Calligraphy Art:

Trust & breathe

Media:

Walnut ink, watercolor, watercolor ground, Ziller ink, pointed pen on paper

Dimensions:

4 7/8″ x 6 5/8″

Creation Notes:

How many times have I gotten out of a situation that felt impossible simply by trusting and breathing?

In the Collection of:

Lisa Fisher

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Calligraphy Art:

Step by step

Media:

Walnut ink, watercolor, watercolor ground, Ziller ink, pointed pen on paper

Dimensions:

3 1/2″ x 9 3/8″

Creation Notes:

Brushing water on top of a dried wash of walnut ink is what created the squares and blobs on this piece. Although at first I was annoyed at the way the paper soaked up the water and distorted my lovely squares, this actually became one of my favorite parts of this piece.

Anything worth doing — whether a work of art or world peace — is accomplished one step at a time, and those steps are rarely as clean or clear as a perfect square. It’s the doing of them that matters.

In the Collection of:

The artist (that’s me!)

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Calligraphy Art:

Breathe Flow Create Grow

Media:

Walnut ink, watercolor, watercolor ground, Ziller ink, brush, pointed pen on paper

Dimensions:

4 7/8″ x 5 1/4″

Creation Notes:

I’ve got more paper in my flat files than I know what to do with. My Creative Sandbox practices gives me a reason to finally use it. This piece started as a full sheet of watercolor paper that I’d painted god knows when with a pale teal wash, probably for some collage project or other.

It took several layers — walnut ink, Ziller ink, watercolor ground (similar to white gesso, but you can paint on it with watercolors), and more walnut and Ziller ink — before some areas I liked started to emerge. Until then, I wondered if the entire sheet was bound for the recycle bin!

Sometimes creating is like that. Which is why it’s important to keep breathing, allow flow to happen. It’s through this creative process that real growth occurs.

In the Collection of:

Jeanne Faith d’Orleans

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