Playing with Sandrine Pelissier's Mixed Media Paintimg Techniques

Ever since I saw Lenall Siebenaler's floral paintings from her Sandrine Pelissier online class, I've wanted to create paintings with these techniques. Here's my first attempt, now to add more color and ink drawings.

Nick Bantock Composition Exercise

Yesterday, friends gathered to play with an exercise from Nick Bantock's book The Trickster's Hat - a mischievous apprenticeship in creativity. We chose to work with exercise eight- composition.  These almost look like eye charts. At first, I wasn't too keen on doing this, one letter glued to a 6x6 inch paper. I actually enjoyed the exercise and see possibilities for combining calligraphic hand made letters with varieties of type set letters.

Creating Beauty and Restoring Soul

Stitched Journal

It's great to start the New Year with a finished journal. Robin Olsen taught our art group how she makes her hand stitched journals. We used fabric scraps and Kantha stitch variations with different colors of embroidery thread. This may be my next travel journal.

2015 Calligraphy Book Exchange Video

Happy New Year! May 2016 bring you many blessings and a year full of friendship, creativity, good health and adventure.

Yesterday, I received a video from Shelby showing her 2015 calligraphy book that resulted from exchanging pages with her, myself and Jan Kruger. I posted some of my pages earlier in the year.

Enjoy the video-   https://youtu.be/3ockQctrV5M

Bring in the Light, Happy Winter Solstice

Calligraphy friends exchanged winter solstice weather grams this week. Before hanging them in the tree outside, I thought I'd share them with you.

Being part Scandinavian, I enjoyed this link about Winter Solstice and  Mother Christmas.

Ready for Magic

I'm working on a final project for this fall term calligraphy class with Carol DuBosch. We learned Bookhand, simple Roman Caps and Bone. I really like the pen manipulation with Bone. I wrote a poem four years ago entitled A Childhood Myth and used this text for my project. Recently, I read Elizabeth Gilbert's book Big Magic which inspired me to take a line from the poem for a card- "ready for magic".  Here's the poem hand lettered in Bookhand with an Uncial title. The holiday season tells of dreams and childhood memories.