dinsdag 24 augustus 2010

progres report.

Hoe staan we ervoor met de status van het boek:

Een tabel die bijhoudt hoe ver we zijn met het maken van het boek.
De inhoud van de cellen geeft aan wanneer dit onderdeel is afgerond.
(x: geeft aan was of voordat we begonnen met dit bij te houden).

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Inleiding
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jaar 89
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2x
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4xx8/10-

jaar 90
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jaar 91
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jaar 92
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Woorden telling op de reeds geschreven pagina's:
87/1: 133 woorden
87/2: 234 woorden
87/3: 141 woorden
87/4: 138 woorden
89/1: 121 woorden
89/2: 258 woorden
89/3: 162 woorden
93/1: 122 woorden
93/2: 273 woorden

Geeft gemiddelden:
eerste pagina: 125 woorden
tweede pagina: 250 woorden
derde en viede pagina: 150 woorden

Waaruit dus volgt dat een gemiddeld jaardocument zo om en nabij: 675 woorden zou moeten bevatten.
Er volgt een tellling op de concept texten. 

donderdag 8 april 2010

Pictures of illumination in progress




Laura worked on the group picture with greenery, and made some lovely whitework. I finished year one (except for the faces, we asked in Jehan as our facepainting expert for those), and I started on the group picture at the castle several years later. In this picture I had finished the sky, using the method described a few posts earlier.

Update



We're having a computer night, no artwork going on, just digital fiddling around (we made a backup of this blog for instance...).

In previous weeks we did play around with the sugar gesso. We made it with storebought dissolved gum arabic, and it works very well! It gives a very nice domed surface with just one layer, and it sticks much better than the cold recipe, and is easier to apply than the warm recipe. So, we may end up sticking with this one for future projects!

Mistress Bridget warned us about it getting moldy, so we stored it in wet form and dried out in a mussel shell. In both forms it has kept fine, no moldiness, smellines or other funny stuff... Ok, the wet version does smell a little different after a month at room temperature in a jar, but not disgustingly so, and the pigment has settled to the bottom a little. On the jar of gum arabic there is no mention of preservatives used, but there may be some in there.

donderdag 4 maart 2010

New gesso recipe

1 part dry gum arabic (powder)
4 parts distilled water
1 part unprocessed sugar;

Reading up on sugar to see what kind of sugar would be most appropriate to use we find out that all the various kinds have had some kind of treatment or added ingredient. We'll just use what we have and see where it gets us...

Dissolve, filter, apply.

We'll try a first experiment with this recipe using pre-dissolved gum arabic, which is what we happen to have.