On paints, illuminations and ideas
Well, I won a bunch of Winsor & Newton gouache paints. Mostly the primary colors, many in duplicates, but for the winning bid of $16 +s/h, not too bad at all, considering the full retail price. I still have to purchase a couple more colors, like gold and flesh tone, but this will be nice for starters.
I also won a small booklet, Illuminated Letter Designs in the Historiated Style of the Middle Ages, which I think is supposed to be a coloring book. It has images taken from various illuminated manuscripts, or maybe just based on the styles, where they've taken each letter and made about a page or two of various images for that letter. I am thinking of using this as a sampler, something to practice illumination with, that I can hang up on the walls in a small frame. I think it would be nice to have one in each letter for each of my family members. It would be nice to have a project like that to help me practice illuminating, even if I only use gold paint or maybe the cheap gold leaf, and my new paints of course. It might even help me practice the style of the people, which thankfully is a lot less realistic than better artists than I do nowadays (like docryder).
And I have had a dream to actually make a small prayer book, complete with an embroidered cover in red velvet, or maybe blue velvet. Oooh, in gold embroidery. Now that would be nice; calligraphy, illumination, embroidery and book making all in one little project, to be carried while I wear a nice Tudor (or earlier period) gown. Now that is something to shoot for doing in a few years. Have to get my skills up to par for it.
And now off to bed, where hopefully I can sleep fairly quickly. I have yard work to do in the morning while it is only just hot, before it gets really really hot.
I also won a small booklet, Illuminated Letter Designs in the Historiated Style of the Middle Ages, which I think is supposed to be a coloring book. It has images taken from various illuminated manuscripts, or maybe just based on the styles, where they've taken each letter and made about a page or two of various images for that letter. I am thinking of using this as a sampler, something to practice illumination with, that I can hang up on the walls in a small frame. I think it would be nice to have one in each letter for each of my family members. It would be nice to have a project like that to help me practice illuminating, even if I only use gold paint or maybe the cheap gold leaf, and my new paints of course. It might even help me practice the style of the people, which thankfully is a lot less realistic than better artists than I do nowadays (like docryder).
And I have had a dream to actually make a small prayer book, complete with an embroidered cover in red velvet, or maybe blue velvet. Oooh, in gold embroidery. Now that would be nice; calligraphy, illumination, embroidery and book making all in one little project, to be carried while I wear a nice Tudor (or earlier period) gown. Now that is something to shoot for doing in a few years. Have to get my skills up to par for it.
And now off to bed, where hopefully I can sleep fairly quickly. I have yard work to do in the morning while it is only just hot, before it gets really really hot.