Want to take your calligraphy skills from practice pages to practical pieces? Keep reading for my best tips for developing your lettering inspiration into finished calligraphy artwork. … More Tips for Creating Your First Calligraphy Art Piece
Centering text is hard. The hints I’m about to share will help you to … More 3 Tips for Centering Text
Are these calligraphy myths preventing you from learning? Think you need beautiful penmanship before you start calligraphy? You don’t. Think you need nice pens and inks to write beautifully? You … More 4 Myths about Being Good at Calligraphy
The aim of this practice is to learn how to write lightly. No matter how hard you’re pressing, the tool will still make a mark. Developing a lighter hand as you write will give you the power to decide the weight of the mark. … More Brush Pen Basics
Why Your New Calligraphy Nib Isn’t Writing (Even Though You’ve Dipped it Into Ink More than 80 Times) It’s not you. And it’s not the nib.
Using a firm pen hold to write hurts after a while. The tension isn’t only the hand either — usually when the writing hand hurts, so do the neck and … More A Better Pen Hold for Better Calligraphy
As calligraphers, we’re often so eager to put the pen to the page that we skip over considering our calligraphy layout. A book I made recently is a prime example … More Calligraphy Layout for Quality Compositions
Here’s a little dry brush calligraphy tutorial I contributed to the Calligraphic Society of Arizona. Our guild created an e-mail series called “Ink-spirations” to keep each other inspired and creative … More Quick Dry Brush Calligraphy Tutorial
“Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.” –Rumi … More Threshold Calligraphy for Yoga Oasis
Item #1 might surprise you. … More Pay Attention to These 4 Things for Better Calligraphy