25th - 28th April
Explore historical pigments and their use in subversive medieval art through drawing and painting. You will learn how to make your own watercolours and inks, which you will use to investigate the rich, perplexing, comic world of medieval wall paintings and manuscript marginalia.
You will learn how to grind and mix pigments with natural ingredients to make watercolours held in shells, the medieval paint palettes. Working on a small scale, you will immerse yourself in in the medieval world of imagination, fantasy and social comment, as you take manuscript marginalia as your inspiration.
There will be an outing to St. Botolph’s church to view the nearly complete cycle of 12th century wall paintings and to gain an understanding of local pigments and the extraordinary Romanesque style of illustration.
Full course details here
You will learn how to grind and mix pigments with natural ingredients to make watercolours held in shells, the medieval paint palettes. Working on a small scale, you will immerse yourself in in the medieval world of imagination, fantasy and social comment, as you take manuscript marginalia as your inspiration.
There will be an outing to St. Botolph’s church to view the nearly complete cycle of 12th century wall paintings and to gain an understanding of local pigments and the extraordinary Romanesque style of illustration.
Full course details here
