Ten-Minute-A-Day Scribal Challenge and SCA Scribal Trading Cards

 Another phoenix, inspired by folio 24r, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, lat. 6838B [Bestiary Second Family]  Medieval Bestiary : Manuscripts : BNF lat. 6838B

Ten-Minute-A-Day Scribal Challenge and SCA Scribal Trading Cards

 Here is another one. This depressed duck is actually a phoenix.

(Grootseminarie Brugge, MS. 89/54 [Ter Duinen Aviary], folio 77v)

Ten-Minute-A-Day Scribal Challenge and SCA Scribal Trading Cards

Oh my! It has certainly been a very long time since I posted. 

I have been very busy over the last several months with multiple projects that just don't seem to have an end in sight. I've been plodding along with not much to show (so far) for my efforts.

One thing that I have recently become involved with is the SCA Scribes ten-minute-a-day 100 Days of Scribal Challenge. I found the SCA ten-minute-a-day A&S Challenge that I joined some years ago to be extremely helpful in getting into the habit of regular A&S activity, so when I saw that the Scribes were promoting a similar Challenge I was enthusiastic. I generally do my illumination in big blocks with not much in between, which is not ideal for maintaining and developing skills, so I hoped that being involved in this challenge would provide several benefits.

I have also wanted to get more involved with creating Known World Scribal Trading cards, so this seemed like a great time to pursue that. I have been doing a tiny amount every day, and I am finding that it has reignited my enthusiasm for illumination, especially my favourite areas of drolleries and bestiaries.

A Phoenix from De avibus of Hugh of Fouilloy, [De avibus/Physiologus] Bibliotheque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 101, folio 185r with my version below. Painted in W&N gouache.