Looking back, I see that much of my daily lettering has been some form of bookhand, fairly small. Even writing small, there is plenty of opportunity for variation. But I’m going to go big for awhile, and see what happens.
Sometimes it’s just fun to write
… for the tactile pleasure of it. Leftover watercolors with a big ole Speedball C nib, on Arches Text Wove.
The attentive eye
“To the attentive eye,
each moment of the year
has its own beauty,
and in the same field,
it beholds, every hour,
a picture which was never seen before,
and which shall never be seen again.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I matted and framed (11″ x 14″) this piece to today for the calligraphy exhibit at Rocky Mountain College’s The Ryniker-Morrison Gallery in Billings, MT.
The watercolor lettering was initially done with a disc-ended Brause Ornament nib – similar to a Speedball “B” series nib – and then the rough edges and finials tidied square with a bowl-pointed school nib. All on St. Armand handmade watercolor paper, a luxuriously felty, bumpy surface.
Daily lettering
It’s a little hard to focus these days, but I’m still trying to get a page of lettering done each day.
Some trial lettering for our guild project
Christmas card 2016
I didn’t send out very many Christmas cards — really, just to family.
We cannot live only for ourselves …
Daily lettering
Daily lettering – brush, again
Perhaps I should quit telling myself that I don’t do brush lettering. Maybe I can amend it to this: I don’t do traditional brush lettering. Or perhaps: My brush lettering is not schooled. I do enjoy this, whatever it is.
Stimudent lettering
I had a good time showing our local guild members how to construct a Stimudent “nib”. I made this letter, among others, at the meeting today.