When you have to repair your own scroll...

A while ago I was in a relationship with someone who fancied themselves a great artist. Without asking me, they took my AoA scroll and painted on what they thought were my arms. Yes. They painted arms that weren't mine on my Mistress Sarah the Limner Award of Arms scroll. And if that wasn't bad enough, they painted on the scroll with testors and citadel enamel model paints. If I ever see this person again I might actually hit them.

The repair of this has been an interesting two days. First, scraping off the paint resulted in the paint dust beginning to stain the bristol ground... which meant that I stopped immediately, and changed tactic - I did keep scraping, but this time I tilted it so the dust fell straight away. A staedtler eraser took care of what was stuck to the bristol. I couldn't get all the paint because it's soaked into the paper, so I did what I could to rough up the surface. 

Then I painted an even layer of titanium white over the whole area, crossing over onto the paper. It is much, much larger than I think the shield area was every supposed to be... but, I wanted my paint layer to have at least some hold on the bristol, so here we are. 

I let that sit for 24 hours. 

Then, I painted on my arms with the lightest touch I've ever used, in an attempt to not pull up the white layer into my colors. I'm happy to say that it's worked as best it could. 

I let that sit for a few hours till dry, and when back to the the line work. 

I'm happy with the results. It's getting framed as soon as I know it's totally dry and then, hopefully, I never need to worry about repair or correction on this piece again. Yes, I should write my arms in eventually but I think I'll wait till my calligraphy is better to do that. 

AoA, with incorrect arms

AoA, with correct arms