[Regia-NA] Hellp

[danemitchell at comcast.net]

Hazel, if you get a moment, could you discuss not just paint colors, but perhaps more importantly to me, what kinds of paints might be correct? My understanding is there is very little understanding about paints used by the Anglo Saxons, the Norse, etc. Milk paint doesn't seem to my mind correct, but what is? What kinds of paints would the Norse have used to docorate and protect exposed woodwork, such as shields, longships, etc.? What could have taken that kind of abuse? 

One thing I took away from my college art history course was that the ancient world was very, very colorful, and those lovely white statues we see in museums were in fact polychromatic, maybe garishly so. 

Thanks, 

Dane 

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From: "Hazel Uzzell" <gythe at snrd.freeserve.co.uk> 

> Hello Peter, 
> If you send me your snail mail address off group, I will send you samples 
> of paint colours acceptable to Regia. I could scan them to you, but I don't 
> trust them to be recreated accurately. 
> Hazel Uzzell 
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