Finished illuminations

I copied the design for these a few (well, several!) years ago, and kind of forgot about them, then we got back into painting stuff and now they are finished!

The design came from a book of hours made around 1470. In the original, the square in the middle is filled with a picture of the annunciation, which I left out to leave room for a text.

The gold is gold leaf on a modern acrylic based glue. Almost all the paint (except for the red and pink) was made by Bertrik using a gum arabic base and terra verde pigment for the green, ochre pigmenst for the yellow and azurite (?) for the blue. I did the lining with a modern fine liner with permanent ink.