Scrolls in 2024
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...