From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #95 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, February 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 095 In this issue: [scribes]: my scribal day - a tad long Re: [scribes]: my scribal day - a tad long [scribes]: note of introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:55:06 EST From: Seton1355 Subject: [scribes]: my scribal day - a tad long Greetings Fellow Scribes! Well, I just had a wonderful/frustrating/interesting/and I learned something scribal experience - may I share? Last week I got a piece of acid-free Bristol board all prepared to write on. The lines for the wording were all spaced correctly. The border was a good width. My illuminated capitol was blocked out. I was all ready to go! Today, Saturday, I decided that I would have a good block of time to work uninterupted on the calligraphy. I chose my ink (Calli) my self-filled cartridge pen (Osmeroid), and a dip pen. Off I started! First mistake: Misspelled the Princess's name. (oh darn! - now it's a demo scroll.) I KEEP GOING - all the calligraphy looks really good in general, I can tell I'm getting better. Second mistake: (and here's a hint for everybody :) ) If your background color is off-white, yellow ink will barely show up! AND some might consider it a touch rude to write out the Kingdom's name so that it is not easily readable. I KEEP GOING - I decide that the A's in Award of Arms should stand out, so I will make them a different color than the rest of the writing. Opps! I don't have a pen set up with the right size nib & color. What to do? - fiber-tip! WRONG!!! (oh well, live & learn.) Now the up side to all of this is, my lettering is getting much better. I can "feel " the flow of the ink, so I'm getting used to it. I practiced with a dip pen and feel less & less intimidated by one. And looking over the overall effect of the scroll I can see that it is not a "photo-copy" of anything but individually written out. AND I'M PLEASED WITH THAT! I read recently, was it here?, that our 20th century eyes are so used to everything (stitching, writing, nailing etc.) being perfectly lined up and THE SAME. But that is only because the thing we see was machine made. Things done by hand will always have slight variations in them.] It's funny how you can spot your mistakes at 100 yards but still be pleasd with something.... Well, I have the illumination to work out, so it's back to the drafting board.... Keep well all of you! "Cousin" Phillipa ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:41:43 -0800 From: guineth@juno.com (Emily SD Thompson) Subject: Re: [scribes]: my scribal day - a tad long On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:55:06 EST Phillipa Seton writes: > Second mistake: (and here's a hint for everybody :) ) If your >background color is off-white, yellow ink will barely show up! Dear Phillipa and everybody, Easy way to deal with this problem: once the ink is dry, get out your 00 technical pen, fill with permanent black, and carefully outline each letter. Alternatively, use a colorfast dark brown. Wash out your pen as soon as you are done, though; those pigmented colors can gunk up a technical pen quite thoroughly in relatively short order .... I do this with every midrange to light color, and even some of the darker colors. You would be surprised at how it makes it pop out. By the way, you are absolutely right to KEEP GOING. If one does not keep going, one does not get in the habit of finishing things. And once it is finished, one can even sometimes see a way to fix it that did not occur to one during the process. Sister Guineth the White Dragons Mist, An Tir guineth@juno.com mka Emily Thompson Hillsboro Oregon _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:42:18 -0400 From: Guy & Sharon Campbell Subject: [scribes]: note of introduction Greetings from yet another scribe. As per Lord Christopher's request, I guess I am supposed to introduce myself. I am called Felicity Blindshooter, and I have been active in the Northern backwaters of the East Kingdom for about 11 years now, in or near the Barony of Ruantallan. My "scribal interests" (?) encompass the obvious production of Kingdom scrolls, mainly in Celtic and Ottonian styles...also dabbling in Bastard Secretary, and Late Period Italian. 'Bye for now. Lady Felicity Blindshooter mka Tamatha-Lynn Campbell Ruantallan, East Kingdom Middleton, Nova Scotia ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #95 ****************************