From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #24 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, January 31 1998 Volume 01 : Number 024 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: beginner questions--back to gouache again!!! Re: [scribes]: Styluses Re: re: [scribes]: Notes from Scribal Gathering... [scribes]: Re: beginner questions--back to gouache again!!! [scribes]: correction [scribes]: watercolor v. gouache ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 31 Jan 98 09:48:06 -0800 From: Leslie.Schweitzer@hubert.rain.com (Leslie Schweitzer) Subject: Re: [scribes]: beginner questions--back to gouache again!!! ra> >okay, so i followed all the traffic on gouache and got excited and ra> went ra> >shopping for some....all i found was winsor newton watercolors, not ra> w/n ra> >gouache...one of the posts seemed to indicate that gouache was ra> watercolor ra> >mixed with gum arabic-->i have gum arabic, do i just mix it (in what ra> >proportions?) with the watercolor paint? or was the store i was at ra> just ra> >deficient (highly likely, it was Michael's craft center, not a ra> *real* art ra> >supply store)? While you can, as Ranthulfr suggests, mess around with adding gum arabic to watercolors, or ox gall, seems to me that if you don't know where to buy the (perfectly plesant to use) premixed Windsor-Newton gouache, finding gum arabic and ox gall will be equally tricky at that Michael's. I would suggest that unless you feel very comfortable messing around with adulterating paints (with substances other than water) you expand your search and find the gouache. Most good art stores carry gouache, and Windsor-Newton Gouache at that, although one or two of the ones I've been using are showing a disconcerting way of providing a limited palette and making you order certain colors from the 'main store.' This is fine if you know what colors you wnt, but if you want to browse, it's best if you find a good store with a good selection. Pretty much any University art store/bookstore containing art supplies will have some decent selection of Gouache. There is also Daniel Smith, a mail order company out of Seattle which may have a storefront (although I don't knwo if it does.) I also seem to recall daniel Smith has decent prices for Gouaches. They are expensive paints and finding some place with good prices is valuable. I know from your previous post you are in An Tir, if you want to write me privately and tell me where you are I can probably point you to some known stores (at least, in some parts of the I5 corridor.) Zenobia Naphtali/Leslie Schweitzer Dragon's Mist/Tualatin OR - --- QuickBBS 2.849 GoldBase ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 98 09:36:04 -0800 From: Leslie.Schweitzer@hubert.rain.com (Leslie Schweitzer) Subject: Re: [scribes]: Styluses I have a jeweler friend who has made himself a pair of wax tablets in a wood case, and uses them to make notes about commissions and orders at events before he can transfer them into his book. I will have to ask him about the erasing process. Zenobia Naphtali - --- QuickBBS 2.849 GoldBase ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 98 09:54:06 -0800 From: Leslie.Schweitzer@hubert.rain.com (Leslie Schweitzer) Subject: Re: re: [scribes]: Notes from Scribal Gathering... The autocrat for Scribes' Gathering in An Tir on Feb 21 is Tamlyn, reachable at tamlyn@gte.net Perhaps she will work something out allowing someone to 'order' packets of notes from the Gathering. I know from some experience that taking orders for, and producing packets of "all the handouts from " isn't a trivial task. You have to run around on the day, make sure you have a handout from each of the teachers to use at the master, and then make up the packets and mail them, usually for what comes out to be a few dollar cost per packet of photocopying and mailing. Perhaps she can get the masters (making sure all the teachers know they have to give her a set), find out how much money it will take to mail out the packets and repro them, and then take orders? Zenobia Naphtali/Leslie Schweitzer Dragon's Mist/Tualatin OR - --- QuickBBS 2.849 GoldBase ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:01:29 -0800 From: guineth@juno.com (Emily SD Thompson) Subject: [scribes]: Re: beginner questions--back to gouache again!!! You are right, Michael's is not the best place to find many of the things we SCA scribes like to use. Where do you live, dear? If we know your area, perhaps someone reasonably local can suggest a place to go. If all else fails, there are a number of lovely catalogs. Sister Guineth the White Dragons Mist, An Tir mka Emily Thompson Hillsboro, Oregon guineth@juno.com _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:02:04 -0500 From: Teri Nava-Vaughn Subject: [scribes]: correction >differs That should have been "defers"-- That's what I get for not proofing my text. C o'Stow ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 04:50:39 +0000 From: gevehard@juno.com (Garret C Bitker) Subject: [scribes]: watercolor v. gouache !! Opinion Alert !! Forgive my impertinence but I have been led to believe that watercolors are an acceptable period paint, is this not true? I currently prefer watercolor to gouache for most of my scroll projects, 1. it's cheaper 2. it's much easier to find( our Michaels has gum arabic and oxgall but no gouaches) 3. I have tried both side by side and can find little difference unless painting a large area. Granted, I live in Nowhere USA but I looked in Mpls. St.Paul metro area at a Dick Blick store and still could not find gold gouache, and Pendragon still hasn't sent me a catalog. I like to use my W&N watercolors, and not afraid to say it! The nearest Laurel ( in any subject is over 150 miles away) and I don't know if their is one in C&I in all of Northshield, so I'm really happy this list is around so I have a place to ask questions and actually get them answered. Thanks Gevehard von Baden Middle, Northshield, Inner Sea _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #24 ****************************