Calligraphy & more — the studio of Beth Lee, Bozeman, MT
Done as comparison for a client, so she could compare this with trial lettering lettering that was larger lettering and had more leading. (The larger lettering was a birthday letter to her daughter, not shown here for obvious reasons.) This is a 9″ x 12″ page of lettering with 2.2mm x-height and 8.8mm leading. Moon Palace ink, Strathmore 400 Drawing paper. The text is from Bruce Mau’s “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth“.
… on various papers with various mediums (or media, but people don’t put it that way).
This top image shows lettering done on Canson Mi-Tientes and Strathmore colored papers using McCaffery’s Ivory ink.
The image below shows lettering on a sheet of Strathmore Drawing paper using, in turn, McCaffery’s black ink, a mixture of Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache colors, that mixture + McCaffery’s Ivory ink, and that mixture + white gouache.
A William Henry Channing quotation, done earlier this year.
As usual, click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
Cycling through the Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache colors that make up the 6-color primary palette. Strathmore Drawing 400 paper, #5 Mitchell nib.
Some unfortunate flourishes here. I really lost my way at the end of line 8: I made the flourish and head down toward the waistline when I realized I hadn’t made the x-height portion of the “d”. Dive-bomb landing with no target. Oops. This is what happens when the mind wanders and the hand completely takes over.
Working out a single-case alphabet, cycling through a double-primary palette of 6 Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache colors, on a section of 100# Strathmore Drawing 400 with a #4 Mitchell nib.
This page of bookhand was done earlier this month.
After a great half-week with Ewan Clayton at The Summit, I’m back in my studio with daily lettering practice.
A quotation from Aldous Huxley’s novel, Those Barren Leaves. I picked up and read this book during a recent trip to Israel.
Folded ruling pen and C4 Speedball nib on a sheet of 2010 Diploma Parchment (marked “bad batch” — my newer batch is much better to write on) using Boku-Eki sumi bottle ink.
I’ve been busy on the book commission, but took a few minutes to do my envelope for the year-long 2011 Envelope Exchange. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with my Epson wide-format new inkjet printer, and I carried that experimentation over to this envelope. (As usual, click on the image to see it at a larger size.)
These are the layers on this #10 Strathmore Laid envelope: