[Scriptoris] Natural pigments question

[Jennifer Baker]

Thank you everyone, for your advice and suggestions.

I'm not completely new to charter and scroll painting, but I have always 
been a bit intimidated by the idea of using period pigments.  My usual 
choice of paints is Winsor-Newton gouche.  Since I got the natural 
pigment samples for free, some of the intimidation factor was negated, 
but not all, by any means.

I am hoping to make it to the Symposium, if finances allow.  I'm not 
sure how helpful
Lord Lemoine de Gascone's class will be for me, as I believe it centers 
on actually creating the pigments from dirt - at least if what I have 
seen from other sources is correct.

I already have catalogues from John Neal books (and have been 
considering getting some pergamenata from them for experimenting with) 
and Natural Pigments (www.naturalpigments.com) .

At the moment, finances play a large part in what materials I'm using.  
If I'm going to use period pigments, I'd just as soon use period 
techniques as well, but for now, experimentation in small doses is all I 
can afford to do.

I wish I could sit down with someone on a regular basis and learn from 
them, as that's how I learn best, but time, location, and once again 
finances, are currently making that difficult at best.  It doesn't help 
that I don't really know any scribes outside my barony for the same 
reasons.

In Service,
Alicia