[Scriptoris] Natural pigments question

[Elaine]

Something else------ some paints/ pigments are toxic. Check out what  
you are using. My mother's friend, an oil painter, spent 6 months in  
the hospital because she got some in her mouth by holding that extra  
brush in her teeth.

YIS,
HL Lete

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On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Jennifer Baker wrote:

> 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
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