Wk 30 - Least Favorite - Italic & Pink

wk 30 - Least Favorite - Italic & Pink
Italic is the first hand I learned about 20 years ago... and is my least favorite style of writing and pink my least favorite color... that was hard because I like almost every color depending on my mood and day...
Size: 8"w x 7"h
On Rhodia paper drew my slant lines and nib angle for Italic... Using a Brause nib (no idea what size since I can't read the small stuff...) it's so rare I use real nibs...

words: italic and pink my least favorite hand and color.

Nola's Lettering Challenge - Day 1-6

I came across this challenge and it hit my funny bone... so I decided to play along. I had just finished a Slip Knot bound little booklet and it had the exact amount of pages needed. Serendipity....

Here is the booklet and Days 1 to 6. (it's every 2 days a new funny line of text)

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Workshop Week 2022 - Card - Take Time To Smell

I signed up for the Workshop Week 2022 hosted by Becca Courtice on ZOOM

This artwork was taught by Jillian Kaye "Envelope Art". And again needless to say I didn't use it as intended...

Whimsical Starts Workshop 2022 - WC booklet - Do What Makes You Happy

Whimsical Starts Workshop 2022 - WC booklet - Do What Makes You Happy. I signed up for the 5 days of mini classes/1 artists hosted by Kelly & Yvonne Barone.

It's extremely rare I make something to use in the future... I'm usually someone that creates and works on the project when I think about it.. But I enjoyed making it and painting my pages and I even added 2 quotes.

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Lettering Challenge - April - Day 27 to 31

Lettering Challenge - April - Day 27 to 31 and another month is done...

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Art Of The Fold - Booklet #24 - Happy Valentine

Art Of The Fold - Booklet #24 - Happy Valentine, and 1 finally one for this structure... Thought I'd make a Valentine's card for a friend...

This one is different for the other 4 I've made in the way it opens/closes

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Scribbled Lives 2022 Wk 16 - Benjamin Franklin - The Problem With

Scribbled Lives 2022 Wk 16 - Benjamin Franklin - The Problem With

Still practicing my Italic...

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Misc Lettering Challenge - Floral - April - Day 22 - 26

Misc Lettering Challenge - Floral - April - Day 22 - 26. This time I did a mix of various ink colors, still working with Italic lettering.

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Misc Lettering Challenge - April 2022 - Day 17 - 21

Misc Lettering Challenge - April 2022 - Day 17 - 21

This time I used AlteNew stamps and painted with Derwet Inktense watercolor pencils

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Connie Furgason - Day 4 - Italic Cap Practice

Connie Furgason - Day 4 - Italic Cap Practice. I'm sending this off to Connie for review... I'm telling her to be brutal...I can see errors...

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Scribbled Lives 2022 - April - Wk 15 - Dazzle Of Day - Enough now of the Wet Eyes

Scribbled Lives 2022 - April - Wk 15 - Dazzle Of Day - Enough now of the Wet Eyes.

Since I'm continuing with practicing my Italic... that's the hand I chose to write the quote and since I just took a class with Tamer Ghoniem "Circles On Steroids" hosted by BVCG, I decided to do this portion of the poem in circles... I extremely pleased with the way it turned out and I think my Italic is really improving...

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Circles On Steroids - Always Believe

Last evening the Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild hosted Tamer Ghoniem teaching "Circles On Steroids". I love Tamer's Blackletter work, but since I'm still working with Italic this month I thought I'd do my piece with that hand... Only a slight miscalculation with my circle size - sigh!!

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Misc Lettering Challenge - Apr 2022 - Day 12 - 16

Misc Lettering Challenge - Apr 2022 - Day 12 - 16

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Misc Lettering Challenge - Apr 2022 - Day 6 -11

Misc Lettering Challenge - April 2022 - Day 6 -11 and continuing on with florals and Italic lettering... this time using Penny Black stamps in a watercolor effect.

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Connie Furgason Day 1 Homework Limmericks and Day 2 exercises

Connie Furgason Day 1 Homework Limmericks and Day 2 exercises and we continue trying to determine if our letter and word spacing is ok, counter spacing, everything slanting the same...

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Misc Lettering Challenge - Apr 2022 - Day 1 - 5

Misc Lettering Challenge - Apr 2022 - Day 1 - 5. Since our Guild didn't publish one for April and I'm in a mood to practice my Italic, I decided to create my own and just create flowers with their names... with no rhyme or reason...

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Connie Furgason - Italic Class - Day 1

Connie Furgason - Italic Class - Day 1. As you've probably heard me say, Italic is my least favorite style of lettering... I'm really trying to change my perception of this hand and hoping I'll be able to learn Connie's style... Needless to say - day 1 was basic letter forms...

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Valentine ATC's in a Circle 2022

For Julie Wildman's ATC exchange - deadline January 15, 2022 I decided to go with Valentine's Day... This 1st batch of 5 are done in a circle with some sort of flower in the centers... Don't ask what kind...

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BVCG Nov 2021 Lettering Challenge Day 25 -30

BVCG Nov 2021 Lettering Challenge Day 25 -30 - And another month goes by. They went way too quickly... This time I did a kind of exemplar of more traditional lettering styles...

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Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 42 - Compassion

Scribbled Lives - Wk 42 - Compassion. I mentioned I bought a bunch of deAtrementis Pearlescent inks on the weekend. A friend asked me if they were waterproof. It didn't say on the bottle so I did a little experiment - THEY ARE NOT WATERPROOF... but the result I got, got me thinking in a tangent... BIG GRIN

The one below was the first one I did and when I started reading it to write my post I realized I made a mistake - sigh. So did the one on top next. I'm OK with both but I really like the one below more. love the vertical stripes.

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