Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!in.100proofnews.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!cyclone.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: paulhume@comcast.net (Paul Hume) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Making Magickal Tools on a Budget Date: 12 Jan 2004 19:45:46 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <7eb3360a.0401051728.3f822c3a@posting.google.com> <3FFDCECE.896C860@slip.net> <40022D5E.12529AB1@slip.net> <400317C5.3A283C14@slip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.48.63.213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1073965547 21472 127.0.0.1 (13 Jan 2004 03:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:364562 > > I found you can in fact thin the Liquitex liquid colors (not the tube > > colors) with water and medium, to maybe half the paint's original > > consistency, which is thin enough to let it flow off a Speedball nib, > > so I could use a pen for some of the calligraphy. > > Sounds like it would work to make ersatz "ink", but how well does a > Speedball nib work over an acrlyic painted hard surface? You have to be careful about beading but it worked quite well. Little strokes, same as a superfine brush. I sand surfaces quite smooth, then use gesso cut 1/3 to 1/2 with water, consistency of milk. Thin coat, let dry, sand with fine sandpaper, second coat, sand even lighter (extra fine paper). Same as prep for a super smooth surface on wood or masonite panelling for "regular" acrylic painting, according to one of my art textbooks. > > (Alas, it had an encounter with a cat on the > > altar one day, and though it was tough, didn't survive). > > Cat's on the altar... grrrr... my Wiccan friends assure me that cats are > inherently exempt from all restrictions as to "breaking the circle" and > the like, but I do get annoyed when my cat tracks specks of kitty litter > across my altar's black tablecloth. > Depends on the cat and the circumstances. At the time my temple was my living room in the townhouse I was renting at the time (OTO inits, Mass, and personal work... and occasionally using it as a living room to boot (g)). So no way to keep Persephone, the cat at the time, out. She'd been sitting in on my rituals for over a decade at that point, but this time wanted to see what I was doing more closely than usual. Boaz and Jachin, the two cats of the Temple of Solomon and the present Hume moggies, are more amenable when I close the door of the present temple room, though also tend to just settle down and watch if in the space. Paul