[Scriptoris] Scriptoris Digest, Vol 63, Issue 4

[susan calafrancesco]

Viviana and I are already discussing a class that I will be teaching in 
the near future in your area. We can get a group together and mix up 
some of those pigments for both the illuminators and painters. Maybe 
your fall event. ; )

Oksana



On 7/20/11 2:16 PM, Jennifer Baker wrote:
> Oksana,
>
> I'm in Bryn  Gwlad  - NW Austin.
>
> Alicia
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:31:25 -0500
>> From: susan calafrancesco<scalafrancesco at drakkar.org>
>> To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."
>> <scriptoris at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] Natural pigments question
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>>     Refresh my memory, where are you located? I know you are or were in
>> the Southern region, while I was Southern Regional Scribe.
>>     I have quite a lot of experience with period pigments. The same kind
>> of earth pigments that Lord Lemoine de Gascone's uses. I've gotten them
>> really cheap, already ground and the price is way cheaper than any of
>> those Windsor-Newton gauches. You only use a very small amount of the
>> earth and you mix them up as needed. In all of my commissioned scrolls I
>> have used those earth pigments. So, don't think that earth pigments are
>> expensive, they are not. In fact, if I were judging a piece and the
>> artist says that "I used gauche, because it was cheaper than period
>> pigments", I would deduct points, for not doing the research. Granted
>> there are a few, and I mean very few pigments which are expensive, but
>> 99.8% of the earth pigments are cheaper than any gauche.
>> With that said, if you are close enough to me I would be happy to show
>> you how to mix and use the earth pigments for illuminations as well as
>> icon (egg tempera) painting. I use the same earth pigments for both,
>> just change the binder.
>>
>> Oksana Goncharova
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