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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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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Tagged calligraphy, LOTR, poem, poetry, Roads go ever ever on, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Road goes ever on and on, Uncial
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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
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
Calligraphy Homework, Uncial
I’m taking another class with Barbara Close as instructor. This 10-week class will cover Uncial and Gothic forms. The text above used a 5th century form of Uncial (pronounced un-shul). The text is taken from Isaiah 53:3-5a, which prophetically speaks … Continue reading
Practicing my Handwriting
Ames’ Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship, Daniel T. Ames, Author and Pulisher, 1884. I’m following the above lessons to get better handwriting. I’ve been working on my lowercase letters for the last few days. I normally scribble … Continue reading
See Spiritual Calligraphy in Video
I uploaded a video of my book, Spiritual Calligraphy. Take a tour of the book online! Spiritual Calligraphy, by Steve Husting
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Calligraphy based on Mark 5:19
Here is my latest calligraphy piece added to my series on Mark. Lettering was created with a Pilot Parallel pen on Strathmore 11 x 15″ watercolor paper. The background was created with a Letraset LetraJet Air Marker with various colors, … Continue reading
Calligraphy for Mark 10:27
I created this piece for my devotional app, Steps of a Disciple. I have four more to go before the series of 16 is complete. I used heavy Strathmore watercolor paper. I first tore painter’s tape in half lengthwise and … Continue reading