Oak gall ink and rastrum nibs

Drawing guides for staves

Template guide for staves and decorative initials

Rastrum

Practice page

Drawing staves on the folios

Drawing the staves

Leaving room for decorated initials

Using oak gall ink to draw staves

Using the rastrum nib to draw staves

drawing staves on one page at a time

Following guidelines to draw staves

Pages ready for illumination

Quaternions calligraphed and numbered

Table of contents ready for illumination

Pigment box

Another piece of wood work made for me by my husband!

Egg Vair 1.jpeg

Making egg vair

Whiting chalk to make pigment into gouache

Egg vair setting

Grinding malachite and adding chalk

Grinding ultramarine with chalk

Mixed Gouache

Paint testing: egg vair compared with gum arabic

Table of contents with illumination

Pages I and II of Music Book with illumination