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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Book with embossed pages
In our class in Uncial lettering, we wre to create a book of 5-6 pages, including a colophon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(publishing)). Its size was to be half a page with wide orientation. The paper was to be folded in half with the … Continue reading
Prayer Promises Accordion Book
I had a 30″ x 5″ strip of paper left over from my last class homework’s accordion book (previous post). I had cut it to use as a backup in case I needed to redo. I decided to turn it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible verses, calligraphy, Italic, pointed pen, Uncial, watercolor
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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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Tagged calligraphy, Jabberwocky, quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Uncial
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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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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