Initial sketch.
Here are a whole mess o’ process images along the route to completing this scroll, hidden neatly behind the jump.
Painting started!
More painting, initial goldwork
More paint, more gold.
Acanthus leaves started.
Close-up of the gold work around the drop cap - I was very pleased with how this came out... until I put the whitework in.
Closeup of the portrait.
Text laid in.
All done but the erasing