I have more and more been using the translucent quality of calfskin vellum to artistic advantage. In my recent drawings of the Invention of ...

There are a few books that are especially useful to anyone who wishes to understand or to make religious art; living in an time when its...

I have written in defense of the traditional hagiographies of patristic and medieval times, the wonderful accounts of the miracles and ...

Emile Mâle: It was no new departure when at the end of the thirteenth century Jacobus de Voragine wrote the famous Golden Legend , for ...

http://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/hugh_lincoln.html http://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/adelaide.html These two drawings, rece...

When drawing on very smooth calfskin or goatskin, I am able to use two methods, sponge-stamping and decalcomania, that are more commonl...

Vellum and parchment are animal skins that have been soaked in limewater, scraped clean of flesh and fat, depilated, stretched, and pol...

I use Winsor & Newton calligraphers’ ink for most purposes. This ink is pigment-based, and more lightfast than dye-based ink. I als...

I bought a supply of papyrus about a year ago, mostly because my children were interested in Ancient Egypt. I’ve done a few small exper...

Bristol board is my usual choice for drawing on paper; there is nothing really special about it, but it works well. I usually buy Strathm...

I have read several diferent illustrators remark that the question they are most often asked is what pen they use - implicitly complain...

http://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/sacred_heart_washi.html There is some measure of irony in any historical revival or traditionalist...

A few weeks ago, I posted a description of the Summula Pictoria , a magnum opus that I hope to complete over the next fourteen years. I h...

I am eager to begin a new, ambitious task, which I hope to complete over the next fourteen years (in which I can be reasonably confident t...

I was born in Georgia, USA, in 1982, and raised in Illinois. I attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH from 2000 to 2004, where I studi...