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This award for Atlantia is for an act of service. The emblem used is rather bare bones and simple:
It’s fine, just not very personal. So….the recipient is a member of House Honey-badger. Their colors are red, black and yellow and the honey badger is their symbol. Her personal heraldry contains a hippo and a heart.
I had only done one white vine scroll prior to this one and I found an exemplar that would be perfect, replacing the marginalia birds with honey badgers, altering the colors to red/black/yellow (vs. traditional blue/green/red), and in the center, placing her fountain, complete with a bathing hippo (where else would one be?) and surrounded by putti, one holding a pitcher marked by a heart (from her heraldry) and filling it with water as part of the reason she received this award was for water-bearing at various SCA events.
I confess to being unsure of the color substitutions, but I do think it turned out quite striking! And the honey badgers are right at home within the vines.
Scroll is gouache on pergamenata, gesso and gold leaf.
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