Work produced for the Society of Creative Anachronism, or as a result of my involvement in it.
Another panache Scroll
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This scroll was inspired by the Spinoza Hours, which include pages where the border is one picture surrounding another. I knew the recipient was very keen on Venice, so gave the pictures a Venetian setting.
Because of changes in my personal life, involving a much higher workload in my job, 2024 has not been an especially productive year in terms of SCA scrolls. In fact, I have only produced three award scrolls, though I have tried to ensure quality compensates for a lack of quantity. Pelican Scroll for Gele Pechplumen. Shortly before I was invited to do this scroll, the recipient had posted the image shown to the left, from a famous calligraphy exemplar book called "Mira Calligraphiae". The creature is believed to be a sloth, though it looks nothing like one! Knowing she liked the image, I decided to base my scroll for her on it. Clearly, the sloth would not do... the award was for the Order of the Pelican, so I attempted to paint the order's symbol, the pelican feeding its chicks from its own blood, in a similar style. The original would have been painted on dyed black parchment. I was unable to find or create a suitable equivalent, and so the painting...
This scroll was commissioned at the beginning of 2020. You can guess the rest. By the time I had completed it, it was apparent it wasn't going to be presented any time soon, so I finished it without adding the date, which I was finally able to add a month ago, and the scroll was presented yesterday. So far my record for the longest delay between my doing a scroll and it being presented, but I have another one still awaiting presentation which will beat that record!
Feasting at the SCA is an important part of the experience, and we try to do it in a reasonably authentic way, using cutlery, crockery and other table-ware appropriate to the period. Thus the "Feast Box" is an important part of anybody's kit, a means of conveying all the necessaries for participating in a feast. Such boxes need to be identifiable as there are many participants at a feast, so Mary encouraged me to paint my coat of arms on mine (such personal heraldry as an important part of SCA culture). I did, and went a bit overboard. As I entered the box in an "Arts and Sciences" competition, I included the following documentation. Painted Feast Box Richard of Salesberie 15 th Century “Cassoni”. This project was never intended to be a re-creation of an authentic-looking Period artefact, but rather to decorate a functional item that I use at SCA events in a manner that recalls elements of period design. The box its...
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