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".
- ISBN10 0855327774
- ISBN13 9780855327774
- Publish Date September 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Search Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English