Illuminating Letters and Fantastic Beasts
I recently started a decorative lettering and illumination class at the local art school. We have been decorating letters and wandering into the world of bestiary. Practicing Decorated Letters This letter started out as an M. We decorated the background of this beautiful Canal paper from St. Armand's Paper, in Montreal. I added a border and painted it and the letter with a gold calligraphy ink. When I turned the letter upside down, it looked much better as a W. The letter L was the second letter I decorated. I used water colours and acrylic paint for the colours and a pigment pen for the decorative drawings on the top, bottom and sides. We moved into hidden letters. Here is my hidden b. For this one I used an imitation gold leaf for the top background, acrylic bronze for the bottom and water colour for the parts in between. This was a more contempo...