Here is a picture from Tuesday night's Fairbank Calligraphy Society class. Georgia Angelopoulos (who is on the left holding the quill!) and I are looking at the assignment from one of the participants - Joan. Joan's work is just beautiful, a square format with Versals done with a quill surrounding an embossed motif. Joan's finger is pointing something out to us. Don't we look serious? Who can remember now what Joan was saying??
Georgia taught three excellent sessions on built up Versals and we had the opportunity to do them with pen, a brush or quills. In the next series of classes I am teaching painted capitals - done with transparent watercolours on Arches MBM paper. We have a great class of students who have done exceptional work for their assignments. Thank you to the class members for your participation and to Anne for sending us this picture.
Here are three images from "pages" from a book I have been working on. On these pages I had been exploring the negative space of writing and the shape and format of the page. They were done with Sumi ink on Arches MBM paper. I had started on many of the pages during the summer residency and brought them home to keep looking at and deciding what to do with this "book". I added the square of negative and positive writing in the top one in which the first marks were done with ruling pen and automatic pens. The bottom one somehow reminds me of Tadpole Writing. I hope to continue on with this project and I was influenced to do black and white work by seeing the article about Joke Boudens in Letter Arts Review. Joke does not use coloured backgrounds - but uses black and white and all the values in between. My husband, a B & W photographer, heartilly endorses this idea as then everything comes down to form and composition.
