Calligraphy & more — the studio of Beth Lee, Bozeman, MT
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Lettering on tricot nylon/ spandex — not the easiest substrate — with Zig markers: scroll, brush, and Writers. No planning, because it’s for a costume party this evening. And I had to come up with the content. Family commissions are often the most difficult of all.
(The asterisk is a small tribute to Kurt Vonnegut.)
With all the chaos here, I had gotten behind in my exchange envelope commitments. Not anymore. I’m all caught up … until July 1. In keeping with these hard economic times, the theme for these is Frugality. Recycled envelopes, a dried-up Zig calligraphy marker, and a re-purposed Zig Millennium mark cut to a chisel edge with an X-acto blade.
The envelopes frame a bit of doodling. I don’t know what to do with it, so it just sits on the table reproaching me for my indecisiveness.
As usual, click on the image to get a closer look.
My 11-year-old niece Ashley is visiting for a short week of art camp. Yesterday we got out all the Zig markers — and I’ve got a slew of ’em: writers, calligraphy, brush-and-scroll — and spent half the day playing around with them. Here’s my experiment, on Fabriano cold-pressed watercolor paper. The bamboo comes out of a booklet, Color Layering System, by Suzy Ratto. The rather strange column of lettering is based on one of Hans Joachim Burgert’s pieces.