Illumination – Crane and Lotus

The Tale of Pikachu

May 6, 2023 devannkirkpatrick Comments 3 comments

Intro When Pikachu [Pikachu shall be used instead of his SCA name] was announced for knighthood who has a Japanese persona, I offered to do his scroll as I already had an idea from the very beginning – I wanted to take inspiration from Japanese epics – to tell a tale with accompanying paintings. The first thing I had to do for this was find a scroll to paint on. While it would be cool to make my own scroll,…

Making a Scroll based on a Korean Manuscript

January 6, 2023 devannkirkpatrick Comments 0 Comment

Over the last few months, I have been working on my illumination skills. For a long time, I have greatly enjoyed drawing and painting as it is very zen for me, so it was natural to jump to illumination as a new SCA hobby! Since I love Korean, my first big project involved creating a scroll based on the Illustrated manuscript of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing), Volume 2 ca. 1340 (where you can find here). For this project, I…