Release your inner medievalist and create your own Middle Ages-style illustration
Course date: Saturday 30 September
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
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Release your inner medievalist and create your own Middle Ages-style illustration on vellum (prepared calfskin) with Patricia Lovett MBE. You’ll learn how medieval scribes created their illuminations, and go home with your own example.
The most luxurious manuscripts were lit up by decorations and pictures in brightly-coloured pigments and burnished gold leaf. Under Patricia’s expert guidance you’ll choose your own miniature animal from a medieval bestiary, and learn the skills and techniques to bring it to life with colour and gold. You’ll develop your design on prepared vellum, apply gold leaf and add colour in the medieval painting style.
This course is led by world-renowned scribe and illuminator, Patricia Lovett MBE. Patricia is Vice-Chair of the Heritage Crafts Association and has exhibited calligraphic artworks widely in the UK and abroad. She produced the replica Book of Hours used in the BBC Wolf Hall series. Patricia's latest book The Art and History of Calligraphy was published by the British Library this year.
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
Read the full course outline
Release your inner medievalist and create your own Middle Ages-style illustration on vellum (prepared calfskin) with Patricia Lovett MBE. You’ll learn how medieval scribes created their illuminations, and go home with your own example.
The most luxurious manuscripts were lit up by decorations and pictures in brightly-coloured pigments and burnished gold leaf. Under Patricia’s expert guidance you’ll choose your own miniature animal from a medieval bestiary, and learn the skills and techniques to bring it to life with colour and gold. You’ll develop your design on prepared vellum, apply gold leaf and add colour in the medieval painting style.
This course is led by world-renowned scribe and illuminator, Patricia Lovett MBE. Patricia is Vice-Chair of the Heritage Crafts Association and has exhibited calligraphic artworks widely in the UK and abroad. She produced the replica Book of Hours used in the BBC Wolf Hall series. Patricia's latest book The Art and History of Calligraphy was published by the British Library this year.
Details
| Name: | Illumination Masterclass |
|---|---|
| Where: |
Harry M Weinrebe Learning Centre The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Show Map How to get to the Library |
| When: | - |
| Price: |
Full Price: £95.00 Member: £90.00 Senior 60+: £90.00 Student: £90.00 Registered Unemployed: £90.00 Friend of the BL: £90.00 |
| Enquiries: | +44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk |