The “Bestiary Project” category groups all blog posts related to my Bestiary Project together.
Here’s another bestiary progress update. With just a handful of pages left to write, the manuscript text is nearly complete. This has me excited to start painting soon. But even if I’ve finished writing, I cannot start on the decoration…
The medieval scribe's eye-skip mistake haped in my project. Read about what it is and how it happens in this blog post.
Celebrating the first anniversary of my bestiary project: Progress, challenges, acknowledgements, and future plans for this illuminated manuscript endeavor.
This blog post covers a brief exploration of the quire and folio marks found in the Aberdeen bestiary. This topic expands upon my post about quire signatures, catchwords and foliation, which I genuinely recommend reading if you want to understand…
Having finished copying the fourth quire, I'm authoring the third update of my bestiary project. In this update, I briefly celebrate a minor milestone for having finished approximately one-third of writing all the text. This is followed by a brief look into the upcoming section of the exemplar manuscript, which covers many birds.
I’ve posted the first progress update about my bestiary on July 25th, 2023. Since then, I’ve completed two additional quires. I showcase both in their own separate videos below. Additionally, I’d like to use this update to discuss the mistakes…
I announced my bestiary project on June 2nd, 2023. Now I’d like to post the first update on the progress I’ve made so far. Below you’ll find a video of the first quire that I’ve finished. In this blog post…
In a project that'll span the next 8+ years, I'm creating a medieval manuscript. My goal: to create an authentic bestiary according to medieval traditions. In this blog article I explain why I'm doing this and what my plans are.
