Making Medieval black ink using Rosehip oil || for a Medieval Illuminated Rose Miniature

Welcome (back) to my channel! As you may know, I’m doing a PhD research at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in Londen on the topic of Painting Paradise using Paradisiacal materials (i.e. non-toxic, etc), and the way we can learn from this in terms of sustainability in art. For my research, I’m trying to connect theme and execution of art works, meaning that I if I paint about something like Paradise, which is the epitome of life, I also want that life to be part of my materials. So no harmful heavy-metals or toxic ingredients in my paints. I call this approach a holistic way of making art. These past few months I have been taking the Rose as a subject of study and research. I have been experimenting with merging theme and execution in my works on roses and have been pondering the idea of ‘the essence of the rose’. In terms of holistic art about roses, I decided to incorporate as many elements of a rose into my materials, to let the rose herself tell her own story. And so, I start