Publisher's Synopsis
This guide uses flowers, butterflies, snowflakes, medieval illuminations and many other sources of inspiration to create illuminated designs. It shows how to apply them to a host of decorative items, including writing paper, greeting cards, gift cards, paperweights, boxes, address books, diaries, bookplates, bookmarks, menus and calligraphic texts.;The book offers guidance on stylization, adapting designs, shadowing, stippling, reproduction, gilding and creating motifs and borders. There is also a section on designing monograms, ciphers and colophons. It should appeal to all lovers of delicate miniature painting and to calligraphers, and complements Patricia Carter's books, "Illuminated Calligraphy" and "Illuminate Alphabets".
