On Wednesday I picked up watercolors for the first time since middle school, and once again I learned the importance of having watercolor paper to use with watercolors. Before the scriptorium, I had decided to illustrate a Celtic letter “U” with some spirals between the two posts of the “U”. All was going well with the sketching and coloring -I was pretty much done- until I decided to try my hand at gilding. Things swiftly went downhill as my once somewhat decent letter “U” turned into a mess of running felt-tip ink, sticky glue and flaky gold.
But, despite this post sounding overwhelmingly negative, I actually had a lot of fun. It was like I was back in carefree elementary school for an hour, trying to color between the lines, and the presence of food definitely helped.
