{"id":3504,"date":"2023-05-13T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:07:37","slug":"mt-workshop-capitals-as-text-and-tiny-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/mt-workshop-capitals-as-text-and-tiny-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop in Great Falls: Capitals as Text &#038; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a wonderful time last weekend teaching my workshop, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/26\/workshop-teaching-text-capitals-and-painted-landscapes\/\">Capitals as Text &amp; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements<\/a>,&#8221; to my own state guild. We had a good time studying a fragment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-codices.unifr.ch\/en\/list\/one\/csg\/1394\">this 5th-century manuscript book<\/a> written in square capitals (see <a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/11\/exploring-square-capitals-mss\/\">this earlier post<\/a>), improving our tiny nibs, making tiny broad-edge nibs from pointed nibs, and getting into the weeds with pens, gouache, and paper. It is nourishing to be among friends who share our love of all things alphabetic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"899\" data-attachment-id=\"3506\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/mt-workshop-capitals-as-text-and-tiny-paintings\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1053\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer-1024x899.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer-1024x899.jpg\" alt=\"Mohawk prayer made in celebration of Earth Day. Calligraphy made in preparation for the workshop: &quot;Capitals as Text &amp; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer-1024x899.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer-768x674.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-earth-day-prayer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mohawk prayer made in celebration of Earth Day. 6&#8243; x 6.5&#8243; content area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop name is problematic: &#8220;Capitals as Text &amp; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements,&#8221; &#8220;Tiny Capitals &amp; Tiny Painting,&#8221; &#8220;Small Capitals &amp; Landscapes&#8221; \u2014 perhaps some day I&#8217;ll settle on a cogently brief name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is only the second workshop our state guild has hosted since the pandemic, and it was so good to be together again. Many thanks to my friend Mary Jo who put me up in her lovely house. I&#8217;m amazed at what a stellar job she and Ruth did in organizing the workshop. (AND we got to see baby geese!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"311\" data-attachment-id=\"3508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/mt-workshop-capitals-as-text-and-tiny-paintings\/2023-05-13-ducks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-F926U1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1683406246&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2023-05-13-ducks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-1024x311.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-1024x311.jpg\" alt=\"Geese mother and chicks\" class=\"wp-image-3508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-1024x311.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-768x233.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-1536x467.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-13-ducks-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful time last weekend teaching my workshop, &#8220;Capitals as Text &amp; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements,&#8221; to my own state guild. We had a good time studying a fragment of this 5th-century manuscript book written in square capitals (see this earlier post), improving our tiny nibs, making tiny broad-edge nibs from pointed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/13\/mt-workshop-capitals-as-text-and-tiny-paintings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Workshop in Great Falls: Capitals as Text &#038; Tiny Paintings as Graphical Elements&#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":[130],"tags":[240,228,241],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-square-capitals","tag-text-capitals","tag-workshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Uw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}