December 2009 Calligraphy Challenge

[Andaluz01]

Hi it's me again ,I have a question,I want to post a few things I've done,but they don't fit at any thred I see.Do I need to request a thread for it,or just I open one?,How do you folks do it?I appreciate any advise.Thank you.

[clairegriffin]

So sorry for the delay in getting a post up here. The holidays blurred together starting at Thanksgiving. It should be one big super holiday called "Thanchrisnewyear".

Anyway, here's an ode to snow days past. I like the stream of consciousness
and the snowman. Have a great new year! I look forward to a new start.

Claire

[azulparsnip]

Kim - thanks. When YOU say it is looking better I believe it. This is NOT a stamp. The ink smearing I mentioned was to little specks from stacking the cards with the linocut ink not entirely dry. The greeting is done with felt calligraphy marker. Your Christmas card is gorgeous. I sympathize with everything getting backed up to last moment. Maybe we should all get together and hash out our cards say in september.

Andluz - a big welcome, Your illuminated and illustrated page is beautiful. I'm glad of your company and look forward to seeing your postings.

Sharon - oh, your posting is like a little Christmas present. I 'm so glad things are moving along for you and DO hope for the best. Might we pop on to e bay and see your stuff? What do we look for?

Elsie - what joy that little one is to you, You are blessed.

Sielograms - Nice calligraphy post. You are not late. This is up till December.
I like the way they are linked "arm in arm"

Claire - Beautiful, peacefull snow!!!! and it is all the O's - how wonderful......they are so perfectly sprinkled throughout. Did you have to do alot of arranging to achieve that? The regularity of the letters is relaxing.

I hope to get something down for this challenge soon.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -

[Hiraeth]

Hi Claire! That is SO.COOL!! Love, love, love it! (I may try something similar someday--is that OK with you?)

(Hi Robin! )

PS: Anyone else having trouble with the email updates? I haven't been getting any notices lately . . .

[Hiraeth]

Hi Andaluz! Just start a new thread to get a new conversation started! I'll be looking for it!

K

Originally Posted by Andaluz01

Hi it's me again ,I have a question,I want to post a few things I've done,but they don't fit at any thred I see.Do I need to request a thread for it,or just I open one?,How do you folks do it?I appreciate any advise.Thank you.

[clairegriffin]

hi all,
i had a lot of fun with the snowman piece. i knew what i wanted to achieve with all the snowflakes in the "o's", so i wrote it over and over again with as many "o" words as could work for me. it took a lot of tweaking and thinking to come up with a cohesive stream of conscious, but i think it worked. feel free to give it a go.

happy new year!

looking forward to the next challenge.

claire

[elsietreenut]

Sielograms – I love your peace-joy-hope! The smooth curvy letters give it a nice feeling. It could make a nice Christmas card. I hope you join us and post again.

Adulez – to start a new thread, go to the calligraphy page where all the threads are listed. At the top left of the page there is a blue “button” labelled “new thread”. Click on it and it will give you the box in which to start a new thread.

clairgriffin – It did work! That’s beautiful!!!! I also like the letter Os forming the snowflakes and well done with getting so many Os into the script. Poetry, art and calligraphy combined. It’s wonderful.

You Americans definitely have it busier than us Aussies at this time of year – Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all on top of eachother! Although the school year here ends in December so it tends to be very busy for families with school kids – with exams and report cards and graduation/presentation nights.

Robin – I like your idea of getting together in September to prepare for Christmas. Or maybe January, lol?


I also haven’t done anything for this Challenge! It has been difficult to get things done leading up to Christmas due to not feeling well – but I am starting to feel better now.

I tried to get some Christmas cooking done. I made “pink peppermint pie” from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. (It was a wedding present form my American grandmother and it’s my favourite cookbook.) Do any of you have that book? Often at Christmas I give all the Australian relatives something uniquely American from it.

This year while making the pies - on Christmas eve - I accidentally whipped one batch of cream to butter and didn’t have enough cream to finish all the pies! Oh, well. We enjoyed our Christmas day anyway and had a lovely time relaxing with family. That’s the important thing.

Maybe I will still get some Christmas artwork/calligraphy done in these last three days of December . .

[Hiraeth]

Hi Elsie!

SO GLAD you're feeling better now! You've got three more days to get something posted and you know we don't care if you come in a few days late! : D I've got two blog banners to do this week but I'm still hoping to get something else posted up to this thread.

(Looking forward to another year of creativity and fellowship with you all!)

Blessings,
Kim

[Andaluz01]

Thank you everyone for the info.I'll get my stuff in order and scan them.

[elsietreenut]

I took some inspiration from sielograms:



it's gel pen - not a proper calligraphy medium I know, but fun.

[Hiraeth]

If you've got a pen, you can do calligraphy. Not all lettering is done with a broad or pointed pen!

I tried to do some brush calligraphy today but it didn't go well. I don't know what kind of brush I should use. . .

Originally Posted by elsietreenut

I took some inspiration from sielograms:



it's gel pen - not a proper calligraphy medium I know, but fun.

[Andaluz01]

Originally Posted by elsietreenut

it's gel pen - not a proper calligraphy medium I know, but fun.

You did a wonderful job!!You used gel pens,I use ballpoint pens .Like Hiraeth said "If you've got a pen, you can do calligraphy. Not all lettering is done with a broad or pointed pen!"I learned that too.But I still need a lot of practice.Again,great job.

[jjsangel]

Hi sielograms, it's nice to see some new faces around here since I have been away. Your piece is really beautiful and colorful. I love the flow and connection to each other. Very nice.

Claire, I love your snowy piece. It does give one a feeling of the softly falling snow. So pretty.

Elsie what a pretty piece and a great job. See you were inspired by sielograms and that is a nice tribute. I love gel pens and you've done such a nice job with them. Like I said, you just keep getting better.

[jjsangel]

Hey Robin...sure you can check out my ebay. I don't have anything posted right now but should have a couple by the end of the day. I've been out of town for a funeral, my husbands step dad passed away on the 23rd and we went to KY. To find me you have to put ACEO in the search box and then "unfortunately" you have to scroll down through them all until you see the name of one of my cards with my name after it. Once you go into one you can click on the right hand side to see other ones I have posted. Once I get some posted, let me know what you think of them.

[elsietreenut]

Thanks, Andulaz, Kim, and Sharon.

Maybe I'll get some actual lettering practice in this year.