Day three hundred and eighteen: Since I usually work with prints, I guess I’ve tended to make sketches after them. There are, however, illuminated manuscripts in the collection at work, which date to a time before printing. At least in the West (the Chinese were using woodblocks for printing as early as the 9th century). Today’s drawing is based on a detail of St. Anne (Mary’s mother) in a French book of hours. Parisian, I believe, but I forget the exact date. In honor of the medium, I tried using the gouache setting on Corel Painter, and hunted for some metallic gold paint, which I never really found. I love the blue background of the original, which I imagine was probably expensive to produce, and has lasted 600 years or so.
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