As you may have noticed, I have kind of fallen of the NaBloPoMo wagon. Usually it’s not too bad, but this year I have two blogs, an active two-year-old, and several more commitments than I have had in the past. So I’m giving myself permission to stop. I’ll still be posting multiple times weekly, but […]
Well, I’ve rather gotten to the point where I cans reveal anything else of the scroll until after it’s presented. Well, I could show you the bottom border, but it’s not finished yet. So instead, have a quick shot of my new fun supplies: 23K double gold leaf. Gilded scrolls, here I come!
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I’m finished with the calligraphy part of the scroll, and have moved on the the painting portion. Here is the top border almost finished. The rest will have to wait til tomorrow in better light.
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Initial letters for a super secret scroll commission due soon. I can’t show anything explicit, but I might show a glimpse now and then…
The give-away cup cover is coming along nicely. One arm of the spiral is finished; I don’t think it will take more than another week or so to finish. Then I get to give it to someone!
Since this piece has been received (and approved!) by the commissioner, I can talk about this now. My friend Mel wanted a small piece showing the Infallible Spell for Beauty from CS Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Only the top part of the text was written in the book. The other words are crappily
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I finished the teal and orange bliaut. Did I even talk about it here? God, I’m such a bad blogger. Okay, so my friend Cecilie is doing a vow renewal this coming spring, at our local Renaissance Festival, which is Robin Hood themed. So she wants everyone to be dressed in 12th century garb. Since
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Quick picture of me in some (very old) Elizabethan middle-class gear for a photo-op. I love it, but I want to remake it with better construction and drafting.
I got some new gilding substrate recently, miniatum, and I wanted to test it out. I made a basic ‘a’ letterform, gently raised, to gild. I waited for it to dry, then used some fairly inexpensive Thai gold I got on eBay to test it out. As you can see, it worked perfectly, resulting in
Remember how I said that we were on Facebook now? Well, it’s getting so close to the 50-like giveaway deadline that I started the cup cover I’ll be giving away. Here’s a sneak peek of the design. If you’re interested in winning a hand-made cup cover, head over to the page and ‘like’ it. In
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