My plan is to make one of the iconic pages from the Book of Kells exactly as the original artist did it, with everything made from scratch by me from parchment to pigments to quill pens. I’ve been practicing for a long time and have got a team of the worlds leading manuscript experts to test my pigments, explore theories and interpret results as part of this project. I am going to grow woad for blue pigment, collect lichen for purple, cook oak bark and scrape crystals from bacteria living in rocks … Continue reading Making Kells Kickstarter