[Antir_scribes] Allo... Tvorimir Danilov sdes.... Wyewood scribe

[Mir Plemmons]

Thanks, Bronwen!

(I was teasing myself - I was the butler, and feel buried under rust...)

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, AnTir Scribe
<antir.sablesable at gmail.com>wrote:

> Greetings Mir,
>
> Thought to offer you and the list - my small experience with young people.
>
> I too purchased a few sets of Reeves Gouache and plastic paint palettes
> (the ones with small holes) and cheap fine brushes.
>
> I designed a very simple graphic Lion's Cub Charter and had it printed onto
> some fine paper that I hand cut (won't do it that way again - will probably
> use paper similar to what the Kingdom uses for Charters).  The Design was
> very colorbook like and was made with very thick lines (that way, the paint
> is usually contained better because the printed toner has some resist
> qualities)
>
> The Design was small (8 x 10) and I would probably do it on 8.5 x 11 today.
>
> The design left off the names of the King and Queen so that these charters
> would be everlasting - I've used them for about 12 or 13 years - but only
> have about 4 or so left of the original 100.
>
> I also printed the design on regular copy paper and had first time kids use
> markers to show me how they intended to paint their real charter.
>
> Anyway - the thing is, that I tell the kids that when they are finished,
> they can take their piece to the Queen and offer it as a gift for Their
> Majesties use.  (I usually fill in the King and Queen names before it is
> given).  In addition to this, I also taught the children to bead a necklace
> to go with the award document.  This way, the King and Queen had all They
> needed to give out the award to a worthy child.
>
> I believe the kids found real satisfaction in their service and that this
> was a great teaching tool to help children learn service in AnTir.
>
> This is all sort of age and maturity dependent - some of the paintings were
> unusable.  But many Children really take this seriously - when they
> understand what they are painting.  Also, the coloring of a sample - up
> front - can prove a child's willingness and ability to complete the task.
>
> One of the most important things that I found with teaching kids (and some
> new adults) is that you only need a small dab of paint - and that the paint
> can be re-hydrated after it drys in the tray to still be useful.  Biggest
> problem - wasted paint.  Second biggest problem - trying to lay paint that
> was too dry.
>
>
> If you have not found your Domesday Boke Butler yet
> please look here
>
> http://scribes.antir.sca.org/domesday/BokeScribes.html
>
> Bronwen
>
> On 11/10/09, Mir Plemmons <mir.plemmons at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all.
>>
>> Somewhere under a shudderingly-large mound of rust rests the former
>> Wyewood
>> Domesday Butler...  The current host of Wyewood's Scriptorium (since Tam
>> moved) is desperately trying to *find* that butler, who most definitely
>> did
>> better scribing than I do now!
>>
>> Anyway, I've added this list so I actually *hear* things like His Maj
>> doesn't like two-color griffins sometime before I let someone waste time
>> on
>> it...
>>
>> Erm... I'm a large Russian (who isn't Pyotr), I marshal, chirurgeon and
>> field herald and like scribing because the gouache is an artsy break from
>> my
>> other volunteering, and yet is very forgiving when I put down the brush to
>> go handle something in a hurry. I'm mostly seen in Western, have been in
>> the
>> SCA for years, and only scribing very sporadically for the last several. I
>> got into charter painting when charters were brought to a shire social
>> meeting, so I'm recruiting using the same method.
>>
>> I do need advice - I have a few very interested children and would love to
>> get pointed to good ways to provide them with painting experiences that
>> aren't harmful to my brushes or our kinda-expensive charters yet let the
>> kids feel like they're doing something similar. Websites of cool line
>> drawings I can print? Suggestions of what you've seen work and appeal to
>> them?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> isttd,
>> Mir
>>
>> I was made to promise to *introduce* myself properly w/ title - but please
>> be welcome to ignore this - I'm Master Tvorimir Danilov, OP.
>> The part to pay attention to is that I am the Grand Puntiff of An Tir. You
>> have been warned...
>>
>> hee hee,
>> Mir
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