I'm all for fun school work. I know that sometimes in life one simply has to knuckle down and do the work regardless of the fun factor or lack there of. However, as Mary Poppins once said 'a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down' (I'm currently breaking off into song - you should be glad…
Category: Art Study – Medieval Illumination
Art Study – Medieval Illumination
Our artist study this term will be the Limbourg Brothers. They are famous for their 'Book of Hours' which is full of some of the most beautiful illuminations. Before we studied their work in depth, I had decided we would look at medieval illuminations as an art form first to become familiar with them as…
Creating an Illuminated Letter
This week we begun our study into the illuminated letter. This is as a prelude to our artist study on the Limbourg brothers. I shall be doing a full post on Friday, but today we made our own illuminated letters and had loads of fun. Yesterday I had prepared them for this activity by reading through and letting…