Pelican Scroll

It has been quite a while since I last wrote anything in my blog. The Barony of Smoking Rocks holds its largest event in June, Vinland Raids. This year it was especially difficult since it also hosted the King and Queen's Archery Championships. I spent quite a bit of time making targets and setting up the tournament. On top of that I got a tick bite from which I got both Lyme disease and Babesiosis. I have been spending the last couple weeks recovering from both of those and the side effects of the antibiotics I was on. Anyway, now all of that is over and I can get back to working on projects.

Back at the beginning of June I had a scroll due. I showed the very beginning of it back in May. It was the first peerage scroll I was assigned and I especially wanted to do a good job on it. This picture shows the scroll when it was about half done. At this point I hadn't even decided what was going to go into the final medallions. In the end there were 2 medallions which I did not really like. The ones which hold the archery equipment. The way the red paint convered the yellow did not work out the way I wanted it to. It ended up looking a little clumpy and crude. All together, though, I am happy with the way it turned out.

The scroll was based on The Grandes Heures of Jean Duke of Berry. Unfortunately it is very hard to see the fine details on this picture. This is scroll # 22 for the A&S challenge.