Ciaracan Na Traga Chivalry Scroll
Ciaracan Na Traga Chivalry scroll
Stylized Roman ivory triptych (for Britannia persona) with silver Uncial calligraphy - text in Latin using the Caid chivalry text as the basis, gilded Roman knight's chain done on black Rising Stonehenge paper. I had previously made an “ivory” Frank’s casket design using a monotone color that didn’t contrast very well on white paper and wanted to see if colored paper would punch up the design a bit. Using black was sort of interesting since most of my linework and calligraphy set up are usually done using black pencil or pen. The calligraphy and major layout lines were made by incising the paper using a bone folder and then switching the light source around so I could see the lines as I was working with them. Designs were transferred using a "white" graphite paper. I considered doing the calligraphy in gold, but between the shades of yellow ochre paint and the gilded knight’s chain I felt there was too much yellow happening in the design and so chose silver as a contrast hoping to avoid too much color variation (looking for simple). Discovered that black is far less forgiving than white as far as showing areas where the opacity of the paint was a little thin:-x - but at least I've worked out the tools and materials needed to work on black:-}
Triptych Panels
Faux ivory triptych of Bolverk (Ciaracan's SCA "grandmother"), Ciaracan, and Darius (Ciaracan's knight, "father").
Bolverk Panel
Ciaracan Panel
Darius Panel
Least happy with this one - I had a variety of photographs taken specifically for the scroll to work with for Bolverk and Ciaracan and just a couple reference photos that were on-line for Darius and he always seemed to be in motion (not good for a static pose:-k) I ended up using the figure from the panel I based the architectural framework on. Also went from relatively short figure, to medium size figure to tall figure (how they are in really life, but not good for "balancing" the design:-s)