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Birthday Cards for Work

For about a year now I’ve been doing the monthly birthday cards for the company’s employees. In the past, the company bought giant Hallmark cards, large enough for every employee to sign, and they were given out once a month … Continue reading

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Joy to the World artwork, attempt #2 (with video)

I finished my second version of Joy to the World. The problem with the first version is that although the word joy was there, the “joy” wasn’t. So this version was an attempt to put the joy into the work. … Continue reading

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Not quite right

I created this piece recently, but it’s not turning out the way I wanted. I thought I would put it up here, because it’s still nice to see!

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

After many preliminary sketches to decide which way to take this work, I finally finished Hark! today.

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Calligraphy Christmas Cards to my penpals

I created these Christmas cards for my penpals. I used ink and paint, Parallel Pen (black) and brush (gold, silver, white). Also used gel pens for added touches and lettering. We had excess green card stock so I used that, … Continue reading

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Gold leaf gilding practice

The last few classes of Barbara Close’s workshop in November were spent learning gold leaf gilding on an intricate illuminated letter. We transferred found fancy artwork to our papers and added the color and gold leaf. I found this pattern … Continue reading

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Calligraphy class: Brush

I’m taking Barbra Close’s newest workshop series, and she’s starting us off with brushwork. Following are a couple of projects I completed. The orange lettering is from a class handout containing five quotes and we instructed to choose one and … Continue reading

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Latest Copperplate Practice

I’ve let my Copperplate calligraphy go for quite a while. I started practicing again, using the excellent Vitolo PDF handout from online (iampeth.com – “video workshop handout” link). You can compare the two to see I’ve still got a way … Continue reading

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Illuminated Manuscript, Numbers 6:24-26

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Illuminated Manuscript color studies

I’m starting on my first illuminated manuscript. I settled on the two verses for the 16 x 20″ piece, and the arrangement of the words. Next, I needed to work on the color and decorations. Here is one of my … Continue reading

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