Hey, fellow SCAdians and avid crafters! Since I started learning about basket weaving last November I found out that as a craft it is very different than my calligraphy and illumination passion. I have to search more to find what I want or need, at least around Omaha, NE. There are no sections in large…
Hey everyone! Guess what? My journey into the world of basket-making hasn’t quite zoomed ahead as I hoped. But hey, I’m super excited about it anyway and want to share my progress with you. So, here’s the deal. First, as I posted last week, I snagged 6 Traditional Crafts kits, and they arrived on my…
Hey there, fellow scribes and artists of the Society for Creative Anachronism! Time to dust off those pigments and get back into the art of making paint! I know it’s been a while since we last delved into this colorful world, but fear not! I’ve got some exciting updates for you. So let’s get started….
Research is more than Wikipedia. These five links give you tips to finding more out of what you see and read.
Other scribes provide you designs to paint.
For your viewing pleasure, I give you my 10 most artistically inspiring illuminated manuscripts. Not all are lavish, but all encourage my creativity. I hope they do yours too. Book of Kells created c. 800, is a calligraphy masterwork and pinnacle of Insular illumination. Regarded as Ireland’s finest national treasure, its extravagance and decoration complexity combines traditional Christian motifs with…
I’m getting up to speed on making paint from pigments, again. Preparing to teach my paint making class in a few weeks. I found several on-line tutorials you may like. The first part of making paint is dispersing a powdered colorant in water. The second part is mixing in a binder. The binder in each…
In my previous article on arts and sciences documentation I responded to a common SCA non-writer’s lament. It presented several ways to show off creations without detailed writing. So what? What can you do if you want to write documentation? How do you learn to do it or improve at it? I won’t re-invent the…