Some recent morning brush practice
– a single alphabet of Fraktur based on the variations of calligrapher Luca Barcellona,
whose work I’ve recently discovered.
daily practice
Pages and Pages
When you practice music every day, for example playing the piano,
you don’t really generate anything tangible.
It’s all internal or fleeting audible.
But doing calligraphy regularly one eventually accumulates pages and pages of experiments,
tries and just plain practice.
Recent Morning Brush Practice
Here are a couple of sheets of recent morning brush practice.
Besides lettering practice, I’m also experimenting with polyrhythm on these pages.
Draft for Class Project
Flat Brush (continued)
Exploring Counters
Calligraphy class assignment to help explore positive, negative and counter spaces.
Sketchbook Words
I’ve been working on a series called “Words Create Worlds”.
Here are some ideas from one of my daily sketchbooks.
Like a Flash of Lightning
Working with a variety of tools and inks and one of my favorite morning contemplations.
More Flat Brush
I’m continuing to experiment with flat brushes.