A cheerful Mother’s Day card is in the mail. Trying my hand at some more Spencerian style letters. It ain’t easy.
Calligrapher gone mad. Make the envelopes stop.
She’s all healed up! My first lettering tattoo project is complete AND satisfying to sit across.
foxflavoredicecream asked: How did you learn how to write so well? I really love typography but I don't know where to begin seriously.
Classes and a LOT of practice. If you really want to learn, find out what exactly you really want to learn. Calligraphy is split between 2 styles pointed pen (what I do) or broad pen (more of a gothic style). If you contact IAMPETH,I’m sure they can suggest classes/teachers near you. Thank you for your kind words and stay away from actual foxes!
So exciting. My friend used my lettering for a tattoo. It came out great!
Practicing abecedarian sentences for class. That fox never rests.
Flourished capitals with Mater Penman Bill Lilly. This is a damn fine piece of work.
You can buy the original or a copy here!
I felt the need for yellow ink and spring poetry on this chilly day! I’m playing around with this e e cummings poem. Not sure where it’s going but it’s a great diversion!
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Oh, calligraphy. Practice may not make perfect, but it does make Dumbledore hands.
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I fell across a very amusing/bizarre phrenology book today, Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (via Public Domain). According to Vaught, you can learn a lot from a person’s character not only from his skulliest skull, but his writing as well.
Anyone who writes this way is subject to flattery. Remember that appropativeness is the center of flattery. It is the only faculty that likes it.
Don’t give yourself away in your writing; particularly your weakness.
It is my goal this week to make the most approbative letters possible! I’d rather be subject to flattery than make an ugly cautious “C”.
