Gems and Pearls

Inspired by folio 41 of the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau by the Master of Mary of Burgundy. Total size is 5 inches by 7 inches and the illumination was executed in four sessions with about 2-3 hours of work each.

Painting gems is a lot of effort in colors, but thankfully has a pretty high payoff. I did really enjoy working on the pearls.

I changed the blue cabochon at the bottom center to contain a badge for an award rather than the rather lovely naked lady from the original.

Wearable Miniatures

Hand-painted miniatures under glass and with a frame ready to hang from your necklace. I love flowers and am enamored of the Victorian language of flowers where each species signified a different emotion or concept.
Tonight I started with a Peach Blossom (meaning: I am your captive) and a Purple Columbine (meaning: Resolved to win). Each pa inting is 1.5 inches square with a message on the back that identifies the bloom and gives its Victorian meaning. Meanings of flowers have been obtained from the 1884 edition of Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway
I’d love feedback or suggestions

Cathedral Trimaris Silk Painting Insanity

After being asked to help dress up the pavilion in which we hold Kingdom courts in Trimaris, a plan was hatched to create six enormous silk paintings that looked like stained glass windows.  Each panel features a Trimarian icon and measures 54” wide x 9’ in length.
The current set of panels feature:

• St. Martin (as himself)
• St. Gryfyn (as herself)
• St. Patrick (Styled as Duke Bytor Fitzgerald)
• St. Timothy (Styled as Duke Mittion von Weald)
• St. Olaf (Styled as Duke Baldar Langstrider)
• St. Vitus (Styled as Baron Octavio de Flores)

The project was enormous and could not have been done without the combined efforts of about two dozen people from three different Baronies. These ladies and gentlemen worked beautifully together to make this project happen in less than two weeks of actual work time.
Photosynth by Ld Tristrum de Kerjean.

Design

• Baroness Lisabetta Maria da Firenze, OL
  • Wyvernwoode
• Mistress Finneadan ingen Ruadhan, OL
  • Marcaster

Planning and Organization

• Baroness Melangell merch Mariot, OP
  • Marcaster
• Baroness Maol Mide ingen Medra, OL, OP
  • Wyvernwoode

Execution of silk paintings

• Baroness Lisabetta Maria da Firenze, OL
  • Wyvernwoode
• Baroness Melangell merch Mariot, OP
  • Marcaster
• Baroness Maol Mide ingen Medra, OL, OP
  • Wyvernwoode
• Baroness Madeleine de Somerville
  • Wyvernwoode
• Baroness Jeanette de Lille
  • Darkwater
• HL Kale Adriene
  • Marcaster
• HL Arianna Rosa Cristina Veneziano
  • Wyvernwoode
• HL Bronach of Kildare
  • Wyvernwoode
• Lady Cristiana atte Mere
  • Marcaster
• Countess Grainne ingen Anloin meic Cerbaill
  • Wyvernwoode
• Lady Genevieve la Fey
  • Marcaster
• Lady Milesenda de Bourges
• Darkwater
• m’lord Brian of Wyvernwoode
  • Wyvernwoode
• m’lord Barbarossa of Wyvernwoode
  • Wyvernwoode
• m’lady Adelyn
  • Wyvernwoode
• Thorlief Ulfvarinson
  • Wyvernwoode

Assistance

• Baron Severin Visconti, KSCA
• Wyvernwoode
• Baron Damian von Blauwald
• Darkwater
• Duchess Maisie of Dunbarton OP, OR
• Wyvernwoode
• Duke Gregory Ahern, KSCA
• Wyvernwoode

Installation

• Earl Thomas the Incomplete, KSCA
• Marcaster
• Earl Lorcann an Dubhgaile, KSCA
• Wyvernwoode
• Baroness Maol Mide ingen Medra, OL, OP
• Wyvernwoode
• HL Bronach of Kildare
• Wyvernwoode
• m’lord Brian of Wyvernwoode
• Wyvernwoode
• m’lady Adelyn
• Wyvernwoode
• m’lord David Archer
• Marcaster

I am certain that I missed a few names of those who helped to put the banners up on Friday night. My apologies to anyone who participated and was not mentioned here. Just send me a message if you know someone I missed an I will be sure to correct the list. My thanks and eternal gratitude to all os those who assisted in this project.
We hope to continue this project with several other phases that will help to further improve the look and feel of Fletcher Pavilion.
More photos can be seen at Hon. Lady Bronach of Kildare’s Picasa photo album.