{"id":1137,"date":"2015-04-15T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:00:01","slug":"daily-lettering-preparation-for-the-big-sky-scribes-spring-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/daily-lettering-preparation-for-the-big-sky-scribes-spring-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily lettering: preparation for the Big Sky Scribes spring workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1138\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1138\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/daily-lettering-preparation-for-the-big-sky-scribes-spring-workshop\/2015-04-15-bookhand\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,668\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-04-15-bookhand\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Bookhand practice &amp;#8211; day 1&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand-1024x570.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"Bookhand practice - day 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-15-bookhand.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bookhand practice &#8211; day 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/tag\/blackletter\/\">blackletter work<\/a> recently, and I&#8217;ve been doing some Hebrew lettering. (This latter is more a labor of love than of skill, so I doubt you&#8217;ll be seeing any of it here.)<\/p>\n<p>But the spring workshop sponsored by the Big Sky Scribes guild is coming up soon. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the workshop, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christopherhaanes.com\/\">Christopher Haanes<\/a> will be teaching. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amityparks.com\/\">Amity Parks<\/a>\u00a0posted a practice sheet that she had just completed in preparation for the workshop and I realized hey, I need\u00a0to\u00a0be getting ready too! After today&#8217;s daily lettering session, picture here, it&#8217;s even\u00a0<em>more<\/em> clear that hey, I need to be getting ready!<\/p>\n<p>This is Moon Palace sumi ink, a Mitchell #2.5 nib, and Strathmore Drawing 400 heavyweight paper.\u00a0Smartphone photo in poor light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some blackletter work recently, and I&#8217;ve been doing some Hebrew lettering. (This latter is more a labor of love than of skill, so I doubt you&#8217;ll be seeing any of it here.) But the spring workshop sponsored by the Big Sky Scribes guild is coming up soon. I&#8217;m really looking forward to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/daily-lettering-preparation-for-the-big-sky-scribes-spring-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daily lettering: preparation for the Big Sky Scribes spring workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,98,99],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering","tag-2015-daily-lettering","tag-bookhand","tag-foundational"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-il","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}