From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V4 #6 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Friday, October 13 2000 Volume 04 : Number 006 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. [scribes]: Idea for a seminar class Re: [scribes]: Re: Grisaille + Question [scribes]: Re: Grisaille + Question [scribes]: FW: scribal collegium ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:48:38 -0400 From: Janice Safran Subject: [scribes]: Idea for a seminar class I am thinking of putting a class together: a seminar class on feather-curing methods. I don't want to simply present a class, because I would love to pick the brains of my fellow scribes (I've also never done a class before, and I am quaking in my boots at the thought). Does this sound like a viable idea to any of you scribes? Would you promise not to point and laugh if I did such a thing? : ) Lady Jehane, who is hoping to photocopy pictures for the class this coming weekend. <<<<<<<<<<<< Die dulci fruere. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:33:24 EDT From: RenScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: [scribes]: Re: Grisaille + Question In a message dated 10/13/00 8:49:34 AM, delacroi29@yahoo.com writes: > >I was given an excellent article from TI from THL Eibhlin which >outlined one technique using period pigments in portrait work. > Clarification: I gave Antoinette a copy of the TI article "A Short Treatise on the Art of Limning and Other Diverse Related Arts" by Mark Yungblut in issue #127, Summer 1998. I don't want anyone to think I wrote the article. Geez, I only wish I could paint that well.... let alone write and teach other folks how to do it. :-) Eibhlin =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:00:21 -0500 From: "Amy L. Hornburg Heilveil" Subject: [scribes]: Re: Grisaille + Question > > >I was given an excellent article from TI from THL Eibhlin which > >outlined one technique using period pigments in portrait work. > > > >Clarification: >I gave Antoinette a copy of the TI article "A Short Treatise on the Art of >Limning and Other Diverse Related Arts" by Mark Yungblut in issue #127, >Summer 1998. > >I don't want anyone to think I wrote the article. >Geez, I only wish I could paint that well.... >let alone write and teach other folks how to do it. :-) > >Eibhlin further information for those who aren't aware of it: Mark Yungblut is known in the society as Baron Master Wulfgang von Roessler - his art is impeccable and his jewelry makes men hate him (since all the women make their men spend their money on it) :+) - beautiful late period stuff. YIS Despina de la Brasov =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:15:57 -0400 From: "Linda Pancrazio" Subject: [scribes]: FW: scribal collegium Please reply to Lady Anastasia at wahrman@wam.umd.edu Thank You! Yours, Geva - -- Lady Genevieve d'Evreux Atlantian Clerk Signet http://scribe.atlantia.sca.org - -----Original Message----- From: scribes-owner@csc.ncsu.edu [mailto:scribes-owner@csc.ncsu.edu] On Behalf Of Stacey Jill Wahrman Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:31 PM To: LINDA PANCRAZIO Cc: 'atlantian scribes' Subject: scribal collegium Unto the Good Scribes, Past, Present, and Future, of the Kingdom of Atlantia, does Anastasia da Firenze, the Deputy Clerk of the Signet for New Scribes, send greetings. As many of you are aware, we will be having a scribal collegium, hosted by Caer Gelin, February 24 (Keswick, VA, near Richmond). Right now we are getting classes together, and invite anyone interested in teaching to submit a class idea. We would like to have three tracks of classes: beginning, intermediate, and advanced, running simultaneously thorugh the day, with five classes in each track. The designations of "beginning," "intermediate," and "advanced" are based on the amount of experience we would suggest you have in order to take them, but please feel free to take whatever classes interest you. Scribes are notoriously modest about their work, and people who think of themselves as intermediate might find that advanced classes are more useful. Beginning classes will be mostly geared towards absolute newcomers to the scribal arts. I will be posting course descriptions to the scribe's list and the Merry Rose in advance of the event, and I will try to note what experience would be useful or, in some cases, necessary. We are also viewing this collegium as a chance for the scribes of Atlantia to get together as a large group and meet one another. We would very much like to have a scribal display set up during the day so that people have a chance to view one another's work, and we hope that the location will be convenient to as many people as possible. Please see upcoming issues of the Acorn for hotel and alternative accomodation information, and for directions. We as yet have a completely open schedule, just waiting for eager teachers to claim spots. I offer the suggestions below merely as an inspirational tool, but think there would be significant interest in the topics listed if we could get people to teach them. Suggestions for beginning classes include: layout, tools and materials, beginning drawing, beginning calligraphy, Atlantian scribal policies, or other things you think might be useful to beginners. Suggestions for intermediate classes include: intermediate calligraphy, gold leaf, alternative materials, whitework, complex layout, paint shading, knotwork, and whatever else interests you. Suggestions for advanced classes include: grisaille, period pigments, figure drawing, non-Western illumination, foreign-looking English alphabets, layered whitework, paleography, period inks, making your own supplies such as brushes and prepared vellum, period bookmaking, and other things that strike your fancy. I would like to encourage anyone interested in teaching to e-mail me. If you are relatively new to the scribal arts, and have never taught a class before but think you might be able to teach a beginner class, this would be a good setting for it--you probably have a better memory than a longtime scribe of what questions and problems you had starting out. I'm also hoping to have enough advanced classes to interest the more jaded, sophisticated of our number ;-) This is a wonderful opportunity to learn new things, see and be seen, and I hope to see many of you there. If you know of poeple who are interested in learning more about the scribal arts and have never yet set pen or brush to paper, please encourage them to join us--I cannot imagine a more supportive atmosphere in which to learn how to get started. Please send your proposals to me, and let me know whether this is something hands-on or lecture, a brief course description, whether you will require a fee for supplies or handouts, and any contact information you wish to make available to your students. Please also let me know whether students will need to bring any supplies of their own and what experience you think would be useful or necessary to your class. I remain your obedient servant, Anastasia da Firenze Deputy Clerk of the Signet for New Scribes - -=*=-=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- Stacey Wahrman wahrman@wam.umd.edu If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V4 #6 ***************************