Baby's First Illumination! (Sort Of ...)

Did you hear that loud whooshing wind last night around, oh, 9 p.m. EST? That was me sighing with relief as I finally, finally finished an illumination project that I think I've been working on forever. Well, that's an exaggeration, but it has been about a year. School interfered so that the only time I had to work was at Friday night SCA meetings, and if Master Tristan was there, it meant I spent the whole time running my mouth and not working. (Yes, I am totally putting the blame for my own indolence on him!) But, with school over, I jumped right back into it, determined to actually finish the darned thing ... and I did!

This is not my first illumination project. It's actually my fourth. But it's the first sorta-scroll-type thing. Yes, I am being wishy-washy because I'm still not sure that that's what it's going to be. It's also why it looks unfinished ... because it really is. If it is to be a scroll, then it will need calligraphy and the person's heraldry and such will be added. If I'm going to use it for myself, then I will probably fill in the border at the top and the other side and write a poem or something on it. But I don't know what I'm doing with it yet, so I've done the replication of the original until I decide or get some advice on it.

So, yes, this is my unfinished sorta-scroll-type thing or maybe-for-a-poem-type thing.

( Pictures and More Below the Cut! )

(Cross-posted to Hundrede Artes.)