Hello all!
I'm procrastinating about starting on some lettering work for today, and I've been thinking about calligraphy inspiration! More interesting stuff than a stack of envelopes to address, black on white...
So anyway, here are a few of the inspirations dancing in my head today:
1) I'm absolutely obsessed by the work of Italian calligrapher Barbara Calzolari. Does anybody here know her personally? I dropped her an email at her website,
www.GentlePeople.it, just to tell her how much I admire her! She has serious chops-- EVERYTHING she does, from very classic to-die-for Spencerian, to gestural, folded-pen sort of stuff... Pure beauty. Here's her flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8764890@N04/2) Flipping through the pages of Molly Suber Thorpe's sweet "Modern Calligraphy". So many adorable projects! I love her TS Eliot "Coffee Spoons" written in the round, in coffee! I think it was on her Instagram feed that I saw another quote she'd written in beet juice! I'm going to try a little writing in masking fluid one of these days, like she's done on her place cards. Here's her website:
http://www.plurabellecalligraphy.com/3) Open Ink Stand's Schin Loong. This girl is truly gifted with the pointed pen. She's also an amazing fantasy artist. Something else I really appreciate about her blog-- she can get a little saucy!
I can sometimes get a little bored by the sea of inspirational quotes that one sees when flipping through Calligraphy collections on pinterest, or blogs. Schin mixes up love poetry with Led Zeppelin lyrics, and Shakespeare and Browning with something like this!! I've re-pinned it to my own Tumblr blog.
http://joyfrenchblue.tumblr.com/Ok, I'm getting to work now. :-)