Anatomy Of An Illuminated Letter

[palansil]

In case it's not apparent, this is the letter "L."

 

 

Nice work! I noticed the image before reading the post and could tell right away it was an "L". But I think it's okay if illuminated letters get so embellished that you almost can't tell what the letter is.

 

Some of the red and gold looks 3-dimensional. What kind of paint are you using? I don't know about you, but the more I do the more I want to do. I wish I had more time right now to work on projects like this.

[jbb]

Nice work! I noticed the image before reading the post and could tell right away it was an "L". But I think it's okay if illuminated letters get so embellished that you almost can't tell what the letter is.

 

Some of the red and gold looks 3-dimensional. What kind of paint are you using? I don't know about you, but the more I do the more I want to do. I wish I had more time right now to work on projects like this.

I'm the same way! I'm spending as much as I can on the illuminations. I have a couple started. I just got back from the craft store where a bought some white gouache. I've been using watercolors, pigments mixed with gum Arabic and water, a Parker 45 fountain pen with some (???) dark ink that looks black on top of the watercolors and the gold leaf. I'm doing these on some nice old onionskin paper I have.

[jbb]

I need reasons to make illuminations so I inserted one in a letter I was writing this afternoon. I hope to do more since about about 8 letters in the hole right now.

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7578452472_78d496fb14_o.jpg

[tdzb36]

This is very nice

[melissa59]

Awesome work, jbb!