The creation of words for scrolls. Some folks specialize in certain time periods and styles specific to various cultures throughout the ages.
2020 has been a trying year. The stress of all that”s been going on though the year has taken its toll on my drive to art. The few assignments I”ve received have helped considerably. This one was a rough one. My brain kept flipping between complex and simple. In the end, a simple take on […]
Took on this assignment and was at a loss for what to do for illumination. I”d did some searching through the EK Wiki and browsed through her husband”s blog but had a really hard time coming up with ideas. So I set upon creating the words to see if that would give me some inspiration, […]
And this is how you end up with multiple assignments, knowing people. A Facebook group chat was formed and I found myself in the middle of happy exclamations that this was, in fact, going to be a thing! I”d written Kenneric in for a Silver Brooch, but it didn”t get much traction. This time, however, […]
I”ll admit, I was a little giddy when the Signet reached out to me about this assignment. I already had two others on my plate for the end of the month, but they were calligraphy only. I”m quite happy that through some careful planning I was able to wiggle this into the space between the […]
This scroll was a trial. It just didn”t” want to be. The first attempt was going really well. The paper and ink were getting along pretty well. It was a recycled paper that I”d inherited and I used Noodler”s Bulletproof Black, which is a pretty well-behaved ink. There were some spots that had not been […]