A Brooch for a Lady of many talents

I was, happily, able to accept the assignment for Lady Katerina Falconer de Lanark. I say happily, because when you're able to not only create a scroll for someone you know, but also to have such excellent feedback and information from their friends and family... it makes your job very easy.

gouache and shell gold on perg with Pelican ink

This was taken from the very manuscript she referenced to create the dress shown in the left panel. The stance with bow is directly from the manuscript, and she has a photo of her recreating that scene... very, very excellent.  On the right is the garb she made to reference Captain Marvel, and including her buckler made me happy. On the left is her dog, looking on as she hunts.

And, something I don't always see, a photo of HRM presenting the scroll in Court:

The scroll itself - my spacing was not as exact as I wanted; I didn't practice the text enough to ensure that the balance was correct. Because of the nature of the text I wasn't able to easily incorporate the large capital that is the hallmark of this style. I don't think the scroll suffers for it, I am happy with the illuminated capitals I could include, but for exactness in historical accuracy I acknowledge the deviations. Additionally I did not use the end blocks correctly, and that is an area that I will be working on in the future.

I feel that on this scroll my white work was much improved. My color matching was not exact to the period, but instead I matched the colors of Captain Marvel, for the recipient. I am happy with how the difference works, and while I didn't follow the manuscript, I did use period colors.