- Your Name and Title: The Honorable C. Carataca, Armiger
- Title of your Project: Maunche Scroll for Master Llewellyn Walsh
- Location: Settmour Swamp
- East Kingdom Wiki Link: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Cassia_Carataca
- Website/Blog Link: https://tuxedolascribalblogger.tumblr.com
- Category: Scribal
This is a mixed-type scroll – half micrography, half trompe l’œil – made for an MoD who makes sharp things and also embroiders which is also sharp! There were pictures on the wiki, and I asked for another from Ryan Mac Whyte, and there were all these beautiful sharp objects… so my partner, noting my distress and lack of inspiration, said something to the effect of “Well he’s 16th century, so just do a squashed bug 16th century border of pointy things scroll!” It got a little more complex than that, and it was a really fun steamroller journey of inspiration to make it, so I thought I’d write a walkthrough of my thought process and the mechanics of actually making the scroll.
It was my first time doing trompe l’œil other than a class I took in the summer of 2024, and my first time doing it from disparate photographs instead of following along with an example. (I didn’t have any sense of scale for the blades, so they’re definitely whatever size fit the composition best, and the blades I picked were three of my six favorites.) The materials are pergamenata, assorted brands of gouache, Beam Paints fairytale gold mica-based watercolor, pencil, and Rapidograph drawing ink. Cover photo taken by Master Llewellyn Walsh.
The walkthrough is in a blog post, linked below.
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