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Award Type:                  Award of Arms (Backlog)
Recipient's Name:         Sterling de la Rosa
Where Given:                Mudthaw, Settmour Swamp
Date:                              March 9, AS 36 (2002)

Scroll By:                       Kayleigh McWhyte / Cellach Mac Faoitigh

Calligraphy:                   Carolingian Miniscule (Uncials)
Resources:                    Bricks: The Book of Durrow. Blue dragons: Dover book.
                                       Gold knotwork along sides: Belt, seen online from Pennsic pictures.
Scroll Size:                      11" x 14"

Materials Used:             W&N gouache, ShinHan watercolor, Cottman watercolor mixed with W&N gouache,
                                       23kt gold transfer leaf on permacol, compound (faux) leaf squares, Schminke tubed gold
                                       watercolor, Cottman watercolor, Speedball acrylic inks, Higgins Black Magic ink.

Tools Used:                   2H pencil, Compass, ruler, t-square, Sakura micron pen, Speedball pen and nib.

Additional Comments:    Each penciled block of the knotwork "bricks" around the edge took 1 inning of the 2001 World Series to create. ;)  Due to forgetting my packet of gold leaf at a friend's house 3 nights before this was due, the remaining squares were completed with compound leaf (fake leaf) given to me by Ld Geoffrei St. Albans of Eastwood (who did a wonderful C.Sag for Elizabeth Hawkwood for the same event). Permacol border still shows just around text area - Sterling insisted on leaving that as-is when I offered to finish it for him.
Also note the optical illusion of "No Tre" as "Notre".... this was not initially intentional.