{"id":3431,"date":"2022-07-03T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2022-08-29T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:07:55","slug":"pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointed-brush fun in Yves Leterme&#8217;s class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had some serious fun in a recent pointed-brush class with Yves Leterme this spring. Very serious. So often, classes in lettering concentrate on the individual letters, with some attention paid to letter- and word-spacing. These weird, wild letters needed attention and care, but the true challenge was in making them work together as a texture. This required some serious attention and difficult decisions. And this is work I need to be doing. So I will be continuing this for awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"554\" data-attachment-id=\"3432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme\/20220703-yves-brush-class-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,554\" 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=\"20220703-Yves-brush-class-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1.jpg\" alt=\"Homework done in week 3 of the pointed-brush class with Yves Leterme.  The point of this exercise was to come up with as many symbols that read as &quot;A&quot;. \nWalnut ink and water brush on a fat 11 in x 14 in pad of drawing paper.\" class=\"wp-image-3432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-1-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Homework done in week 3 of the pointed brush class with Yves Leterme. The point of this exercise was to come up with as many symbols that read as &#8220;A&#8221;.  Walnut ink and water brush on a fat 11 in x 14 in pad of drawing paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"622\" data-attachment-id=\"3433\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme\/20220703-yves-brush-class-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,622\" 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=\"20220703-Yves-brush-class-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2.jpg\" alt=\"Homework done in week 3 of the pointed brush class with Yves Leterme. Here I experimented with as many different kinds of connections between pairs of letters as I could manage. Then I used that new &quot;vocabulary&quot; of connections to write the word.\" class=\"wp-image-3433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-2-768x531.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>More homework done in week 3. Here I experimented with as many different kinds of connections between pairs of letters as I could manage. Then I used that new &#8220;vocabulary&#8221; of connections to write the word.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"976\" data-attachment-id=\"3434\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme\/20220703-yves-brush-class-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,976\" 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=\"20220703-Yves-brush-class-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3.jpg\" alt=\"Homework done in week 3 of the pointed-brush class with Yves Leterme. At the end of the first page of this exercise, I felt that I had a few more different &quot;California&quot;s in me.\" class=\"wp-image-3434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220703-Yves-brush-class-3-768x833.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>At the end of the first page of this exercise, I felt that I had a few more different &#8220;California&#8221;s in me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to check out work by others who took this class, search Instagram for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/pointedbrushlettering\/\">#pointedbrushlettering<\/a>. You can fairly easily tell which of those posts are related to Yves&#8217; class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third online class I&#8217;ve taken with Yves.  I took his class on <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/built-up-caps-course-taught-by-yves-leterme\/\">Built-Up Capitals<\/a> two years ago, which you may also remember from these posts <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/26\/built-up-caps-week-2-a\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/more-built-up-caps-class-work-in-the-style-of-david-jones\/\">here<\/a>. I also took his <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/homegrown-trajans-yves-leterme\/\">Homegrown Trajans<\/a> class four years ago, which was more serious fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His instruction is always interesting and his critiques are always helpful. I also like to look at his critiques of other students&#8217; homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe I&#8217;ve mentioned before what a wonderful education venue Harvest provides as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acornartsclassroom.org\/\">Acorn Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some serious fun in a recent pointed-brush class with Yves Leterme this spring. Very serious. So often, classes in lettering concentrate on the individual letters, with some attention paid to letter- and word-spacing. These weird, wild letters needed attention and care, but the true challenge was in making them work together as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/pointed-brush-class-with-yves-leterme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pointed-brush fun in Yves Leterme&#8217;s class&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Tl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","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=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}