{"id":265,"date":"2013-07-25T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T00:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-04-27T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T21:27:46","slug":"spiral-calligraphy-with-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/07\/25\/spiral-calligraphy-with-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Calligraphy with The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_266\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Road.700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266\" src=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Road.700-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"2 Poems in One\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Road.700-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Road.700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 Poems in One<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I put my new <a title=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/07\/21\/spiral-and-circular-spacing-guides\/\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/07\/21\/spiral-and-circular-spacing-guides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiral guideline sheets<\/a> into practice with this piece. The red text is from <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, featuring the poem, &#8220;Roads go ever ever on,&#8221; and the black text is a poem from the <em>Lord of the Rings,<\/em> &#8220;The Road goes ever on and on.&#8221; <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Road_Goes_Ever_On_%28song%29\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Road_Goes_Ever_On_%28song%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The complete texts of both<\/a> are included. I&#8217;m thrilled that I got every word of each to fit! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I used a Speedball C4 nib with red calligraphy ink. I used a .01 Copic Multiliner pen for the black lettering. I used Strathmore Artagain(R) 9 x 12&#8243; paper with a tint of color and visible fibers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put my new spiral guideline sheets into practice with this piece. The red text is from The Hobbit, featuring the poem, &#8220;Roads go ever ever on,&#8221; and the black text is a poem from the Lord of the Rings, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/07\/25\/spiral-calligraphy-with-the-hobbit\/\">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":[4,27,31,30,29,25,26,28,21],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-calligraphy","tag-lotr","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-roads-go-ever-ever-on","tag-the-hobbit","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","tag-the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on","tag-uncial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}