Recently, I have found myself very interested in art. In particular, Manuscript Illumination. I can tell you though, it is practically impossible to find anything on the internet that will instruct you on how to *draw* the different designs found in these manuscripts. I basically had to search out images from manuscripts and re-create the shapes and motifs.
I'm currently in the middle of creating a bookplate for myself. It uses the acanthus leaf, which was pretty widely used in manuscript illumination. I'm also using some heraldic ideas, so I'm calling it Medieval.
I'm also wanting to illuminate a verse from the Bible. I don't really know which yet, but I really want to do it. Also, I'm feeling the pull of Christmas (which isn't hard to believe because it happens frequently) 6 months ahead of schedule, and I want to illuminate The Twelve Days of Christmas. I'm imagining a border done in pine branches instead of acanthus and having a representation of each day woven into the border. It looks pretty cool in my head.
On a completely un-related note, I'm also learning to play guitar. I find fingerstyle to be fun, even though I'm pretty terrible at it.
