is written in the book of Wisdom: "As the sun rising in the heights of the world, so the beauty of a good art from a noble woman is a great ornament in the house of the East." But the sun rising dispels the horror of darkness from the world, brings in the happy softness of light, drives away nocturnal fears and turbulence, bestows security and tranquility, and to encompass many things in a brief word, a touch of the pen, the warmth of the paint upon parchment, whatever grows naturally in this visible world, thrives and flourishes, naturally, from the vital warming of the rays of the rising sun in the world.

It is fitting, therefore that the beauty and elegance of your works given most freely, with kindness, goodness, and virtue in the adornment of our Kingdom, should have similar effects to the rising sun. By opposing the horror of errors and supplying truth with your quill, brush and paint, so the kingdom may enjoy the desired tranquility of peace for all the living, providing most prudently for them to grow and thrive and flourish to completion.

Our beloved clerk, the bearer of the presents, could better reveal to you, if it please you, orally of our true love and admiration. Now is the place and time for your beautiful works, the quality of your teaching and your commitment to great art, and thus to disclose its brilliance to all and sundry.

Therefore, we shall and do by these present letters decree, enact and ordain that you be and hereby are inducted and accepted into the Order of the Maunche on this seventeenth day of January, anno societatus forty-nine, at our Twelfth Night in Our Barony of Carillion. Done this day with our hand and seal.

Calligraphy, illumination, words by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova

Research:

Wording Based on a letter from Robert Grosseteste to Eleanor of Provence, approximately 1244.

Illumination based on the Prayer Roll for Queen Margaret of Anjou 1445.

Silver Crescent, June, 2013

July, 2013, Silver Crescent Scroll.

Golden Rapier for Lucien de Wyntere

Edward, and Thyra by the good Grace of the East, defenders of the realm, to all people to whome these presents shall come, greeting:

Knowe yee that of our especial grace, certaine science, and meere motion, we haue given, and by these presents for us, our heires and successors, for great skill and willingness to defend our selues from harm, we giue to our trustie and welbeloued seruant as our will and pleasure is, and wee do hereby declare that Lucien de Wyntere, be inducted into the Order of the Golden Rapier. In witness whereof, we haue caused these our letters to be made and Witnesse our selues, at Birka, the 24th. day of January, in the nine and fortieth yeere of our Society.

Wording based on the Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh: 1584

Wording, Calligraphy and illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova

Illumination based on the Sforza Black Hours, by Master of Anthony of Burgundy, 15th Century, illumination on parchment.

Period pigments and mosaic gold used in the making of this scroll, do not lick or eat.