Award: Joint King and Queen’s Cypher for Gweniver Kenwyn of Roseveth
Date: St. Radegund’s Faire 2021
Paper: 1.5″ x 1.8″ goat parchment
Illumination: Gouache, shell gold
Calligraphy: Shell gold
Frame: purchased from MiniArt Supply
Inspiration: Various Elizabeth portrait miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, including Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. This video I found on Youtube by Penny Crichton-Seager was also very instructive: Painting Miniatures – learning from Nicholas Hilliard. Part One. (I don’t think there’s a part two, unfortunately).
Cecily of York Medieval Illumination 