{"id":44,"date":"2006-02-05T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-02-05T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T15:20:00","slug":"scribbler-to-scribe-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/scribbler-to-scribe-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribbler to Scribe: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/hello\/1\/7883\/1024\/1983-10-03%20Ecclesiastes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/hello\/1\/7883\/200\/1983-10-03%20Ecclesiastes.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This week the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnealbooks.com\/\">Letter Arts Review<\/a> arrived in my mailbox. (I was on my way to the gym when I got the mail, so those 45 minutes on the elliptical machine just flew by.) I was especially interested in the new series article, &#8220;Scribbler to Scribe&#8221;. In this first article, Glen Epstein and Gwen Weaver remembered the beginning impulses that led to their years of calligraphy. There were three images for each of them: a recent piece of calligraphy, a beginning piece of calligraphy, and a picture of the scribbler about the time the early calligraphy was done.<\/p>\n<p>So I got to thinking. And yesterday I started a new version of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, the text of one of the first finished pieces I ever did, back in 1983. I&#8217;ll be interested to see the 1983 version next to the 2006 version. Here&#8217;s the 1983 version.<\/p>\n<p>I look at this piece and think &#8211; hey, not too bad for a beginner. But it&#8217;s clear that even as a beginner I was willing to go through some torture to get the results I want: the copy fitting for this piece had to have been really time-consuming. By contrast, this time around I used the computer to help with the layout. I wrote out the main text in a regular block of text, then scanned it in. Then in Photoshop Elements I created a circle shape and cut and pasted the bits of text until the circle worked. (I&#8217;m leaving out those lovely wooden swashes this time around.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the latest issue of Letter Arts Review arrived in my mailbox. (I was on my way to the gym when I got the mail, so those 45 minutes on the elliptical machine just flew by.) I was especially interested in the new series article, &#8220;Scribbler to Scribe&#8221;. In this first article, Glen Epstein &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/scribbler-to-scribe-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scribbler to Scribe: Part 1&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}