The middle school art students enjoyed a "visit to the British Isles" where we learned about Celtic Illuminated letters. During the middle ages, when clerics and scribes translated the Bible and other manuscripts for the church or kings, they would sometimes decorate, or illuminate the first letter of a paragraph. Students got to see some real examples from a book of illuminated scriptures. They then got to choose a letter to illuminate of their own. Some chose one of their initials and some just chose a letter that they liked and had an idea for. One of my many talented students, Teagan Madden, even did some research and illuminated her family's last name and initial with her family crest. Enjoy these wonderful masterpieces! (Click on each photo to see more closely.)
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