Moo!

And, another bovine related scroll is complete.

This was a fun little scroll to do.The face on the cow is priceless. The original image is from Bible latine complète, avec les prologues de saint Jérôme p316. I have no clue what the original image was supposed to represent but it just makes me giggle. 

The name is Blank. Scroll Blank.

Some blank scroll blanks.

My good friend Zosia, this past weekend, suggested that it might be a nice idea for me to scan in some basic borders, before I paint them, so that novice scribes can have examples to work on. This is a nice idea: I do do a lot of scrolls; many of them are simple borders. And I do scan and document what I work on (I said dodo). Normally, when I print out an image so that I can trace it on a lightbox, I stash the paper in a folder once I've completed the scroll. It was a simple matter of going through the folder and pulling out a few examples, tracing and inking them, and then scanning the results. I will do this with any and all scrolls I make that I think would be excellent examples for novices.

I've created a new folder on my flikr page for these new blanks. Any scribe who is looking for something inspiration can download the images, print them out, and paint them however they wish. 

I will, of course, share these images with the AEthelmearc scribal web site as well as any other Kingdom's scribal page. 

Moo!

A fun little scroll.

I inked this scroll blank at College of Three Ravens, yesterday. This is an inhabited initial from the Bible latine complète, avec les prologues de saint Jérôme p316. I saw the image and wanted to do it. It's not a complicated design and I don't have an assignment: I just saw the face and had to paint it.

Isn't is adorable? It seems to be saying, "Moo! Why did you hire me to play music? I gots me no fingers!"

Things you shouldn't put on an SCA Scroll part 5

Things you shouldn't put on an SCA Scroll part 5

Nothing say, "Thanks for all you do for the SCA" quite like a decapitation. Can you imagine this image on a writ for a Pelican? What gets me is how modern the image appears. This is from Hymnal, Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Walters Manuscript W.547, fol. 124v completed in 1678. It looks like something from a modern comic book and look at the face of the lady receiving the severed head: look how happy she is. "Look," she appears to be thinking, "I'm getting ahead of myself."

Snowball fights are nothing new

Here is an image from Walters Manuscript W.425 of a snowball fight painted around 1500 by Simon Bening. So, if you are caught pitching a snowball at someone, at an event, you can claim that you were just doing an A&S project and cite this image as your documentation. Note the post-mounted windmill in the background.