the New Year and Most of my calligraphy this year has been part of book-writing, so I did all calligraphy for each poem in Dance. I tried writing the whole poem in italic but in the end it detracted from the text, so each poem just had an integrated phrase. The lettering above is probably one of my favourite ways of writing in Italic (as a title) because I manipulate the pen and change pressure a lot as well as moving through colours. It is done with watercolour and a C-O Speedball. I also … [Read more...]