Master Calligrapher Barbara Calzolari

[AmyNeub]

I'm very lucky because I'm her devote student and I'm arranging some courses with her in Italy (if anyone want to have an holiday in the center of Italy...contact me )
she is wonderful!!! in every sense. And she is incredible more than seems!

Lucky to live in Italy and be able to take her classes. Soak everything up she says and take lots of notes too.

[theMDwrites]

Oh my goodness!!! She's the latest addition to my calligraphy heroes! Huhuhu.. Why am I soooo far from all this?😭😭😭 I wish I could sit in her class one day. I wish I could meet you all. I wish theres a flourish forum meeting, too. 😁 wouldn't that be awesome?

[Estefa]

Hello Bunso Gail, finally we meet here too !! And a FlourishForum Meeting somewhere would be so awesome … difficult to realise though, I guess …

So I hope to see you here a lot …

[theMDwrites]

Hello Ate!! So happy to hear from you here.. Boy that rhymes 😂😂😂 yes! I'll try to be here more often. It's sooo good to be home.😊 I miss you!!! And wow you! My latest hero was your teacher!😍😍 it must be so awesome to be taught by her.😊 *hugssss*

[silverswirlstudios]

Theresa, are you going to try to go to IAMPETH next summer?  I'm going to try to go!!

Are you a member of a calligraphy guild in ALBQ?  We don't have one here & I wish we did!  I was told that there was one here years ago by Susie-Melissa Cherry in Dallas.  She said that she came to Amarillo to host a workshop for the guild.  I'm sad that it died off!  All that I know of locally are 3 Italic calligraphers and I think that one of them is now retired.

Yes, I'm going to try to go! I am a past president of our local guild, Escribiente. I know several calligraphers in Texas, Janis - surely there must be a guild in your vicinity? Joining a guild is a lot of fun! Hope to meet you next summer!

[ohsoillustrating]

Wow! Her work is drool worthy!! Totally following her now!!!

[Linda Y.]

Just saw this... Barbara did a live lettering performance at TEDxBologna last month (Oct 2014). Pure magic!

[Scarlet Blue]

Thanks Linda! She's superb, isn't she?!

[Roseann]

Yes!
Linda!  Thank you!

[AmyNeub]

Awesome!

You could see her hands shaking (probably from nervousness), but she had beautiful strokes!

I could watch her flourish all day.

[schin]

She is so amazing.. so confident and strong, I wish I can learn that from her!

[Estefa]

I just saw that video now … so awesome. i love watch her writing. Yes, so confident, and she always knows where she is going …

Thanks for posting that, Linda!!

[Brad franklin]

Thanks Linda, loved the video. I will have to check her out.

[tintenfuchs]

She's the awesomest. Thank you, Linda! I was searching for it on TexX but couldn't find anything, didn't cross my mind to check YouTube ... *facepalm*