never too late for a new hobby?
Apr. 19th, 2019 03:29 pmIn my 37ish years in the SCA I had never tried illumination. However, staying at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aryanhwy seems to have rubbed off on me. Yesterday, while she worked on a scroll she is doing, I made an attempt at copying a letter onto a scrap of parchment:
Today, while she and Gwen went out to a Fun Fair, I stayed home and tried adapting the same design motif into a different letter (with the extra goal of this time not letting the letter grow right up to the edge of the parchment).
It may be a good thing that I am heading on to Blackpool tomorrow--her bag of scrap parchment is only so big, I wouldn't want to use it all upon beginner's attempts. Though these won't go to waste. She tells me that she will turn them in to the scribes to have calligraphy added. I begin to see why our scribes do so much. It isn't just that the people of Drachenwald are doing so much good stuff that the Crown wishes to reward them, but the drawing and painting turns out to be fun, too...
aryanhwy seems to have rubbed off on me. Yesterday, while she worked on a scroll she is doing, I made an attempt at copying a letter onto a scrap of parchment:Today, while she and Gwen went out to a Fun Fair, I stayed home and tried adapting the same design motif into a different letter (with the extra goal of this time not letting the letter grow right up to the edge of the parchment).
It may be a good thing that I am heading on to Blackpool tomorrow--her bag of scrap parchment is only so big, I wouldn't want to use it all upon beginner's attempts. Though these won't go to waste. She tells me that she will turn them in to the scribes to have calligraphy added. I begin to see why our scribes do so much. It isn't just that the people of Drachenwald are doing so much good stuff that the Crown wishes to reward them, but the drawing and painting turns out to be fun, too...
