had a productive day

[aryanhwy]

I've been on a C&I kick the last couple of days. I spent Friday and Saturday working on an assignment from the queen for Pennsic, and today I completed four scrolls. Two are being given out next weekend, so no photos yet, but the other two are backlogs.

The first is one I drew and painted in March, did half of the calligraphy in April, and finished the calligraphy and did the whitework today. The reason for the big gap (and also for the fact that I didn't do any C&I between early April and the end of May) was a fiasco with the calligraphy in the first installment; I ended up with sepia and vermillion bleeding together. It's amazing how much less frustrating something like that becomes when you leave it sit for three months and come back to it. You can hardly see the bleed, especially now that I went over some of it again. So I'm pretty happy with it:



The other is one that got assigned to me this morning, and so I feel very smug about the fact that I started and finished it today, the initial was one that I did for wortschmiedin, so that was done in advance. I like panaches; the badge is easy to draw:

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I do like your architectural border! Both of the scrolls are beautiful!

I really need to get hold of more books on illumination to inspire me. After the backlog clearance project I have this fear that half of Drachenwald has one of my simple versals. :)

Any suggestions?

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I hope to scan in the image on which I based the architectural one, because it's one where I feel that my version turned out better than the original! (The original is rather...sloppy...let's say).

I agree that books with colored pictures are great for finding inspiration. And Oxbow Books is a great place to procure them. But don't dis your versals! I think they're lovely and which I could do penwork like that.