Watercolor detail from a handmade book I’m working on. Quote done with leftover watercolor from the book. The lettering lost a lot in the tweaking process, but I don’t have time to go back and fix it.
Oscar Wilde on Art
This quotations was inspired by the image displayed with Alex Savakis’ interview with Martha Ericson.
The lettering looked like such fun, I channeled my inner 8-year-old and used a multi-colored gel pen. Halfway through I wished was writing on black paper, and later — voila! through the miracle of Photoshop — I had been.
Tolkien on Love of Learning
In honor of Tolkien Week.
Baudelaire on Design
This is a typeface I designed a couple of years ago. It was designed very badly, I might add — so badly, in fact, that I pretty much had to kern every single pair of letters to get it to look halfway decent. And I missed kerning the BJE in “subject”, evidently.
Here is a scan of the Zig-markered original lettering that I used to make the typeface. Here’s the typographic poster I blogged originally, using this typeface when it was just completed.
I don’t think Baudelaire would approve this interpretation of his words 🙂
Santayana on Life
Arthur Balfour on Religion
click the image to get a closer view
Herman Hesse on Beginnings
For my Jewish friends in honor of Rosh Hoshanah, which begins this evening.
I’m experimenting with square pastels as a broad-edge writing instrument.
Elbert Hubbard on Discourse
Imagination is more important than knowledge … the rest of the quotation
Francis Bacon (the Sir) quotation
