Italian Renn Scroll

This was an Award of Arms scroll I did for Katarina of Tuscany two years ago. I'm reasonably happy with the calligraphy itself, though not the word spacing. I had made the illuminated border for a Twelfth Night Arts and Sciences competiton and added the text later on when I needed to produce the award document on rather short notice.

Materials: Arches hot press watercolour paper, instacoll, gold leaf, Winsor & Newton gouache, iron gall ink. Calligraphy was written using a Brause flat edge nib in a custom holder.

Hand: Humanist