Platypus Doodles (Cont.)

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Another illumination doodle, this time from Tolkien's Genesis, the Valaquenta. The book is Christian Neo-Platonism at its finest, and eminently worthy of a much more skilled illuminator than I could ever be. Still, it's fun to try my hand at it and see what I can come up with.

The doodle is done in pitt pen on paper and then photocopied and colored in with conte markers (the ones often used for adult coloring books). The lines are pencil and the words are done with my best ballpoint pen (Parker). The background embroidery is from Guatemala (talk about a really skilled artist!).

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