Merry Christmas

Happy Winter Solstice

Let there be light!

Ready to tie weather grams to tree outside my window to blow in the wind, deteriorate with time and send messages of hope into the air.

Inner Outer Landscapes

We created posters for our final project in Carol DuBosch's  calligraphy class for Fall term. I entitled mine Inner Outer Landscapes wanting to reconnect with nature and beauty as a way to deal with all of the chaos in our country and the world.

Below is an outline with color scheme for the 11x17 inch poster.

 

Then, I did tests for background colors and lettering colors of ink, sumi, gouache and pen white.

Here's the poster with the background painted-

The title refers to the landscapes of my heart and mind as I relate to nature and beauty and deal with the stress of change. I selected quotes and parts of poems from John Muir, Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman, Lynn Unger, Buddha, Kahlil Gibran, and Ilan Shamir.