{"id":205,"date":"2013-04-17T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-04-17T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:12:00","slug":"calligraphy-homework-uncial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/04\/17\/calligraphy-homework-uncial\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy Homework, Uncial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/isa.53.600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206\" alt=\"Isaiah 53 in Uncial, by Steve Husting\" src=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/isa.53.600.jpg\" width=\"527\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/isa.53.600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/isa.53.600-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah 53 in Uncial, by Steve Husting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;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 <em>un-shul).<\/em> The text is taken from Isaiah 53:3-5a, which prophetically speaks of the death of Jesus Christ hundreds of years in advance; hence, the cross shape in the text.<\/p>\n<p>Homework rules include to use lines of text evenly spaced with no space between them, using a mixture of regular broad-edged nib and monoline for the lettering. I used a Speedball C-3 nib, brown Winsor &amp; Newton Calligraphy Ink, and red Sakura &#8220;Gelly Roll&#8221; Metallic gel pen on 11 x 14&#8243; Strathmore Sketch paper.<\/p>\n<p>This is my third attempt. Alert readers will find a word in which I formed the first stroke of the wrong letter, then wrote right over it with the correct letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/04\/17\/calligraphy-homework-uncial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,20,19,18],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-calligraphy","tag-cross","tag-isaiah-53","tag-jesus-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}