{"id":3483,"date":"2023-02-28T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:05:49","slug":"working-in-a-blackletter-class-with-john-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/28\/working-in-a-blackletter-class-with-john-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in a blackletter class with John Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This online class finished a couple of weeks ago. However, I’m still working on the plethora of blackletter exemplars and examples that John Stevens shared with us. So it not only was<\/em> a wonderful class, it still is<\/em> a wonderful class for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left: flat brush and Nicker poster color on Artagain black paper. Right: 2mm Brause nib and stick ink on unknown difficult paper. Each page 9×12 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

John usually includes layout in his classes. And he often uses the folio to combine image and text on the page together. The work above is a response one of those folio assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still want to spend some time with double-stroked blackletter (this example<\/a> of John’s is so luscious), Fraktur capitals with pen and with brush, pattern-filled Lombardic capitals, and some Zapf and Koch exemplars. And more …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s interesting to compare the lettering I did in this class with the blackletter work I did<\/a> in Luca Barcellona’s class two years ago. I felt more comfortable with that earlier work, even as it was happening. And I wonder why? I think it may be that the earlier class did not present as many choices, as much background. I feel that I came away from the blackletter class with John Stevens with a whole panoply of lettering choices and ideas, and that I learned one style very well in Luca Barcellona’s class. Both have been extraordinarily valuable classes. And I’m glad that I happened to take the two classes in the order that I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This online class finished a couple of weeks ago. However, I’m still working on the plethora of blackletter exemplars and examples that John Stevens shared with us. So it not only was a wonderful class, it still is a wonderful class for me. John usually includes layout in his classes. And he often uses the … <\/p>\n

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