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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Baroness Curstaidh, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I thank you for giving me
the chance to learn the art of scrolls. As a result I am enjoying a new
still and trying to improve on it. It has given me much joy. In high school, I
had four years of art and had missed being able to paint. I've enjoyed
getting to know you and many other people while we sat and did charter
paintings. Now my Barony members have been enjoying painting scrolls and have
almost finished allot of them. Lady Selena, of the woods, had never painted one
before and it turns out that she and her daughter are very good at painting. If
you had not given us this chance to paint a printed charter. Then we may not
have ever tapped into this skill. If we say that fighters can't go on the
field unless they are really good. Now I would understand, if the scrolls were
for the Laurel and Pelican, Baron and Baroness, or Count and Countess scrolls
level. Then I could see the need for special scrolls. Plus I would think
that there would be a shortage of scrolls if we had to wait for the Book of
Hours quality. I would love to be able to paint at that level. But I hope
that people of with lesser talents and skills still have a chance to
paint and develop a love for a new skill. Then one day they may be painting the
more beautiful scrolls. After all we are in the SCA to have fun and learn a fun
hobby. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for all your teachings and the Brownies
too!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope I didn't offend anyone it was not meant to
do so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lady Marguerite Seneschal for Barony
Bordermarch </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:lalemons@flash.net" title=lalemons@flash.net>Lee Lemons</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG"
title=ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG>Ansteorra</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 02, 1999 11:13
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: ANST - scrolls</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Greetings One and All!
<P>So, am I hearing this correctly - the push now is towards all original work
and / or just the "written word", no illumination, etc.? Should I be
telling the Sable Scroll not to worry anymore about those pesky painted
charters, but that he needs to just write out charters for every single
recipient, and / or find other calligraphers to help, too? So all those
paints I just bought I can use for painting my cat's claws? ; D
<P>Personally, I like to paint the charters, a lot, actually. Not having
much of an artistic touch, as in, "What, me create an original?", I enjoy
painting within the lines! I can't even begin to think what I would have
been doing these past seven years if I hadn't had the pre-printed charters to
paint, a service to the Kingdom I have totally enjoyed. I probably would have
kept up with my rapier fighting, perhaps. And I would never have ever
even considered picking up a paint brush or a calligraphy pen. That part
of my SCA life would never have existed.
<P>Moreover, I'm reminded of all the other people I've meet and have "painted"
with, people who have been told they didn't have any artistic ability, or
never encouraged in their artistic leanings, yada yada yada, like myself in
high school, who sat down with a pre-printed charter infront of them and began
to do something they had never even conceived of doing before - painting
someone's award charter. Could we not refer to this as part of the
CREATIVE part of the S<B><U>C</U></B>A Dream? And for those who
want the "real" thing, could they not commission someone to create it for
them, a scribe who enjoys the original artwork / calligraphy text of
scrolls? Along with air-conditioning and all the other little"creative
anachronistic" touches, could we not have our cake and icing too?
Especially if they were chocolate....! ; )
<P>Having been Sable Scroll a few times, I can't even imagine doing originals,
coordinating it, getting them done in a timely fashion, and so on, for a
Kingdom this large, with the amount of award charters going out. The peerage
scrolls are done by commission, or arrangement, between the recipient and
scribe here, because we don't have charters for them. It is hard enough
to get good, solid, correctly painted award charters for the Crown to use as
it is, without even taking into consideration the peerage scrolls and trying
to find scribes to do them!
<P>I respectfully submit that all those who want us to change what we are
doing, in regards to award charters, to come forth, not only with your ideas,
but with yourself as a volunteer to help get it off the ground. If the
idea is worthy enough to change our Kingdom's ways, you really need to be able
to help it be seen through the idea stage to the actual working stage.
<P>I have no problem at all with changes if the populace and Crown want them -
changes can be positive, invigorating, and great for personal as well as
Kingdom growth. But being able to throw out ideas is easy, to help those
ideas grow and take solid root is something different.
<P>Think about it. Talk about it. If change is needed, let's get
it out in the light and discussed reasonably, rationally, and logically.
If you have an idea, present it and HOW you plan to help it become a
reality. That is how good changes come about - conceive, plan, and
implement. So go to it, and let the Crown and myself know!
<P>Curstaidh Magorlick <BR>Star Signet </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>