The History of the Kingdom of The West
Scrolls

Illustration board marked with layout and everything masked off to protect the areas outside the working space.

Photo and Contribution
by Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

Blind Scribe Working

"Another shot of me working on the calligraphy. To get a nice, even appearance, each line had to be painted twice; some letters had to be painted three times. It took about thirty minutes per line. Afterwards the paint had to be burnished and that took another 10 or 15 minutes per line. I have to say, don't ever volunteer to do this unless you like the recipient an AWFUL lot. In the foreground are some of the stack of reference books used during the process -- this stack has a couple of books on Russian lacquer painting, KK Stamerov's Illustrated History of Costume Volume 1, The Color Mixing Bible, and Cennino Cennini's Il libro dell'Arte." -- Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova

The West Kingdom History Website was created by and is maintained by Hirsch von Henford (mka Ken Mayer).