How to do Illuminating Scrolls Or personal BOD's

To Learn how to do Illumination or Drawing on Scrolls ..

   Check out used bookstores or Library's take a look in

the Art's area's and at the old Bible Illumination's and

the Book of Kells a lot of museum books have copy's of

different pages as well as you can buy books on

Illuminations as well online.  You can also find Idea's of

designs in the Heraldic books as well as make your own

designs with Fairy's, God/dess's, little people, and etc.

One book I have that show's Natural Middle Ages

Illumination's is called The Medieval Garden by Sylvia

Landsberg; ISBN#0-500-01691-7

Papers and Paints to use; use pencil to draw the outline

of your design then you want to get those very fine black

pens that you can get at most art's and crafts if not art

store's .. to go over with you want to get for the paper

type item to draw on is call Strathmore Bristol Smooth,

size 9x12, which is acid free, heavy weight, and a smooth

surface and is great for framing and will last; or you can

also get smaller or larger depending on what you want to

do .. if you want to get more traditional you can buy the

Fine Parchment Gold from most Office supply stores

anywhere from $15 to $21 a pack ..  there is ink which can

cover up the mistakes made on the Bristol and if you make

any mistakes on the Parchment is permanent or if you use

designs which the old scrolls were done I do not know the

name but once I get some I'll let you know what it is..  
   The Paint you want to use for Scrolls is Gouache.. the

least expensive priced Paints are by Reeves,18 tubes so

18x12mi gouache fine, the more expensive one is by Winsor

& Newton; Designers Gouache, Primary Colour Set 6x14Mi,

both of these are water colors and a little bit goes a

long way one friend who was great showed me that you can

take CD cases and use the inside front of it and you can

keep reusing the paints till they run out .. once there

dried there easy to put away till your ready to use again

.. if you really want to go much more traditional you can

buy the Calligraphy Ink's and they come in Black, Red,

Blue, Green, and Gold and Silver .. most New Age Stores at

times carry Calligraphy Pens or ones from a real feather

as I have but I will be using a Calligraphy pen soon

instead the feather pens do not last long .. the

Calligraphy pen which you can also use for painting the

Illuminations with the Inks I own is also by Winsor &

Newton and the Ink Cleaner to clean your pen is by

Liquitex Ink pen cleaner .. and very small fine thin paint

brushes to paint the inks and paints on with ..     

  I wish You Wonderful time with your Arts ***

         Sincerely,

          Rosemary ***