A Little Ink More or Less

This was done some 6-7 years ago. One of my first pieces on vellum, this was a bit of a learning experience. It was also the second time I w...

I executed this duchy for Duchess Elena several years ago (maybe five to six years ago) but this is the first time I have had access to an i...

My former foster apprentice, now one of our newest Laurels, Mistress Maeva scored a very impressive 25/25 at the Gulf Wars Art/Sci competiti...

This past weekend I worked with yet another of my students on the art of gilding. I think I have finally realized that I do not like to teac...

While demoing calligraphy and illumination this past weekend I reached a near completion state on two more pieces inspired by the Mira calli...

Hi everyone, I'm Melesse . After a number of years of cranking out illuminated pages, I am attempting to collect images of some of these...

This page was from yet another unremembered French book. Too bad I didn't write any of this down while working on these pieces. I guess ...

Odo needed a Duchy scroll and had spent the better part of his reign tormenting me. For months I had been telling him he was a bad monke...

Not your ordinary scroll. We needed a Duchy for a Viking , and as we know, Vikings liked to carve things on large rocks to commemorate ...

I believe this was my first attempt at a page from the Gopsels of Gladzor (Armenian, pre 1307). Although it is incredibly intricate, I ...

Mira calligraphiae monumenta. One of the last great examples of calligraphy and illumination. Georg Bocskay laid down all the text, hand...

I'm digging up old photos of pieces I did and attempting to collect them here. Here is Octavio's Laurel scroll. The original was a ...