From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #101 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Monday, June 22 1998 Volume 02 : Number 101 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Catalogs Re: [scribes]: Aquarelle? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 05:29:56 -0400 From: Lea Viljanen Subject: Re: [scribes]: Catalogs JimBear wrote: > in actuality how does $2.00 sound for gouache that covers approx. 100 sq. > inches??? Master John the artificer sells period pigments and gum > arabic.....you just have to do the boiling and the mulling...... Is there a book or some other information source around, which tells us how to make gouaches/paint from pigments & gum arabic? I have got the Cennini, but I don't recall it mentioning anything about boiling and mulling. I have tried a clueless experiment with just mixing terre vert and gum arabic, but needless to say, it wasn't that successfull. All information gratefully accepted and appreciated by a beginning scribe. There aren't any handy laurels around here. - -- Kerttu Katariinantytar Roisko Or, a tri-corporate ladybug aka Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen gules and sable. Lea.Viljanen@iki.fi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:10:58 -0100 (GMT-0100) From: Anna Troy Subject: Re: [scribes]: Aquarelle? On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 FITCHYBEAR@aol.com wrote: Sorry if I got my terminology wrong, I'm talking about the type of watercolor paints that are so popular now a days :-) Anna de Byxe > If I remember correctly, last year at Eowyn's we had a scribal day and > someone aquarelle and asked the same question......(this is a dyestuff for > fabric right?) while the blue when extracted was a very intense aqua, it had > the properties of being a lake colour and didn't seem to have enough oomf. It > is actually easier to mix down other period colours with white to make the > aqua colour which would also have the required oomf and be less likely to be > as fugitive.........either that or I'm totally wrong about what you are asking > about-JimBear > ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #101 *****************************