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Site Maintenance
If you’re a regular you may be noticing that it looks just a little bit different here… Well, as Ann is adding Henna Parties to her repertoire, it came time to change the navigation just a little bit. It’s going to be a little bit hectic for a couple days, as we get [...]
The Medieval Calendar Part IV
This will probably be the last post concerning the medieval calendar. This is actually a quick note on the transition of the medieval calendar (Julian calendar) to what we use today (Gregorian calendar). The following is an excerpt from Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art by Roger S. [...]
New at Veronica’s Veil!
I am now offering henna body art!! Henna is a plant based paste and when applied to the skin leaves a beautiful temporary tattoo (one to four weeks). Depending on one’s skin it can turn out bright orange or a reddish brown to a deep chocolate brown. I will have picture examples [...]
The Medieval Calendar Part III
Sorry it has been a while since I last wrote. Getting ready for summer is busy, busy, busy. Like I said last time, in this third part I am going to talk about the kinds of illustrative works that accompany each month of the medieval calendar.
With each month there was [...]
The Medieval Calendar Part II
As I previously stated, in this second part I will explain the meaning some of those columns that look to be random letters and number to the left of the list of Saints’ days. Usually there are about three or four of these columns. For the visual example I have chosen a January page from [...]
The Medieval Calendar Part I
Since I have been working on a Calendar of the Saints I have learned so much. First off I learned how to read it. I know it sounds pretty bad but I must confess I am usually distracted by the art work and I never really gave much thought to the structure of the content. [...]
Carolingian Minuscule: A Little History
In 800 Charlemagne became Emperor of the West. One of his concerns was the educational and religious advancement of his subjects. With the help of one of his teachers, an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk named Alcuin, they went about developing and establishing a script that would be simple to write and read. Now to be clear [...]
Next Class
After watching my students on the second class day one thing I had forgotten about with calligraphy was the learning curve. On the first day, we just figured out the pen angle and ink flow. Next we practiced some lines and circles then we started our first script which was Carolingian Minuscule. This script was [...]
New Job
I have started a new part time job at the local arts center teaching calligraphy. So far I have only had one class and it seems to be going well. I must admit I thought it would be a little more difficult to teach the class. Taking into consideration it has been close to two [...]
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