EFNIR: Jinhao Bluish Violet

January 20

24 minutes ago, chromantic said:

the name seems somewhat misleading

Yeah, that's what I thought. Maybe they're thinking: "Violet = very red purple", "Bluish Violet = slightly less red purple"... :unsure: At least they didn't call it "Exotic Flower Petals Floating in Water in a Shallow Bowl" - that wouldn't have fit on my review page...

January 21

17 hours ago, InesF said:

Oh, that's a quite interesting procedure! I never considered saving the original drawing and experimenting with different versions of washes.

Thank you for sharing your experience! 👍

Well, that's not quite how it works. The photocopies of the artwork are colored in with Crayola markers (they need to have the original B&W one to scan in, and at least one color one to scan in, partly for record keeping of the submissions and partly so people can research them to make sure that they don't conflict with something someone already has registered -- it's heraldry for people to use in the SCA, and you don't want to have something that is too much like famous person/family's (real world) heraldry, or a flag for a country.

For me playing with the different black inks to see what worked in the often hot and humid weather at the big camping event was just doing drawings on scrap paper and noting what the ink was. Normally drawings are done in pencil, checked over by a "senior level" person to make sure the artwork matches the "blazon" (the description using the the correct heraldic terms) and then the pencil drawing is inked using black fine-line Uniball markers (I'm responsible for their use, BTW, rather than the cheapie Pilot rollerballs that tended to be smudgy) and then the pencil marks are erased. We use Crayola markers for the photocopies to color them in, because the basic colors are more or less "heraldic" tinctures: bright yellow, a medium green, a medium blue, a "true" red, and a pretty solid black to represent, respectively, "Or" (gold), "Vert", "Azure", "Gules" and "Sable", and with uncolored parts remaining white for "Argent" (silver).

The original drawing remains black and white, in case there is some sort of problem. And for doing the research to make sure it's both correctly drawn and tinctured for what the "client" wants, and to make sure there isn't a potential conflict, both the black & white and one colored in drawing are scanned in for the record (before it's officially approved) for people in different areas to double check to make sure the blazon (description) is right as well as whether the submission is sufficiently different from anything else to make it unique and to represent the person who submitted it. I'm actually missing the regional online decision meeting because I can't get the software to load on my laptop for electronic meetings (in the past I had to use my husband's work computer, but he just woke up a few minutes ago from taking a nap and I do NOT know how to use anything that's not an Apple system).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

January 21

9 hours ago, LizEF said:

Yeah, that's what I thought. Maybe they're thinking: "Violet = very red purple", "Bluish Violet = slightly less red purple"... At least they didn't call it "Exotic Flower Petals Floating in Water in a Shallow Bowl" - that wouldn't have fit on my review page...

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