Wedding card for my grandparents

My grandpa is getting married in September, and I wanted to give him something he didn't already have, so I thought a little marriage announcement card would be neat. As usual, the design is based on two pages from the Visconti Hours, one page of which was, properly enough, the marriage of the virgin.

Here is the card:

The scanning doesn't show the colors the best; the ivy vines are all done in the same ink as the actually calligraphy, and the first border is more reddish than orangish.

Here are the two exemplars:

folio BR90

folio LF126v

The card was done the last two weeks of August and finished Sept. 1.

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© 2007, Sara L. Uckelman.

Notecards for Alban Saint Albans

These are a set of note cards I made for Alban St. Alban, as part of the art that I owe him. They were done Aug. 18-19. All of the designs are based on the Visconti Hours, the only book of illumination that I have. I made five, each in a different design. They're presented below in the order that I did them (the first two on Saturday, the second three on Sunday), with the original on the left and my interpretation on the right. I'll note that the scans of the originals are not the greatest; all of the dull brownish/greyish parts really are gold.

Folio	Original	Interpretation
BR48
LF29v
BR22v
BR104v
LF41

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© 2007, Sara L. Uckelman.

Thank-you card

For my palaeography professor: here.

Progressions in illumination

You can read about my early attempts at illumination here.

My first illumination

I wrote it up in all its glory over on LJ.

Pyxis for Petranella Fitzallen of Weston

Calligraphy only.

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© 2012, Sara L. Uckelman.

Bridgets Flame for Robert the Stout

Calligraphy only; illumination by Sophia Pasten.

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© 2005, Sara L. Uckelman.