Here is a sample that I designed with Gothic Schwabach, using white letters instead of black letters.
I will be teaching some calligraphy in Singapore to a mixed ability group including beginners in April and they want a decorative script, but not Uncials or Gothic! We finally decided on a sort of simplified Italicised Gothic derived from Schwabach. There will be just one day doing lower case including writing in watercolour and one day doing decorative capitals. These were written with a balsa pen and traced.
They have a sort-of Adolf-Bernd feel in the colour use and having white lines, but his letters were on paper 38cmX56cm and my letters are each 5X6cm.
Dear Lin, Oh, these are beautiful! No time for me to do calligraphy at the moment as I am clearing STUFF in my studio pending my move to the UK in June. Hopefully, once settled I will have time to pick up a pen again. Thank you for all the inspirational sharing. Love, Sue
Oh wow – where in the UK?
I’d love to see you. Love lIn
Beautiful !!
Thank you for posting these, they’re beautiful. I have done exercises with complementary colour mixing inspired by your swatch swop.
Great! – Beautiful, vibrant, fun!
I love these examples – they look such fun to do! Thanks, as always for sharing such interesting stuff!