From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #37 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, February 5 1998 Volume 01 : Number 037 In this issue: [scribes]: Intro and responses to misc posts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:55:58 -0400 From: wyverns Subject: [scribes]: Intro and responses to misc posts I understand we are supposed to introduce ourselves. . . I am Lady Enid nicEoin of Ponte Alto in Atlantia. I started in SCA almost 20 years ago, learning beginning scribe stuff in Jararvellir in Middle Kingdom (Back in those days, we used paint markers and gold pens for scrolls!), and have been doing scribe and music and other stuff here in Ponte Alto for almost 10 years. I do (hopefully adequately) whatever hand matches the illumination (my real joy) that I happened to pick. My recent favorite is those borders with the solid gold backgrounds, and I have been experimenting with techniques to get the gold to look right (you get a real education in paper grain if you don't use the right technique). With most issues, I'll argue either side of the arguement with equal ferver; about certain issues, however, I can be very opinionated and stubborn. Comments/responses: Someone said '[snip] . . .That was about 4 years ago--I still don't think the person has their device passed. As the SCA grows, it seems to be getting harder and harder to get arms registered. [snip, snip]' - --I'd argue that that was a great reason to make real scrolls, even if sections have to be blank, especially if the alternative is a photocopied-and-magic-marked promisory. Personally, I think promisories are given too often to people who already have their arms passed, or for awards/orders that don't require having arms. Until THAT gets dealt with, whether real scrolls are 'blank' or not is a secondary concern. Someone else commented about seeing celtic (Dover) border promisories in Atlantia. I believe 'we' have been using a set of 'standard' promisories with celtic borders and calligraphy text for many years. Batches of them are periodically photocopied and colored in, usually with magic marker, restocking as needed. Periodically, scriptoriums or individuals will donate batches of promisories of their own design (made by photocopying, then calligraphing or calligraphing, then photocopying - -- colored in by several means) for variety. If promisories are going to be a long time in coming, IMHO promisories should be as close to hand done as reasonably feasable with the available time and skill. Acrylic paint: I have used acrylic paint just enough to know that it acts different from guache (sp?) and watercolors. There might be some pattern or figure I would practice with acrylic (if I had any), but I wouldn't think you could get much out of practicing painting techniques with it as a cheap substitute for guache. - --Some reasons I prefer guache: at least some acrylics are sticky; if they dry out they can't be reused; and if the tube cracks, they dry out. You don't waste a drop of guache--you just add water. - --I was introduced to guache some eight years or so ago and have become the queen of color gradiants; I have stacks of six-dish paint treys, each with four to six shades/gradients of the same color (and various mixed colors as convenient). Shockingly, I occasionally still need to make a new trey with shades of a new color or yet more shades of the same color (usually yet more pale - I am always surprised how close I can get to white and still get three shades more pale the next time), but mostly I have sets adequate for most any need. Can't do that with acrylic. - -Nuff for now - --Enid ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #37 ****************************