Travel and garden produce preservation projects have kept me from my studio in recent weeks. Today was a “free day” so I dug out my inks, pens and practice paper. I played with an alphabet learned from well-known calligrapher, Barry Morentz. (Here’s his website: https://acornarts.org/barry-morentz-gothicized.html  or you can find him on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/barrymorentz/ His “Gothicized Italic” letters are his hallmark. I admire them very much. I used the Speedball Textbook with his exemplar to guide my letter play today. Also used my Westwind practice pad, calli red ink and walnut ink and a size 2 Mitchell nib to do this lettering.

Here is my “dinking around.” LOTS of mistakes, but it is fun to get back in the calligraphy saddle after a long time away.

Hidee-ho, off I go. Time to get ready for “Girls’ Night Out” with a gaggle of friends.

QUESTION:

What have you neglected to do that would be fun and “good for your soul”? Will you carve out a bit of time to do that fun thing this weekend? Hope so!