From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V4 #15 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, October 18 2000 Volume 04 : Number 015 ======================================================================== 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]: Changing styles, Part II ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:33:42 -0400 From: "Sally Burnell" Subject: [scribes]: Changing styles, Part II Well, that Northern French scroll I mentioned earlier in the week is now done, and the colour photocopy from the neighbourhood Kinko's has been made and put into my portfolio. Boy, even though this one wasn't one of my more elaborate scrolls, still, it was a toughy from the get-go. I struggled with the design motif - it was a folio from the book "Painted Prayers" by Roger S. Wieck that I particularly liked - and then had a bear of a time painting it because I decided to see if I could get as close to the actual period colours as possible, which meant blending paints. I kept running out of the one colour that I was using and had to make new batches, and prayed all along that I could exactly replicate the colour as I had originally made it. Quite fortunately, I was successful in that struggle. For some reason, the paints kept fighting me. Too wet, too dry, too gloppy - I just could not seem to get a nice comfortable consistency. The white paint was the worst. It kept drying up in my palette and then I would go to re-wet it and it would be too wet. I just could not seem to get it to behave. It did that a few weeks ago when I was doing a scroll for Coronation. I had to repaint sections of whitework several times because I was not satisfied with how it looked. All in all, this thing was really tough, but I think I needed this challenge. I feel, admittedly, a bit more daring to start trying other styles now that I know that I can do something different and still have it come out OK. While this isn't my best scroll that I have ever done, it certainly isn't my worst. As I see it, at the very least, I have something different now in my portfolio that shows that I can do something a bit out of my normal style and still have it come off OK. So if this has served any useful purpose, it has increased my confidence in trying to break out of my stylistic norms and try new things. And that is always a good thing. Saradwen Midrealm =================================================================== 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 #15 ****************************