{"id":2610,"date":"2018-04-30T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:09:41","slug":"seattletters-envelope-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/seattletters-envelope-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattletters – envelope contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Made for John Neal Books envelope contest \u2014 gouache+sumi mixture and gouache mixture; Speedball “B” nib and a flexible pointed nib clipped to a tiny broad edge; envelope made from 80# Strathmore 400 Drawing paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here’s my submission to the envelope contest<\/a> that John Neal Books hosted in association with Seattletters.  The deadline was April 20. The gray lettering is a post I read in a calligraphy group on social media. I surrounded it with text from an 1888 article by A. J. Scarborough which had been posted in 2000 to the Cyberscribes discussion list.  I like the contrast in approaches \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I penciled baseline guidelines 2mm apart for the small lettering, making the x-height about 1mm. I clipped a pointed nib (a blue Esterbrook of some sort, I think) to make a tiny broad-edge nib. Seattleletters address is #5 Mitchell nib, I think.<\/p>\n

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After all that work, I couldn’t bear to send it through the US Mail unprotected, so I made another envelope, just \u00bc” larger in each direction, to house the submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Here’s my submission to the envelope contest that John Neal Books hosted in association with Seattletters.  The deadline was April 20. The gray lettering is a post I read in a calligraphy group on social media. I surrounded it with text from an 1888 article by A. J. Scarborough which had been posted in 2000 … <\/p>\n

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