Why Do Colors Matter To Scribes?
Why should you care about color? You can ruin a good drawing by poor color choices or enhance a middling design by its careful use. ...
Illuminating Color Mixing
Iluminators were known to layer paints more than mix them. Yet there are written notes and illuminations that show they mixed colors too, especially later in the Middle Ages. Mixing colors makes its own problems. The more colors you combine, eventually ends with mud. Over-mixing also dulls the paint combination. Learn by doing: mix two gouache primary colors Which colors should you use […]
Why Buy More Scribal Paint Colors?
Scribes painting preprint scrolls. When I was painting preprint awards with scribes at a recent event, I was asked what colors I preferred. I had commented on colors I missed having because the paints provided for our use were Reeves gouache paint sets. I missed the colors I used at home. Gouache is an opaque watercolor used by professional artists to create illustrations […]
An Itinerant Scribe 