WHY NOT ILLUMINATE A BIBLE?

Then I thought it might be cool to have special ornamentation around the book titles (i.e. Genesis, Exedus, etc.). That took awhile. Then I started doing ornamentation around each large capital letter at the beginning of each chapter, and trying to make each one differ from the others. That carried me through the second year.

I noticed that there were blank spaces in the text, usually between the books, and I could really have fun with those spaces....there was room for some pretty elaborate designs. The hard part was there was no preplanning, and I was working in waterproof ink, which couldn't be erased.

After filling in all of those spaces, I noticed that the front family registration pages were pretty bland and could use some drawing accents, so I outlined what was there and then added to that. I'm actually calling it "finished", but now I'm looking at the binding.....hmmmm.

I like the idea of working with a fine line pen like the Micron. The ink is waterproof, permanent, and you can draw very fine detailed lines and ornament with them. The size that I use is .005, which I believe is the smallest that they make. You have to do some mental planning especially when doing more complex designs, but I tend to work in a "improvise as you go" mode. If you feel more comfortable using a pattern that you've found or worked out....by all means do it that way.