Monthly Archives: August 2010
Foundation Meets Bone…
The Foundation alphabet was aptly named by Edward Johnston as it is based on Carolingian, an early Humanist Roman hand and became the “foundation” for a calligraphy revival in the early 1900’s. This class will begin with a study of the beautiful, strong, round Foundation alphabet and then morph into the Bone alphabet which was […]
Continue readingFine Tuning the Fundamentals…
When you sit down to do a calligraphic piece, do you have to refer to an exemplar to remember how to write an alphabet? Are you happy and confident with the look of your basic alphabets? Are your letterforms up to snuff? We all want to be able to fly, but we need to know […]
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