Thursday, March 6, 2014

Owen's Quest Book - One really Big project

Once the sheets were cut, I pricked stacks of them then used a leadpoint to draw lines on the sheets for the calligraphy spacing.





Each gathering is made up of eight sheets.




Once I had several gatherings, I started using the layout calligraphy as a go by and started work on the final calligraphy.  I'm using a metal nib and a homemade oak gall ink.



As of this post, the first gathering has had it's calligraphy done and is ready to be turned over to the next scribe for the illumination design and painting.  The second gathering has been started. Using an average number of pages per subject on the layout calligraphy, the books looks like it might be about 160 pages or so.

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