Geek stuff. A simple yet effective demo of how to use the handy Ames Lettering Guide.
Category: Calligraphy
I taught myself calligraphy over the years. When I remember to take a picture, I share it here.
Behind the scenes…
…, it’s a terrible scene!
I attempted to record myself writing, using a goose-neck phone-holder , that didn’t quite hold the phone. The damage was an entire bottle of ink.
Post apocalypse, I continued writing but I was definitely rattled & annoyed. Here’s a time-lapse view after an interruption for cleaning up the table.
Promontory
Promontory: 1. A point of high land projecting into a body of water.
2. A projecting part of the body, for example, of a bone.
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” John Donne; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions; 1624.
Construe
The quote, from Mr. Billy Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar. HT: Wordsmith.org
“But men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”
Exigency
One of my longest-standing subscriptions to a newsletter is the most pleasurable Wordsmith.org
This week’s theme of words have usage examples that are food for thought. I’ve written out one – exigency – in a poem by Emily Dickinson.
Mindful May 2020
This is my calligraphy effort during Mindful May 2020, a series of poems or quotes that I wrote out through the pandemic.
WP Plug-in used here to display the photo album: Embed Google Photos Album Easily by Pavex
The ALTMBA Credo
The AltMBA was one of the best things I did in 2020.
I’ve been writing this credo as often as possible, reminding myself of Steven Pressfield’s hard-hitting observations about Resistance in the War of Art.
Alone
Creative adults
Starting to write in Spencerian again. Good heavens, a long way to go!
Stoicism
