{"id":2997,"date":"2020-06-14T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2020-06-14T14:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:09:47","slug":"more-work-in-the-built-up-capitals-online-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/more-work-in-the-built-up-capitals-online-class\/","title":{"rendered":"More work in the Built Up Capitals online class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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18 in x 12 in. Three gouache colors, #4 and #5 Mitchell nibs, on Arches MBM. Text from “Unmarked Boxes” by Rumi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These versal variations are simply addictive. Slowly, slowly, I internalize how to waist the strokes (but not too much), how to finish the finials squarely, how to add a hairline serif. Then my concentration drifts and so does the width of the stroke, the slant of the letter, the shape of the bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was really focusing on the letter forms, and the layout was planned only line by line. As I imagine happens with a writer of a serial novel, I wrote myself into a couple of dead ends. And added the squares at the end to break up a hole that had formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These versal variations are simply addictive. Slowly, slowly, I internalize how to waist the strokes (but not too much), how to finish the finials squarely, how to add a hairline serif. Then my concentration drifts and so does the width of the stroke, the slant of the letter, the shape of the bowl. I was … <\/p>\n

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