Welcome to the Scriptorium
Illuminated Manuscript
This project is a dream-come-true. I love calligraphy. I practiced all the time in high school (instead of doing math.) I would invent alphabets; leave indecipherable messages from aliens in my desk for the next student to find. Correspondence would be in a Gothic hand.
This book, one of two, is sculpted wood. I gessoed it, to build texture, and glazed it all to age before laying out the images. It will get another tea colored glaze to kill the color and age it even more, but I like it at this stage. The pages are reproductions, but I have replaced the central images with text from other sources to better suit the purpose. The books will be used to join 3 pieces of an antique frieze of biblical images. These books need to look at least a century old.
Visitors to the workshop where I am working tell me they would go insane with such tedium. I love it. There is nothing like cloistering myself in the scriptorium with coffee and a #000 brush, and an Ipod full of Bach!
September 29, 2011 at 10:53 pm
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