My dearest friend Mistress Honor, while we were talking about backlogs stuff one day, let it slip that her son and one of my dearest SCA siblings, did not ever get a proper AoA. It was a slip of paper with something scribbled on it to that effect but no real scroll. As a gift I decided to make him one.
Robin is an awesome human being and I do mean awesome. Kind, sweet, funny and generous. He was my vigil guard and he is and always will be part of my SCA family. I have gifts from him sitting on my desk as I write this, he, along with his family, are always near my heart even thought hey are now far away.
It's a fairly simple piece, the inspiration for the main miniature is in reality quite small ( I'll have to dig up the example) but it made a great focus design, and in the majuscule I have added Lucy and the crow since these two little critters were on pretty well every scroll I did during Robin's parents' reign.
Watercolour and gouache on watercolour paper, with oak gall ink. It's a simple, elegant straightforward piece and I'm more than happy with how it turned out. I think I would have done something more with the second smaller capital letter but then again maybe not. Sometimes it's better to not over work a piece but rather leave it be simple.
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