Illuminated letters

Illustrated calligraphy capital letter

Illuminated letter

My first attempt to use gold leaf was purely out of curiosity. I’m always excited to work with new materials, and during the first year of school we had a project called “Illuminated Manuscripts”. “An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations. An illuminated manuscript is not considered illuminated unless one or many illuminations contained gold foil or…