A little history about illuminated letters and then on to the project.

For this project the students were asked to pick a letter and then pick out things that begin with that letter to embellish it. For example, “F” for fox and forest. “O” for ocean. I stressed that the pieces are generally chock full of detail.

We used colored pencil and marker for the color and then used a gold acrylic paint for the illuminated part.

I sampled a bunch of gold paints and in the end I wasn’t thrilled with any of them. They tend to go on thin and need extra coats. But the up side of that is that we discovered the paint can be applied over the colored pencil or marker for a colorful shimmery finish.

One little girl did an homage to the recently deceased Eddie Van Halen.