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Model:Canon PowerShot A1000 IS
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Date Taken:Jun 21, 2008, 6:17:52 PM
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Traditional Art / Typography / Calligraphy

This scroll is mainly based off the Hours of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (c. 1454-55). The Hours contain grisaille miniatures that fill about half of each page, underneath which the customary texts for a book of hours are written in bastarda, following a large puzzlework illuminated letter.

The miniature I chose to use for the scroll is based off of a full-page color miniature from the Hours of Mary of Burgundy (c. 1477), in which a lady is sitting at an open window looking into the interior of a gothic church. Instead of depicting the church, I used a landscape from the background of the Hours of the Cross in the Très Riches Heures of John, Duke of Berry (completed c. 1485- 90).

I used ground pigments bound with glair on vellum - my first time with all period materials! WOO.

Full doumentation is in the journal entries. ^_^

Completed in January 2011.

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~HessianPeel Sep 5, 2011

wow!

~LadyArwynn16 Jul 8, 2011

Lovin' the red n blue embellishments around the capital.

~Merwenna Jul 8, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

thanks! The pen I was using for them was totally obnoxious, though.

~canvasofnight Jan 14, 2011 Hobbyist

Mrrrrr <3
It is awesome! I want to hug it.

~LadySerafina Jan 10, 2011

Fantastic! How did you make your glair? Did you like it?

~Merwenna Jan 10, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Hmm, well I've only made it the one time so far, so let's see if I remember... I think we just beat the egg whites, let it sit, and then scooped off the fluffy stuff that accumulated. I used the remaining liquidy stuff to mix with ground pigments that my laurel had lying around.

I actually really liked the glair once I got used to it... it came off the brush like a dream

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