It’s another new beginning today: the first day of school.
I had thought to make naive letter forms, and partially succeeded. I failed mostly in that I could not bring myself to abandon the Roman capital proportions, and thoughtlessly (without thought) kept the verticals more heavily weighted than the horizontals.
But I was more interested in making letters that were difficult, awkward to make, required thought, were not automatic. In this I succeeded: I worked to keep the pen angle at 90 degrees to the stroke, which required a constant change of pen angle to the writing line. Very awkward to do.
I’m not a calligrapher, Beth, but I do love checking in on your blog. This effort is lovely (and I love the quote!)
Thanks, riverlark. It’s all about sitting down in the chair every day. Yesterday wasn’t all that easy to do. But it’s always rewarding to have done it.