Tuesday, May 03, 2005
It's shield time.....
Trying to figure out this whole gouache and tempera paint thing Sir Galan was telling me about for painting lasting shields. It has been forever and a day since he cut out the shield blank for me, and about that long since he gave me the instructions on what to do with it.....
As I recall (and he and I spoke briefly at Dreamstone...) he said to put down 3 or 4 coats of gouache (however you spell it), sanding in between each coat, to get a very smooth surface to paint on. Then, tempera paints to do the design, then several coats of varnish. He also told me about using rawhide dog bones rather than hose to do the edge. He has a great suspension system, which again if I am recalling correctly, is also period.
Of course, I have to decide on what to paint on the shield. I have registered Arms (registered in 1982 Gules, on a pale embattled between in chief an Irish harp and a Scottish thistle argent, in base a horse's head couped gules) but it is not just un-registerable today, it is totally un-period for my evolving persona, and my spiff new armor.
Am kind of leaning toward something simply geometric. I really need to do some research on what kind of painting would be appropriate for Isle of Lewis in approximately 1005 (I think that is where I am going to settle my persona there). There is another great group of folks- those of the Norse list- that are a wealth of knowledge. I think I will go ask there. ;p
As I recall (and he and I spoke briefly at Dreamstone...) he said to put down 3 or 4 coats of gouache (however you spell it), sanding in between each coat, to get a very smooth surface to paint on. Then, tempera paints to do the design, then several coats of varnish. He also told me about using rawhide dog bones rather than hose to do the edge. He has a great suspension system, which again if I am recalling correctly, is also period.
Of course, I have to decide on what to paint on the shield. I have registered Arms (registered in 1982 Gules, on a pale embattled between in chief an Irish harp and a Scottish thistle argent, in base a horse's head couped gules) but it is not just un-registerable today, it is totally un-period for my evolving persona, and my spiff new armor.
Am kind of leaning toward something simply geometric. I really need to do some research on what kind of painting would be appropriate for Isle of Lewis in approximately 1005 (I think that is where I am going to settle my persona there). There is another great group of folks- those of the Norse list- that are a wealth of knowledge. I think I will go ask there. ;p
