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Category Archives: Queen’s Prize
QPT Results
It was a fun, if exhausting day. Up at 4:45 a.m. and home at 10:00 p.m. Yikes! I did not plan to be that late but that’s how it transpired. Many thanks to my wonderful, darling husband who sheparded the young ones all day. I got a lot of positive feedback on my piece. My [...]
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QPT: Framed
Last week, when I did my “storm shopping,” I did make it out to Hobby Lobby to get a frame and mat for my QPT entry. This is it sitting on the mantle. I need to open it back up and get rid of some shmutz on the mat edge, but other than that… TA [...]
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QPT: Done!
I put the finishing touches on the illumination last night. At the suggestion of a really fab scribe, I re-inked the outlines. Once I get a mat and frame for it, it will be ready to go! And now the fun part, documentation! :\ Hopefully that won’t take me until the 27th if I get [...]
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QPT: Progress Shots
I’ve been silently working on my QPT entry. But suddenly it seems to be nearly done! Huzzah! First shot shows most of the base colors on. The blue is ultramarine; the red scarlet lake, the green is permanent green medium and the tan is yellow ochre. The yellow ochre, for the horse, was used in [...]
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QPT: Guilded
Slowly but surely (and into the wee hours on several mornings) The guilding is largely done. There are still some more holes to be filled as you can see but I DID IT! Whew. I’ve used about 2 and-a-half “pages” from my gold leaf book. By the time I patch all the little holes, smooth [...]
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QPT: Guilding
My first attempt to guild with real gold leaf has been a total disaster. I can’t get it to stick to the gum arabic or to the instacol. ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! If things go much worse I will have to start all over again because I ignored my better judgment and started guilding on my inked drawing [...]
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QPT: Inked
Ta Daaa!! Major lines have been inked. Gum arabic is soaking. Who know, mebbe I’ll get to the guilding this week too. I’m not as happy with my execution of the ink outlines. The horses neck doesn’t arch nicely and I kinda wobbled on the knight’s arm. I think I’ll go in and do the [...]
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Re-Pounced & Penciled
Re-did the pouncing on my QPT entry today. This time I think I got a lot of it too small. LOL! Especially around the horses head. I wonder what a “period pouncing tool” was? I used the point on my compass because it offered the most comfortable grip. Tonight I “connected the dots” (see picture [...]
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Queen’s Prize Progress
Well, I’ve got a humble start on my QPT entry. Woot! A brief explanation of pouncing… a period technique used to copy images. A blank sheet of vellum would have been placed under the illumination. Then holes were carefully poked along the outlines of the image content. The vellum under the illumination became the template [...]
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It Begins
The new printer arrived today. Woot! Wasn’t expecting it until next week. But now that means, I have everything I need to start working on my entry for Queen’s Prize. Ilaria came over tonight to pick up some preprints I’d done. She gave me some gum arabic too! How sweet was that! So now I [...]
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