Let's start with March of this year. Gerhardt is a good friend and deserved a lovely scroll for his Silver Crescent. He helpfully suggested what type of scroll he wanted, complete with website, so off I went. The exemplar is here:
Started off with calligraphy and illumination and ideas about paint choices.
Next step tackle the acanthus leaves.
Once the design was down for the acanthus leaves and for the silver crescent, I then started working on the background color. I chose red instead of yellow ochre as I felt it was more striking and mimicked one of the designs that the recipient liked. Here I added details that he came from Stonemarche (the castle), that he was seneschal (the key at the top) and that he was a webminister (webbing in the acanthus leaves) as well as the rapier that he always carries.
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