{"id":2985,"date":"2020-05-26T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:24:40","slug":"built-up-caps-week-2-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/26\/built-up-caps-week-2-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Built Up Caps – week 2…a"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Built Up Caps – practice for the first part of week 2. Pencil for 4 lines and 005 ZIG Millennium marker for 4 lines. Strathmore Drawing 400 heavyweight, 18 in x 12 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What a engrossing time I’m having with these built-up caps. What an eloquent, careful, and kind teacher Yves is! I am enjoying reading his oh-so-encouraging yet exacting critiques of all the work that has been posted for his “red arrows”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I wrote in my Instagram post, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a slo-mo party in my studio. This page took me three days to do, and it was mesmerizing. A fellow student has called it something like “a festival of emotions”. That’s right. The satisfaction of a well made curve, the horror as one’s seemingly disembodied hand strays irrevocably out of the carefully planned width of a stroke, the shock when one realizes that 2 lines of sub-par lettering have eaten up 2 hours of the day. I can’t wait to do more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I realize this was a fairly negative view of the experience in its detail, so I’ll add this here: Besides the satisfaction of a well-made curve, there is also the pleasurable process of building up these elegant arboriform waisted strokes, the absorbing interest in sculpting the interior spaces, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned for week 2b, when we add the broad-edge nib and gouache to the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a engrossing time I’m having with these built-up caps. What an eloquent, careful, and kind teacher Yves is! I am enjoying reading his oh-so-encouraging yet exacting critiques of all the work that has been posted for his “red arrows”. As I wrote in my Instagram post, It’s a slo-mo party in my studio. This … <\/p>\n

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