five thousand shades of blue
Monday, December 04, 2000
With all else I have had to do, I find myself needing to take a break and do some painting. I have been enjoying painting award scrolls for
my SCA group. The 'lower level' awards are simply photocopies (onto nice paper) and then individually hand painted using gouache (which, if memory serves, is a watercolor-like paint that has been opaqued with... white acrylic or white tempera, I can't remember exactly). There are several different master templates that are used to make the scrolls -- the creativity comes in painting them uniquely (or, at least, as uniquely as possible). Scrapbooking has been a boon to this kind of art, because now archival-quality papers, paints and even those gel-pens (which are also archival and very useful for doing detail work) are so much more readily available.
My point is, I did two of these this weekend. I was quite pleased with the results. One of these days I'll actually do a page for my SCA persona, and display examples of the scribal work I've done.
is
this just not enough…?
