Description of the Illumination: This tan and black illuminated letter "D" has a transparent Celtic knot twisted around it's center, so this will turn the color of your webpages. Below are a few illuminated scriptures: one is from Luke and the other from Galations, these are not transparent, but come in a variety of tan, beige and chalkboard grey.
"Do to others, as you would have them do unto you." Luke 6:31
"For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command:
Love your neighbor as yourself." Galations 5: 13-14
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"Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my right. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness." Micah 7:9 (NIV)
Description of the Illumination: three verses from the book of Micah illuminated with a figurative letter "B", medieval costumed figures shaped like a "B", white backgrounds
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"Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl." Micah 1:8 (NIV) and "In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.'" Micah 2:4 (NJV)
Illuminated Scripture, 1 Peter 5:7 comes in five colors: pumpkin,
cranberry, purple, hunter's green and brilliant blue. Click directly
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Description of Illustration: an illuminated letter "C" cradles a blooming poppy at it's center, tangled vines, the scripture "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7, the text is on a transparent background perfect for blending into any webpages!
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Description of Illustration: the word, "The" illuminated in multiple colors, the word itself is transparent and will take on the colors of your webpages.
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Description of Illustration: the word, "Pentecost" illuminated with flames in orange, yellow and red
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Description of Illustration: the word, "My" illuminated in multiple colors, the word itself is transparent and will take on the colors of your webpages.
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Description of Illustration: scripture
from Isaiah with an illuminated letter "T" it will become the color
of your pages when you upload it onto your blog. scripture "Thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel. "In returning and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength." Isaiah 30:15 NKJV
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This illuminated scripture comes in a dark forest green, beige, gold and teal. It has a floral motif.
Description of Illustration: scripture from Jeremiah with an illuminated letter "T" it will become the color of your pages when you upload it onto your blog. scripture "The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying:"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you." Jeremaih 31:3
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This scripture is decorated with flowers, brambles in pink, aqua, teal and bright blue. Click directly
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Description of Illustration: An Illuminated "T" on a transparent background. The letter will light up with whatever colored background you place the graphic on top of. the scripture reads "The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD." Lamentations 3:25-26
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One of many lovely initials from the Middle Ages,
restored for contemporary use.
OW consider illustrating a bulletin or newsletter with Medieval, initial letters. There are many resources for initial letters on the internet. I will include a couple of free samples from my new collection below for visitors to use in their hard copy publications and a listing of additional collections on the web at the end of this post.
The classical tradition, according to Wikipedia, was late to use capital letters for initials
at all; in surviving Roman texts it often is difficult even to separate
the words as spacing was not used either. In the Late Antique period
both came into common use in Italy, the initials usually were set in the
left margin (as in the third example below), as though to cut them off
from the rest of the text, and about twice as tall as the other letters.
The radical innovation of insular manuscripts was to make initials much
larger, not indented, and for the letters immediately following the
initial also to be larger, but diminishing in size (called the
"diminuendo" effect, after the musical notation). Subsequently they
became larger still, coloured, and penetrated farther and farther into
the rest of the text, until the whole page might be taken over. The
decoration of insular initials, especially large ones, was generally
abstract and geometrical, or featured animals in patterns. Historiated
initials were an Insular invention, but did not come into their own
until the later developments of Ottonian art, Anglo-Saxon art, and the Romanesque style in particular. After this period, in Gothic art
large paintings of scenes tended to go in rectangular framed spaces,
and the initial, although often still historiated, tended to become
smaller again.
In the very early history of printing the typesetters would leave blank the necessary space, so that the initials could be added later by a scribe or miniature painter. Later initials were printed using separate blocks in woodcut or metalcut techniques.
"For a century after the invention of printing, (Johannes Gutenberg, 1439) the art of illuminating made steady progress; but from that time it began gradually to decline, anrated in chd although it still existed so late as the seventeenth century, it was rarely practiced, and almost wholly confined to religious and heraldic books. The discovery of engraving on wood having quickly followed that of printing, the drawings of the time were copied and multiplied by this cheaper process. The progress, also, of the reformation, and other religious and political causes, having at the same time combined to withdraw from Art the patronage it had received in most of the countries of Europe for so many ages, the fashion of illustrating books dwindled in frequency, degenearacter, and ultimately ceased altogether." Henry Shaw
Here you can see three examples of initial letters used to decorate a page from an illuminated manuscript, a book describing the history and practice of using initial letters and also a page from an illuminated hymnal.
Initial Letter "A" from my new collections.
This letter was drawn by Albert Durer in 1499
Initial Letter "F" from my new collections
Description of Illustration: initial letters "F", "A" and "N" in color
Watch this professional calligrapher craft an initial letter,"F."
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