[Artemisia] mixing paint

[Laura Stumpp]

Really, Conchobhar, I thought you had heard about glair before now. Egg
whites are an old 'trick' some scribes insist on using. I don't bother with
it myself because I like my paint sans egg. Glair can have quite a smell to
it too. (Think rotten eggs.) If you want to learn more, you know how to find
me. I'm quite willing to teach. Think about it.

Osondrea

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Mike Bradley
<connor.mac.michil at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Elaine <carynvnk at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Greetings everyone:
> > Lady Aurora asked with trepidation:
> > Most important: How can I teach grade-schoolers to blend tempera paints
> from
> > the raw materials without getting caught in the middle of a gooey egg
> fight?
> > :P
> >
> > And Caryn replies:  Use gum arabic.
> >
> > Or make glair from the egg whites (egg yolks don't do well in manuscript
> > painting) and they cease to resemble eggs at all. You have to do this
> anyway
> > before you can use them for binder.
> >
> > Stickily yours,
> > Caryn
> >
>
> Wait...what?
>
> I'm supposed to use eggs when making scrolls?  No wonder I quit doing
> calligraphy and illumination; I just kept using paper, ink, and
> water/oil colors.  Maybe my work would have been better and more
> appreciated if I'd added some poultry amniotic fluid.
>
> (Or maybe it was getting a scroll that I spent 30+ hours on back from
> the Baron and Baroness ... with my name on it... but still... :) Or
> maybe it's because *every* scroll I do takes that long.  Not everyone
> can be that bi... dear lovely friend of mine, Mistress Osandrea, and
> whip out scrolls that make mortals weep, and heralds ask for something
> in a sans serif font that they can actually read, on a moments notice.
> ;) )
>
> But seriously, eggs?  On a scroll?
> .
> .
> .
> REALLY?
>
> My interest is piqued, Your Grace.  I may actually want to learn more.
>
> Couchbar (who ran around gloating the first time he got a scroll done
> by Osandrea, refused to touch his own DWS scroll because he knew how
> much work Bethany and Vilhelm had put into it, and after 15 years as
> court herald *still* hands off some scrolls to someone he trusts more
> to hold on to them...)
>
> I could list all the scribes that I hate*, but really, go to court,
> wait for the awards, the herald will list them off for me.
>
> *For some value of hate that equals "damn, that is *awesome* work".
>
> Nota bene: Tongue -> Cheek. I have nothing but the utmost respect and
> admiration for the scribes of Artemisia and their work. Annoying
> talented people every one.
>
> And seriously, eggs?
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