Rhonwen glyn Conwy's Laurel scroll, Awarded on 12 April 2003

Images of the backwards history of the scroll's creation given below.

After the scroll was read, the following attribution was given:

This scroll created by:
Master Anton of Winteroak
Mistress Chiarra of Ravenna
Lady Carolyn la Pointe
Mistress Sunneva
Master Harold von Auerbach
Mistress Ygraine of Kellswood
Master Christian Lansinger von Jaueregk
Mistress Amber Sturmwolf
Mistress Dorren of Ashwell
Lady Sarra the Lymner
Mistress Eloise of Coulter

We dangerous scribes like eleven artificial Gods have with our quills and brushes created all one world, all at one bench, sitting on one cushion, all warbling one song, in one key as if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds had been incorporate.

This is very close to a line from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in which Helena talks about creating lace flowers with Hermia. This line was spoken by Rhonwen the previous week in Carolingia's production of AMND, so she, unrehearsed, was able to say it along with the herald during her ceremony.

 
Date April 12th, 2003
Place Rhonwen glyn Conwy
Last Scribes to work Eloise of Coulter
Here's a shot of the entire scroll, complete.

April 12th, Queen Isabella has made it official. Queen Isabella awarded the Golden Lyre to each of the eleven that work on the scroll.

The scroll was a big success. Eloise offered to take it home herself if Rhonwen wasn't completely thrilled with it, but unfortunately for Eloise, Rhonwen was completely thrilled. Normally you'd expect a few people in the audience to be wowed by the shiney gold, and say Oooh and Aaah. When this scroll was displayed several people blasphemed, or made noises with their jaws dropping as though they'd said "Holy Sh..."

April 12th, Eloise details. Eloise painted roughly 40 micro-acres of scroll, and did white-work on most of it. She estimates that all told, this took about 70 hours. The result is spectacular.
April 12th, Eloise has finished the scroll. This picture captures her squinting into the sun, and weary from four hours of driving, and two weeks of painting details.
April 12th, details of Sarra's banner edge, Amber & Carolyne's Herald Angel, Sunniva's Virgo, Ygraine's sky and triads, Eloise's green-on-green diapering, Chiarra's Gilding, and Anton's italic hand.
March 29th, Sarra the Lymner painted the edge on the heavenly Herald's Banner. She did not know about this project ahead of time, but was impressed into service by Dorren and Eloise at Mudthaw. She filled in for Paigan Crawford.
March 29th, Earth Detail [current best image is blurry]
March 29th, Dorren of Ashwell's amazing talents and patience were under-utilized, though she painted the entire Earth
March 28th detail. This photograph does not do justice to the fine detail in the trim on the angel's garments. More detailed images are available. For example, see the image above of the heavenly herald Gabriel from April 12th.
March 28th, Amber Sturmwolf has done the clothing, musical instruments, and furniture in heaven. I cannot say enough good things about Amber, as the English language has only twenty-one thousand words that could be used in praise, which taken in groups of three give me only 9 trillion different phrases. Note the reflection of my car in which the scroll rode over 1200 miles during the process.
March 14th, 10PM Calligraphy detail. Note that the text was initially written by Christian, and edited to fit the space by Anton. The hand was an attempt at a Mercator Italic cursive, as appeared on many a map and celestial chart in this period. My italic isn't bad, but I should have put down some pencil lines before writing the text. [The text was my editing of words written by Christian Lansinger von Jaueregk].
March 14th 10PM, Anton of Winteroak has hastily added some calligraphy
March 14 afternoon detail. It was by my choice that we made the painful decision to paint over the head of the centaur. [Sorry Carolyne]. Originally Ygraine was slated to do much less, since she is out of circulation due to an injury. She heroically took up the brush and did much more than originally asked, to help make up for the lack of time which forced out help from a few other amazing artists [CfH, possibly DofA, and some others]. My original thought was to have one constellation per artist.
March 14 afternoon, Ygraine of Kellswood added four constellations, the blue background, and a lot of little white dots in triads.
March 9 detail, note that Ophiuchus, the serpent wrestler looks a bit like Anton, and that the serpent looks like a braided green belt. This is not a coincidence. It was an unexpected bit of luck that Sunniva had some astronomy background, and was able to follow my complex instructions for drawing and inventing the constellations, especially to the south, where period maps are *very* inconsistant.
March 9, Sunniva has added many constellations and the Milky Way. Harold von Auerbach added Scutum, the shield.
March 7, Harold von Auerbach, possibly the best loved scribe in the history of the East added Scutum the shield after some of Sunniva's work was done..
March 2 detail. After Carolyne got done, I started hearing from some of the other artists saying it would be very difficult to live up to her quality of work.
March 2 with Carolyne La Pointe holding it.
Detail on Feb 16. Chiarra set a very high standard for the following artists. Her gilding is just amazing.

Feb 16, held by Chiarra of Ravenna.

I'd like to point out is that Chiarra [rightly horrified that the gold might get damaged] built a very solid cardboard box, and backing for the scroll. Almost every scribe who has touched this project since has commented on how good and worthwhile this box is. Thanks Chiarra!
Pencil only by Anton of Winteroak. Note that the planetary positions are based on work by Anton and Christian, in trying to determine which year Rhonwen must have been born.

 

 
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