Inkwells&Illumination

Adventures in art, calligraphy and illumination. Same name on Instagram

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A quote from one of my favourite folk songs, Màiri's Wedding #calligraphy

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I've been having fun playing around with colour schemes

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Learning to paint people. This is a two panel picture frame and I'm not yet sure what to put in the other side

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Q is for Quiet, from #Matilda

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This style is growing on me #calligraphy #illumination

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@GenevieveCogman Thank you so much!

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One of my favourite quotes from @GenevieveCogman 's The Burning Page. This is one of my go-to book series for getting quotes from #Calligraphy #Illumination #theinvisiblelibrary

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And this one was for a family friend's birthday. It's not perfect but I've been really enjoying learning the style #illumination #calligraphy

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My first attempt at white vine lettering a while back. Messy, but it was a start

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This one was for a friend's birthday

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The latest installment in my alphabet series: Padstow Farewell Shanty in Kernewek. This one involved me throwing a pot of hot pink ink all over my desk. Oops #Calligraphy #kernewek
#illumination #seashanties

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And thus concludes the first entry into my book of poetry, and my very first attempt at gold leaf illumination
#Calligraphy #poetry

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It's unclear what the creature of the fourth line is. The translators I'm reading from speculate that it could be a crozier

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The third line on this page has debated meaning. It's assumed based on context that the word "cwy" in the original text was a typo, and that the scribe meant to write "dwy" (God). There's a chance that Taliesin was talking about some guy called Cwy, but we don't know who that is

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Llyfr Taliesin was actually written by several people. It's most likely that this poem wasn't written by the original Taliesin, but rather another poet writing under his name centuries after his death

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The Spoils of Annwfn is one of Taliesin's most cryptic poems. The poet was likely writing for an audience who already knew all of the context behind the poem, most of which is now lost to history. It's never revealed what the great tragedy being referred to actually entailed

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Over time, Taliesin became a mythical figure, with stories of him learning to shapeshift, being eaten and reborn by the sorceress Cerridwen, and serving in the court of King Arthur

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The Spoils of Annwfn from The Book of Taliesin, with the Middle Welsh on the left and a translation by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams. In which many people die of mysterious causes, and Taliesin gets progressively angrier about medieval Welsh monasticism

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And with another Longest Johns favourite, we're finally up to speed with my illuminated alphabet so far

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A Gaelic lullaby

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A song about Joan of Arc