This final project was my first for the intermediate class. I used black gauche, a browse nib for the body of the project and the title was written with my favorite Winsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky brush.
Back in those days, I discovered the Pentel acrylic fountain brush but it was expensive and hard to find. In fact, I could only get them through my art instructor and I don’t know exactly where she found them. Now you can buy them in all c olors at Hobby Lobby for a few bucks.
There are several in different colors in my purse and I use them for all kinds of lettering. Peole love to see their names handwritten in calligraphy. But I am so out of practice.
Below: The work of Kingsley Benefield.
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Itiswell
January 6, 2009 at 2:56 am
You do beautiful work my friend. (((hugs)))
Aafke
January 6, 2009 at 5:05 am
Waw, that’s really good calligraphy!
lowandslow1
January 6, 2009 at 7:14 am
Very nice! I barely made it past intermediate crayola. 😉
S
burstmode
January 6, 2009 at 8:07 am
hey, you misspelled…nah, just kidding.
dkpark
January 6, 2009 at 6:01 pm
That is so beautiful!
Shannon
January 7, 2009 at 11:49 am
It is such a beautiful art form. Once upon a time my father (sperm donor) wrote me a lovely letter all in caligraphy.
Eugene
January 7, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Where is Kingsley ?
Eugene
January 7, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Where is Kingsley Benefiled doing today ?
masterharper
January 7, 2009 at 8:48 pm
😉 Good luck on getting your first PERN book by Anne McCaffrey
Pastor Larry aka the Masterharper of Kentucky
Nancy
January 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Awesome job! I once had it in my head that I was going to learn calligraphy but since I have the patience of a gnat…..lol….I didnt stick with it.
wildstorm
January 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Oh you should start right now. Buy a calligraphy marker and start writing letters over and over again. Write write write!
Aafke
January 9, 2009 at 5:11 am
A marker? What’s that?
I have al these different metal nibs, and I usually use the same ink I use for drawing.
Val Erde
March 6, 2011 at 7:04 pm
I love the vertical one.
🙂
Life: Between the lines
March 28, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Nice! Quite creative and enjoyable! 🙂
Dianne
May 22, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Hi….I really love the poem on laughter. I would like to use it in our small newsletter for which the theme this issue is laughter. I see the author is S. West. Is that you. I could not find this poem elsewhere on the internet so I am asking you.
thanks,
Di
anemulligan
November 25, 2014 at 10:21 am
May I use this poster in a blog post about laughter? I will give credit and link to your site here.