It’s handy to have a stock of scroll templates available when doing a scroll with a short deadline. This is a variation of the glove I’d done last year and knew I could turn around quickly. It’s hard to tell without professional lighting, but I used silver for the swan in the glove and for the tulip and the descending stroke area of the Q.

Materials: Tablet, 8″x10″ pergamenata, ruler, Ames lettering guide, pencil, eraser, 01 micron pen, Finetec gold and silver paints, Winsor & Newton gouache, Princeton heritage 2/0 round paint brush, Speedball Super Black ink, dip pen