I did a monologue last week, so normally this would be an interview week, but I’m leading a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® team building retreat tomorrow for my consultancy, and things are down to the wire, and I decided to do an improvisational podcast instead, because that just takes less time than editing an interview.
So I thought I’d share some learnings from this last weekend, when I taught a calligraphy workshop for the Friends of Calligraphy.
First, some background: [Read more…]
Years ago, when I’d been doing calligraphy for less than two years, and it was still a pretty fresh, new passion for me, I flew back East to meet a friend of mine from the online calligraphy world, Sheryl, and to spend the weekend with her.
Sheryl lived in New Jersey, and she was teaching a workshop that weekend way out on Long Island, for a calligraphy guild called Island Scribes. I’d signed up to be one of the students in the workshop, so we had a long car drive ahead of us, with several joyful hours of uninterrupted conversation.
I don’t remember much about the details our conversation, except that at some point, Sheryl said to me, “You should teach.”
“Yeah,” I said, looking at my hands, “I’d love to teach someday.”
“No,” she said, “you should be teaching now.”
“Now?” I asked, abashed. “I’m not ready to teach yet! What could I possibly teach?”
Without batting an eye, Sheryl said, [Read more…]
Yes, it’s that time again – time for the #15minutesaday creative challenge art check-in!
Above (and the next two images below as well) we have a 4″ x 6″ x 1.5″ canvas, on which I painted Daniel Smith watercolor ground, then, not knowing what else to do, I resorted to ye olde calligrapher’s standby, the alphabet. In Neuland, my “signature” hand, inspired by the typeface designed by Rudolf Koch.
And in brush lettering ’round the edges.
Is it done? Not sure.. It feels a little naked to me, but I haven’t figured out what else it’s calling for.
Meanwhile, its brethren, in blue and yellow watercolor, also probably not finished:
And to finish up, a few random pieces in various stages of process. At the lower left, two 2″ x 2″ and a 2″ x 3″ canvas, painted with watercolor (on top of watercolor ground).
I’m intrigued by the 1″ x 1″ paper tiles, and am contemplating a larger “mosaic” out of these. We’ll see.
That’s it from my end. I’ve spent at least 15 minutes making art every day for the past 23 days.
And you? Are you doing the challenge? How’s it going?
