Post date: Aug 27, 2021 10:11:20 PM
Welcome to the premier edition of CSL Tidings!
Unto the scribal and interested populous does Mistress Robin of Thornwood, Guild Chronicler, send Greetings and Salutations!
Editorial
Welcome to the premier edition of CSL Tidings*, the newsletter of the West Kingdom Company of Scriveners and Limners, (informally known as The Company). CSL Tidings is a monthly publication of news, opinions, announcements, and any other material of interest to the artistic and scribal community. All readers are invited to submit articles, letters, graphics, and any intelligence about pertinent opportunities, events, or activities. We welcome your suggestions for participation, enrichment, and outreach. CSL Tidings will contain features both ongoing and periodical and we heartily encourage your submissions, either regular, occasional, or single.
We hope to be an organ of intercommunication and sharing between our far-flung scribes, to open and maintain channels of engagement and facilitate mutual connection and support.
Our diverse fellowship is rich, dynamic, vibrant, and all too often isolated, particularly in the wake of Covid-19. CSL Tidings is here to help build and strengthen our association through the timely exchange of news, views, and knowledge.
As we now look forward to increased personal interaction and gathering, the Guild plans to make our presence known in intriguing and picturesque ways. We invite and welcome colleagues both old and new to join in participating in diverse scribal and pictorial activities. The Company needs your talents, skills, ideas, and suggestions and CSL Tidings is here to help spread the word and image!
*From Middle English ‘tithinge’, news, information, intelligence. Also, the collective noun describing a gathering of Magpies.
Guild Insignia
The Company now has a Device!
Featured henceforth on banners, business cards, and other Guild-related items will be a Rampant Cosalot on a white field, bearing a brush and a pen, surrounded by three tressures in the primary colors (yellow, blue, and red) and a black bordure.
For those unfamiliar with the Cosalot, it is a beast inhabiting Pigmentistan and the Isles d’ Encrer. Said by some to be mythical, its existence is staunchly defended by the faithful. It strongly resembles an Ocelot, (which was named after it), though with markings and claws in the primaries and black.
The Company is proud to feature this noble animal as our insignia and hopes all will come to accept and respect it as we do.
Coming Forth at Crown
At long last, we may again gather and bask merrily in one another’s company as we honor our Splendid King and Queen and salute Their prospective Heirs.
At this joyous occasion of Fall Crown, the Company will present a welcoming presence where we seek to engage with the populous and revel in the Scribal Arts. To this end, the Company is hosting a Welcome Back celebration. Come meet our officers and participate in our drawing.
The Company looks forward to making new friends, reconnecting with old ones, and promoting our passion for the arts of painting and calligraphy in new and diverse ways.
Come join us at the site of the rampant Cosalot!
Reviews
Colleagues! Please send Tidings pertinent book, video, film, and exhibit reviews of interest to artists and calligraphers. It is always informative to hear of something new, or something older that we have missed. Your old favorite may be brand new to some of us.
The Power of Limits, Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
by Gyorgy Doczi, Shamble Press
A handsome and lucid book that explores the harmonies relationships of natural and human-built structures. Through diagrams, illustrations, and text, Mr. Doczi discusses our association with the various reoccurring patterns of living things that resonate deeply in the human mind. While not, strictly speaking, devoted to our Period, The Power of Limits deals with The Golden Section, the Fibonacci Sequence, and other visual philosophies of great interest to Medieval artists.
The Hours of Jeanne D’Evereux, Jean Pucelle
This little jewel of a book, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a tour de force of High Gothic painting, by the hand of the amazing Jean Pucelle (active 1325). The volume, at 3.5 x 5.5, is yet larger than the original, which measures a diminutive 2.25 x 3.5. The liveliness and elegance of the illustrations, done mostly in grisaille, with limited color in the larger illustrations, are truly breathtaking and contain some of the earliest uses of coherent perspective. What little is known of the artist is detailed in a short but informative introduction, together with further discussion of the book’s provenance and patrons. While seemingly not available through the Metropolitan, it is, online, from many second-hand venues.
Cavalier Cat (or Cosalot?) Causes Calligraphic Catastrophe!
