Author Archives: Steve Husting

About Steve Husting

Steve Husting is a mild webmaster by day and fearless writer by night. He is deaf, loves making calligraphy, hiking, terrific movies, and making the Bible's message clear to his readers. His devotionals are regularly published in Daily Devotionals for the Deaf, and his latest apps are sold in the iTunes App Store. His self-published Christian and calligraphy books are on lulu.com/spotlight/stevehusting

Valentine’s Day card, 2014

I had fun designing this Valentine’s Day card for my wife. I had been practicing Copperplate calligraphy, getting ready for a new calligraphy how-to video app, and decided to do more modern-style lettering to loosen up This was the result. … Continue reading

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Playing with Uncial

I had a great two “Uncialicious” classes with Jane Shibata, who taught several varieties of the Uncial lettering style to our monthly Orange County Society for Calligraphy members. Here are several in-class work and homework projects.

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Pointed Pen: Square and rounded downstroke tops

When you make a thick (“shaded”) Copperplate downstroke, don’t you hate it when they are rounded at the top and not square? I made a video showing how the flat top is made. I show both stroke tops so you … Continue reading

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Feel like giving up?

Do you feel like you’ve hit a brick wall with your calligraphy? You feel like you’re never going to be good enough? Then read this: http://zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beginners/

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Google Alerts

Sometimes we would like to get more information about our hobby (or livelihood). I remember back when I started in calligraphy (which was on or not long after 1972, based on the 20th Edition Speedball Handbook copyright, one of my … Continue reading

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Calligraphy Certificate Received

Barbara Close presented her students with this wonderful certificate, which started out as a blank piece of paper. She gave it to her students who had taken all four of her classes throughout the year. She used the pointed pen, … Continue reading

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Hand-made Calligraphy Flag Book

I was inspired to create this flag book from the directions in the book, Making Handmade Books, by Alisa Golden, and from my calligraphy workshop series by Barbara Close. Our class did all the paper work, smearing acrylic paint on … Continue reading

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Calligraphy by Design: Generating ideas using design principles

In the past, I let my spiritual side lead me and waited for inspiration to strike before I started on a calligraphy project. But that way was hit-and-miss, and led to long stretches of time between projects. Now that I’m … Continue reading

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Christian Hymn Calligraphy

As soon as we finished singing this song in church this morning, I was inspired with the design and jotted it down in my notes, then came home and created it. All the designs were hand drawn/written with parallel pens … Continue reading

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Favorite Calligraphy Videos

Updated January 19, 2014. Contents (Contents links not working? Just scroll down.) Demonstrations Flourishes Gothic Capitals Insular Half-Uncial Medieval Manuscripts Quill and Reed pen making Misc. Instruction Personalities Saint John’s Bible Uncategorized Demonstrations Writing with different instruments (Japanese language) Envelope … Continue reading

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