{"id":896,"date":"2015-01-05T23:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2015-02-06T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T03:37:09","slug":"e-ewan-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/e-ewan-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"E is for Ewan &#8230; Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanclayton.co.uk\/\">Ewan<\/a> Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken several workshops with Ewan over the years, and it is always a wonderful experience. Most recently, at the 2013 calligraphy conference <em>Legacies II<\/em> in Dallas, Texas, we explored\u00a0a pseudo-primitive lettering style developed by Ben Shahn. Earlier, in 2003, I also studied &#8220;Color and Environment in Artmaking&#8221; with Ewan and Hazel Dolby at Camp Cheerio. And before that, in 1990: &#8220;Spirituality in Calligraphy&#8221; at\u00a0<em>Calligraphy Connection<\/em>\u00a0at St. Johns University in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Ewan Clayton&#8217;s\u00a0recent book entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Golden-Thread-History-Writing\/dp\/1619022427\/bethleecallbo-20\">The Golden Thread: A History\u00a0of Writing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a must-read for any calligrapher. If there is a canon of calligraphy literature, this book stands firmly in the center with just a few others. I reviewed this entertaining and educational book\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/guildofbookworkers.org\/sites\/guildofbookworkers.org\/files\/newsletter\/gbw214.pdf\">June 2014 issue<\/a>\u00a0of the Guild of BookWorkers <em>Newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"906\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/e-ewan-clayton\/2015-01-05-ewan-clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,695\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SCH-I535&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374926411&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0037735849056604&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-01-05 Ewan Clayton workshop my piece 2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-906 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-05 Ewan Clayton workshop my piece 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-Ewan-Clayton-workshop-my-piece-2013.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a not-very-good image of one of the pieces I did in Ewan&#8217;s 2-day class at the 2013 conference. I believe I photographed it with my smartphone while it lay on the floor of the workshop room.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the year I spent some more time with these letters and thoroughly enjoyed myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"905\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/e-ewan-clayton\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,638\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HTC6525LVW&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420498900&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.82&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-01-05 thank-you notes and more\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-905\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-05 thank-you notes and more\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-05-thank-you-notes-and-more.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My daily lettering today consisted of one quotation and several thank-you notes. Shown here is the outside of one of the thank-you notes as well as two of the envelopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E is for Ewan Clayton. I have taken several workshops with Ewan over the years, and it is always a wonderful experience. Most recently, at the 2013 calligraphy conference Legacies II in Dallas, Texas, we explored\u00a0a pseudo-primitive lettering style developed by Ben Shahn. Earlier, in 2003, I also studied &#8220;Color and Environment in Artmaking&#8221; with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/e-ewan-clayton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E is for Ewan &#8230; Clayton&#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":[63],"tags":[64,81],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-teacher-alphabet","tag-2015-daily-lettering","tag-ewan-clayton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-es","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}