You know, for as simple a thing as it is, whitework really makes illumination pop. Or maybe it is just me. But the past two pieces now I’ve been happily surprised at the amount of depth some simple whitework can add. I added the midtones and whitework today. I still need to do some minor [...]

OK, maybe not merrily, but I’m feeling punchy. I’m tired and my host is really sloggy tonight, so I don’t know how this is going to look, or even if it will work, but here is my scroll progress in brief Here, I’ve shaded, in red, the areas I want to guild. Here is it [...]

Finished inking today! Have I mentioned lately how much I love working with real vellum?!? I modified the pencil draft a bit since my last post. I added a hammer in the upper right corner and a feather shap (it will be red) as a line filler. I’ve been toying with the idea of trying [...]

Oh. My. Gosh. Calliging on real vellum is like eating the smoothest chocolate. Oh soooo addictive. I’ll never go back to bristol! I hope calliging on the perga is as enjoyable. I can’t afford to do everything on real vellum. Here’s the scroll so far, the name has been blurred to protect the innocent. The [...]

I have my first ever assignment! Woohoo! Ok, I’m being silly but still I am excited. A large and lovely piece of vellum has been entrusted to my care for this project too. I am thinking of doing something like this from the Burnet Psalter. Oh, and I have the text too! If all goes [...]

I’ve been working on the re-do of Eilidh’s AoA scroll. Got the design penciled in enough to know I’d be happy with it but not so much that if I botch the callig-ing I’d be bummed to loose all that pencil time. So just about every day/night I’ve been spending a little time practicing my [...]

… is not my best hand. ‘Course I really don’t have a best hand, yet. Maybe I’m being too picky but I want it to look just like the writing out of the Book of Kells. Is that asking too much? I’ll try to post a pic later today. I’ve been practicing a little each [...]

Coolness! Scribblers Guideline Generator: Input your ascender, body, descender and space between in millimeters and it gives you a practice page! Woot. OK. Gave it a try. Bit disappointing. At 2-3-2-7 mm respectively, my printout is a bit wonky. Every 3rd set has a big space the 2-3-2 part. Views just fine, so I could [...]