![]() ![]() © Letizia Morley 2019Īfter many many hours of work, here is the final result. Next I added acrylic gold ink to the vines, the celtic knot border and finally to the illuminated capital letter W. The ‘flame’ pattern at the bottom also hints at Sheol. The left is the rosy-tinted East and the right is the slightly more orange-toned red. The top is light blue to represent heaven, the bottom is a murky black-blue to represent Sheol. I wanted to give each ‘direction’ in the Psalm its own colour variation. Then I added colour using Winsor & Newton watercolours. I continued to first sketch with pencil, then trace over in pen all the elements of the border. Next I erased the pencil ruled lines from the text and went over the lines of the initial capital W with a Pigma Micron archival, non-smudging pigment pen. ![]() I made a mistake with the first line but couldn’t erase so I’ll cover this up later with white. The script I chose was Uncial, characteristic of the British Isles between the 3rd and 9th centuries. It encompasses the upmost heights and the deepest lows.įirst I ruled the lines and toned the paper with a light tan shade. I decided to calligraph a portion of Psalm 139 which describes the infinite space that God’s presence occupies and also mentions hell (Sheol). This exhibit explores in-between places and states of being. ![]() This April (April 15-18, 2019) the Transept Artists’ group of the University of St Andrews Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts is putting on its annual exhibition entitled ‘Space( )Between’. ![]()
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