Making Manuscripts: Making Miniatures
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2018
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How did medieval artists make their manuscripts shine? Patricia Lovett explores the work behind painting and embellishing manuscripts and reproduces a lavishly illuminated page.
Explore illuminated manuscripts from the national libraries of the UK and France: www.bl.uk/medieval-english-fr...
This makes it look easy, but I suspect the artist/restorer is exceedingly skilled.
Undoubtedly
"look easy" yes but actualy extremly hard for regular artists. They are national traditional master artists so its easy for them.
So many valuable notions in such a short time. Thanks for sharing them.
Okay! This is cool to see this actually being done! Thanks!
Thank you very much for sharing all this valuable information.
I love your work
Todo un minucioso e increíble proceso para lograr esa Belleza
wooow
DANG!
Was it a home-made gesso or a purchased one from a specific brand? I really struggle to find the gesso which I could use as a beginner. Thank you in advance!
It was probably a home-made gesso, which is a tedious and painstaking process. The results, however, are incomparable. Store-bought gesso is not the same, although in the hands of a skilled practitioner will still yield positive results. The difference is the brilliance of the burnished gold. A beginner should try commercial gesso first, and add a bit of polymer medium and a touch of red pigment.The pigment will allow you to see it better when it dries. Home-made gesso often dries with tiny holes in it and that requires fine sanding and then polishing before applying the leaf. You may also need to add some distilled water to the mixture to assure a smooth flow. Good luck!
Hi, you find good gesso? I seeking too...😏 And it's not clear to me if golden leaves adhere well to pure gesso? Because before I heard about the recipe for gesso + fish glue ..
What type of paper is that? I would like to know so I can try doing it.
Animal-skin parchment, aka vellum. You don't *have* to use vellum, but at the beginning of the video they mentioned "skin" so I'm pretty sure that's what it is here.
vellum is incomparable, and is terribly expensive. Most pieces of vellum have to be sanded with fine sandpaper and then a bit of pumice powder is applied; that acts as a de-greaser, Very fine vellum, from an aborted calf, generally does not need any treatment.
I wonder what she used for the black outline. Ink or dark gouache paint.
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Bad
Why?
Why?
All these painstaking efforts and desperately beautiful art done in service of a barbaric cosmic zombie cult from the deserts. What a shame!
Not all medieval manuscripts were about religion. They had illustrated law books, medical books, Arthurian tales, other stories, history books etc ..oh ya, astrological books
Imagine being as materialist as the person who made this comment...