From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #166 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Friday, July 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 166 In this issue: [scribes]: Brushes & a request Re: [scribes]: Tools of the trade Re: [scribes]: making your own pigments Re: [scribes]: Lettering Guide ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:12:50 +0100 From: Christina Nevin Subject: [scribes]: Brushes & a request > Aidan here. I keep seeing people listing assorted sizes of really tiny > brushes (10/0, 20/0, etc.) on their "must have" list. I am beginning to > suspect that I am some sort of a mutant--the smallest brush I have is a > 3/0. And I do really tiny stuff (sometimes) with no problem. I used to > paint D&D miniatures (shhh....) with those really really tiny brushes, > but can't imagine using them on scrolls. Hmmmm. Am I the only twisted > soul out there painting teeny tiny lines with a great big brush? I know, > its the Robert of Coldcastle gene in me.... > > Ms. Aidan Greetings! No, you aren't the only one Aidan, I've never bothered with anything smaller than a 3/0 and I have no problems with detailing. The quality of the brush is of course of paramount importance (as well as the amount of alcohol and caffeine in your system :-). Kolinski sable with a small amount of squirrel is the best I have personally found (did you know it's really a breed of mink, not sable? very confusing), with the hand-clamped ferrules. Expensive, but worth it. I have one that's lasted me years - unlike acrylics (oops, bad word, bad word). And I also served my apprenticeship painting D&D figures and armies. I think it taught me a lot which is directly applicable to illumination. Last time I looked I still only had two eyes . On another note, our mail server went down and trashed two days of digests. Could I get someone official to please send me #156-159? Thanks in advance. Lucrezia ========================================================== Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia | mka Tina Nevin Thamesreach Shire, The Isles, Drachenwald | London, UK www.geocities.com/~thorngrove | thorngrove@geocities.com "There is no doubt that great leaders prefer hard drinkers to good versifiers" - Aretino ========================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 04:33:21 -0400 From: Pete Steiner Subject: Re: [scribes]: Tools of the trade Jim, Rotring makes (or at least they used to make) refillable adapters for the Art Pen. You can load them with anything that will flow through the nib. Some colors of gouache would probably work. - -Pete- FITCHYBEAR@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-07-16 06:14:05 EDT, talis@earthlink.net writes: > > << Also, how do the cartridge inks hold up > with time, exposure to light etc? I guess we'll find out eventually. > > Talisidhe >> > > I've been using a Rotring Art Pen for about ten years now and the ink holds > up suprisingly well although I am not happy with the density of colour in the > coloured ink cartridges from the get go to watery and transparent. Has anyone > tried refilling an empty Rotring cartridge with gouache?-JimBear ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 04:41:13 -0400 From: Pete Steiner Subject: Re: [scribes]: making your own pigments Anna, you can get Lapis, Malachite and Azurite from Olympic Mountain Gems http://www.omgems.com Their prices are good, and the service is outstanding. Be aware that making Ultramarine from Lapis is a complicated process....much more difficult than grinding Malachite. I'll describe it if you're interested. - -Pete- (Gwer Rychen von Bern) Anna Troy wrote: > The fact of the matter is that I already have yellow and red ocher > (spelled right?) that I gathered from a ditch. I was therefore wondering > if there is any place on-line where you can buy lapis and malachite in > it's raw, unpolished state. I'm also interested in if anybody has made > their own copperoxid green, what did you do, leave some pieces of copper > in lemon-juice or the like? :-) > > yours truly, > > Anna de Byxe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:06:16 -0700 From: deplazes@polar.polarcomm.com (Nic) Subject: Re: [scribes]: Lettering Guide I second that - I can't get mine to make any sense either. I even interogated it under hot lights! Giulia The Ames lettering guide impaired >OK, still feeling dumb and inadequate here...grrrr...just exactly how >does one use the (Ames) lettering guide? I never got it, still dont get >it.... >Ms. Aidan, the eternally clueless Lady Giulia Isabella da Venezia Nicolette Deplazes Rudivale - Northshield - Middle Larimore North Dakota Grand Forks - North Dakota And just for the enjoyment of Alessandra Hot - Hot - Hot Sunny - Sunny - Sunny ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #166 *****************************