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To: alt.magick From: paulhume@comcast.net (Paul Hume) Subject: Re: Making Magickal Tools on a Budget Date: 12 Jan 2004 19:45:46 -0800 > > 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
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