Medieval Illumination Workshop

Dates: 1st and 2nd of May 2004
Duration: 12h
Professor: Laurence Couteaux, medievalist caligraphist
Techniques:

• Tempera painting (substituted by oil painting during the Renaissance)
• Flat gilding
• Raised and burnished gilding

Ingredients:

Tempera Painting

• 1 egg yolk, water, gum arabic, pigments

Gilding

• 24 carat gold leaf
• flat gilding: pressed garlic/egg white, honey, water, gilding ink (encre à dorer)
• raised gilding: for the gesso base: chalk/red clay (longer preparation), white sugar/honey, animal glue (fish, rabbit or parchment)

Materials:

• parchment, paper, blotting paper, cardboard, black and colour ink, sponge, shells, flasks, brushes, pencils, cloth