So, this is a bit after the fact but just to document before I totally forget everything:
The good people of the Shire of Tir Briste hosted a scriptorium at their event. To encourage the scribal arts, scroll painting counted as points to the competing Romans and Barbarians. Partially painted pre-prints were worth 1 point, completed pre-prints were worth 2, and a completed original was worth 6 (I think they just made that up for me) 🙂
Since I was sans children, I had pretty much the entire day to sit under the pavillion and work on a Grant of Arms. I went with a 15th century Flemish type border – doodles were based on a Cathrine of Cleves folio. Gothic textura text was done with a steel nib (1.5 mm because the 1 mm turned out to be way too small for the text space) and the ink from the penner (omas). Illumination and gold were all done with Winsor Newton gouache. The final size was 8″x10″ illuminated area on an 11″x14″ sheet of bristol board.
Probably one of the coolest things about it is that I got to be there when it was given out and knew who the recipient was (Guillame de Pyrenes).