Spiritual Calligraphy book
See God’s Word glorified in these 16 passages from the Gospel of Mark, each one beautifully illustrated with stunning calligraphy paired with an insightful meditation. Full color throughout. Also includes information and photos about the calligrapher’s tools used throughout the book.
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Author Archives: Steve Husting
Calligraphy Internet Resources (guilds, supplies, images, learning, etc.)
Contents Calligraphy Guilds Learning Calligraphy Calligraphy Supplies in the U.S. Calligraphy Books Published Historical collections Glossaries of Calligraphy and Lettering Terms Wikipedia Calligraphy Entries Misc. Calligraphy Interest Calligraphy Images (various Internet search results) Sell Your Work or Services Alphabet Sentences (pangrams) Informational … Continue reading
Calligraphy Books in Steve’s Collection
These books in my collection are listed here in no particular order at this time. I noted several books as RECOMMENDED for their particular excellence. a A Passion for the Pen: The Art of Georgina Artigas Brenda Casey Zoby 64pp 2006 … Continue reading
Video of My Calligraphy Process when Creating John 1:14
I videotaped the creation of a calligraphy piece over the weekend. I used John 1:14 for my inspiration. calligraphy-john-1-14b from Steve Husting on Vimeo.
Spiral Calligraphy with The Hobbit
I put my new spiral guideline sheets into practice with this piece. The red text is from The Hobbit, featuring the poem, “Roads go ever ever on,” and the black text is a poem from the Lord of the Rings, … Continue reading
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Spiral and Circular Spacing Guides
Spiral & Circular Guides I created a series of circular and spiral guidelines in Adobe Illustrator to help me with my calligraphy work. Click on the link above to download the PDF of several pages of these guides.
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The Ten Commandments in Calligraphy
I created this after a friend asked for the Ten Commandments for his wall. I was challenged to figure out a way to list them in a visually appealing way. Originally I had listed the commandments in neat blocks, one … Continue reading
Brother’s Wedding Vows
When my younger brother got married earlier this year, I asked him to send me his wedding vows so I can create them as a calligraphy project. He emailed me two vows, one spoken by the bride and the other … Continue reading
Calligraphy Supplies Around the World
Sometimes people from outside the U.S. would like to know how they can get calligraphy supplies in their own country. So I thought I would do a search to find calligraphy sites around the world. The following is only a … Continue reading
Making Line Spacing Guides in Microsoft Word
To make guidelines easily in Microsoft Word (and similar text programs): 1. Open a new page and set the margins all around so they are narrow, like .5″. 2. Hold down the Shift key and the Underline key and “draw” … Continue reading
Classroom project
Barbara Close showed us an intriguing art treatment consisting of abstract text forms cut out as squares and put together in a line, with text above and (if I remember) below. She suggested we do this ourselves in class. When … Continue reading