From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #1539 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, April 27 2000 Volume 02 : Number 1539 In this issue: RE: FW: [scribes]: Got a Question on the Unusual Side..... Re: [scribes]: How I Started Scribing (was: Got a Question on the Unusual Side) Re: [scribes]: How I Started Scribing (was: Got a Question on the Unusual Side) RE: [scribes]: Re: Got a Question on the Unusual Side... [scribes]: joing [scribes]: How I got into calligraphy Re: [scribes]: joing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:35:06 -0700 From: "Kenneth Stoner" Subject: RE: FW: [scribes]: Got a Question on the Unusual Side..... My story isn't quite so glamorous... I got hauled along to a "Calligraphers Guild" meeting by a really pretty girl that I really liked. :) When I go to the meeting Auntie Karyn (she's on the list!) made me learn black letter. And made me paint. And was generally persistent in her attempts to turn me into a scribe. And Kazamira, whose house the guild meeting was in, gave me ice cream with cordial sauce in it... Anyways... the ice cream was pretty good so I went back the following month. And the fact that I was the only guy that went (at least, that I remember!) had nothing to do with it! I ended up buying some of my own gouache and a bottle of Pelikan Gold Ink. Between Kazamira and Mistress Karyn I learned enough that when I joined the Navy a year later I was able to keep on learning by myself. The Calligraphy came in usefull as well. Seems like EVERYONE in the military has a need for someone who can do black letter.... And remarkably, for almost the exact same reasons the Society does: Awards and Medals. When I finally settled down in Calafia, (that's in Caid) I somehow ended up in charge of the scriptorium. Don't ask me how... they must have been desperate. Cystennin PS: I like this thread. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-scribes@castle.org [mailto:owner-scribes@castle.org]On Behalf Of Jane M Tremaine Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:00 PM To: Holly Cochran Cc: scribes@castle.org Subject: RE: FW: [scribes]: Got a Question on the Unusual Side..... As long as I can remember I have been in love with the romance of the middle ages and paint. Illumination seems to be a natural part of me. I got started in 1987 when I went to the home of Mistress Louise of Woodsholm and saw some of her work. I thought I can do that and bought a book. I still am buying books and painting. Lady Jana Aoibeall CAID, Calafia, Drafn, Blackened Pot ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 03:11:49 PDT From: "Isolde the Nimble Fingered" Subject: Re: [scribes]: How I Started Scribing (was: Got a Question on the Unusual Side) Major snippage... cares and >teaches, even long distance. So this would be an "extention course?" Isolde, ducking and running. Motto: Tytyvyllus me admittere impellit. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:20:25 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ke?= Eldberg Subject: Re: [scribes]: How I Started Scribing (was: Got a Question on the Unusual Side) I began scribing in the local Tolkien group, which has a book where one person is always selected to write a (humorous) account of every event. I wanted to make my contribution something extra so I got a calligraphy pen and did some illustrations (stolen from Baines). Many years later when I joined the SCA I sang a song at an event and the Prince of Drachenwald wanted the lyrics, so I made them in scroll form -- and was promptly appointed Signet Clerk. William de Corbie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:49:40 -0700 From: sburnell@raex.com Subject: RE: [scribes]: Re: Got a Question on the Unusual Side... - --- Original Message --- Mark Calderwood Wrote on Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:40:20 +1000 ------------------ >I always knew there was something magical in those >manuscripts... Giles, What a great story! I, too, have always rather thought there was something magical in those Manuscripts. How someone like me, so (or so I always thought) utterly lacking in anything resembling artistic talent could even think to produce 14th century bar and ivy illuminated pages has always amazed me! I remember in college being mesmerised by MS. pages in my art history classes and wishing, once I had found and joined the SCA, that I could make them. And now I can! Of course, six years of almost unending practise as a scribe for the Kingdom didn't hurt, either. I no longer produce the volume of work I did back then, largely because I burned out and got away from scribing for a period of some years to pursue music, dance and fiber arts, but when I came back to it after the long hiatus, I found that, while it took a little longer to do a scroll than it did in my early 20's, still, my skills had basically not diminished, although my eyesight isn't as good as it once was, and a little arthritis has crept into my hands. But there is still that astounding gratification of finishing a scroll and standing back and admiring my handiwork. I guess I find it still hard to believe that I can do scribing at all. I always considered myself first and foremost to be a musician, not an artist, although the rest of my siblings are very talented artists and so is my mother. I used to joke that the "art gene" skipped me and that instead, I inherited my father's musical talents. (He had been a jazz trumpeter during the 1940's, although he died when I was still a toddler.) Well, I guess I must have underestimated myself all those years! And now, nothing gives me more pleasure than to see the looks on people's faces when they get one of my scrolls and seek me out to thank me. That just thrills me to no end! And that is the reward for all the sweat and labour of doing a scroll - the joy that it gives someone else! I, too, believe in that "magic" in the Manuscripts! :-) THLady Saradwen Ariandalen Marche of Gwyntarian (Akron/Kent, OH) Midrealm - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:35:02 -0700 From: "Elisabeth Suit" Subject: [scribes]: joing So...how do I join the list? Eli ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:51:26 GMT From: "Russell Husted" Subject: [scribes]: How I got into calligraphy How did I get started, well that is easy. I walked into my second event, StarGate winter yule(Ansteorra), and ran into a friend I had taught with several years earlier, Curstaidh Magorlick. She is very energetic about the scribal arts and seeing me for the first time she walked up to me, gave me a hug and asked "Do you have any scroll designs for me? How are you? I have some charters do you want to paint? Wow you kids have grown." and thus I started. I had never really done calligraphy although I loved to play with the pens and owned several. I like doing art, and had done some comercial art in college, company logos and stuff like that. But had never done any illumination. I had oil painted once. I started designing scrolls, and was paired up with a calligrapher, but the distance and infrequency of seeing each other made it very frustrating, so I started teaching myself calligraphy. The local scribe in our group, having seen some of my designs asked me to do the blackline artwork for some scrolls she had design. She would take care of the rest. I did. I was asked to do two baronial awards. Then I got roped into doing a baronial investiture scroll. I came willingly. They handed me a 1"x2" picture and said we want it done like this. O.K. I studied the hand and learned to reproduce it--not bastarde not bartard but something somewhere in the middle. It came out nice. Well since then with the encouragement of Mistress Rose, Baroness Curstaidh Magorlick, and Baroness Hillary, I am still going and learning more every day. Thank you for asking my story. your servant, mahee ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:00:04 -0500 From: "Helen Schultz" Subject: Re: [scribes]: joing Responded to privately . KHvS - ----- Original Message ----- From: Elisabeth Suit To: Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: [scribes]: joing > So...how do I join the list? > > Eli > ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #1539 ******************************