{"id":2808,"date":"2019-07-10T08:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:06:59","slug":"starting-new-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/starting-new-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting new work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We calligraphers have <em>so many<\/em> choices! Size, compression, letter spacing, slant, line spacing, ascender\/descender length, color, weight, shape, serif, tool, paper, writing fluid \u2014 the list goes on and on. Sometimes I begin by lettering a line in as many ways occur to me within the parameters of the page size. It can be a way in to a new project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" data-attachment-id=\"2812\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/starting-new-work\/20190708_182045-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,996\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-N950U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1562610044&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20190708_182045\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jump-starting the design process for a new piece. Walnut ink with 1mm Brause nib on a scrap of watercolor paper about 5 in x 7 in. First line of  George Marion McClellan&amp;#8217;s poem, &amp;#8220;A September Night&amp;#8221;. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-300x146.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-1024x498.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_182045.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Jump-starting the design process for a new piece. Walnut ink with 1mm Brause nib on a scrap of watercolor paper about 5 in x 7 in. First line of  George Marion McClellan&#8217;s poem, &#8220;A September Night&#8221;. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We calligraphers have so many choices! Size, compression, letter spacing, slant, line spacing, ascender\/descender length, color, weight, shape, serif, tool, paper, writing fluid \u2014 the list goes on and on. Sometimes I begin by lettering a line in as many ways occur to me within the parameters of the page size. It can be a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/starting-new-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting new work&#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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Ji","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}