Calligraphy

An amazing way to preserve thought throughout time and communicate today's issues for all to see tomorrow. What you write today may be studied 1,000 years from now for not only its content but how you communicated it.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

A Birthday Card for my wife. Happy Birthday Deanna!








This was completed on natural white parchment, with a 2.0 nib, drawings are done free hand, the versals are traced, the painted portions are done with student quality gouache, it's 5/8th's ribbon with a jade wax seal.

The hand lettering is a Uncial base with a few letter modifications found over time.