I have a friend that I have been able to see grow up into a very wonderful adult human being. They were getting an award, the Apollo's Arrow and I was asked to do the scroll. I went digging for an appropriate archery type of exemplar and found this lovely piece Here that spoke to me of an archer so reknown that they could take down a dragon. I took the exemplar and made a design based on it that would feature prominently the person as Apollo, taking down a dragon.
Final piece
First step, drafting the piece, and placing the words. For me, words always go first in that if I mess up, I don't have hours of painting to throw away.
Next step was to color match the paint to the original example.
Then the painting began. I forgot to take some pictures along the way, because once I start painting, well, I forget to eat lunch. :-)
Then final details. Pumping up the gold, outlining as appropriate and cleaning up the edges.
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