Week Four - #3

I started to explore ways to represent text in a piece of art and I was drawn to manuscripts. Thomas Rhymer, the main character in the fairy tale I’m representing was alleged to have lived in the 13th century, so I looked for 13th century manuscripts. I basically narrowed it down to two style of manuscript. The first two found below are illuminated manuscripts from the 13th century in Scotland and the third option is a book with an etching published using a printing press a few hundred years later.

I originally felt compelled to pick the etching one because I had been working on an etching all week but ultimately, I felt the illuminated manuscript with the colors and simplified figures is better suited to the fairy tale. At this point I decide to make a manuscript as my final project.

I got started digitally making my font and laid out my fairy tale in InDesign. I want to lay it all out in InDesign and then print a stencil of it and fill it all in by hand. This is derivative of the original procedure when making manuscripts in the past.