Invitation

Been working on various projects.
An illusioniary Armenian hand to use for the calligraphy for the next round of champion scrolls, an invitation to an event using said hand, a Youth combat award scroll, tricking MS Word into doing the text I need for a folded book to use as a event handout/site token, practicing my calligraphy hands, and researching period techniques for manuscript illumination.

Invitation:

Been awhile

It's been a busy holiday season with lots of time spent with family. I didn't get as much calligraphy done that I wanted to, but I did get a lot of designs done.  I have several new designs waiting on calligraphy as well as the pieces I did last October/November for my local group.  I did finally get some pictures to post of the local group awards.

For the Flint & Steel award, I tried to use the ribbon symbol of the award in the design. And, for the Lanternarious award, I tried to work in the badge as well as lantern bearers. 

Flint & Steel: Hunterian Psalter

Flint & Steel: Hunterian Psalter

Flint & Steel:  Harley 2793

Flint & Steel: Book of Kells

Lanternarious: Book of Kells

Detail of the Book of Kells Lanternarious

Lanternarious: Egerton 745

Lanternarious: Egerton 3088

Lanternarious: Grand Hours of Duke de Berry

Designs

Lately I've been working on designs.

I have three designs based on the Hunterian Psalter, and currently one based on each of the following: Book of Kells, Grand Hours of Duke de Berry, Harley 2793, Egerton 745, Egerton 3088.

I'm also working on drawing another design based on the Book of Kells that will hopefully be finished soon.

After getting all of these designed, I'll have plenty of calligraphy to do to finish them all, but that can wait for a bit.

There are some other manuscripts that have caught my attention to try and work designs from.  We'll see if I get that far.

Isaac

October Newsletter Cover

Managed to knock out a cover for the local newsletter last night.  It was about a two hour project from start to finish. Not my best work, but not bad for the time crunch.

It's based off of the October calendar image in the manuscript known as Lansdowne 383, or the Shaftesbury Psalter from England, done in about the 2nd quarter of the 12th century.

Isaac

Library Page

Added a few more books to the "My Library" page.  These are just starter books from a list I was asked to make for a newsletter submission.  I'll be adding more books to it as time goes on.

Isaac