art journaling - calligraphy

I remember when I first came to work at the Museum, my boss tested my handwriting skills. Thought that was kinda weird. Found out, I had to "burn" the call numbers onto the spine of all the new books we ordered (yes, I passed with flying colors!)

So here I am, 20+ years later, still with very legible handwriting. I thought, one way to make my art journaling more appealing is to use different calligraphy. Went to dafont.com, at Tammy's suggestion, and copied a bunch of alphabets to play with. At first, I thought Times Roman was going to be hard. Especially, the lowercase letters, like "g". But after a bit of practice, anything is possible.


I think my favorite so far is Hobbiton Brushstroke.

Then there's all different symbols and patterns to play with - you could go on forever, writing.... kinda sounds like me...


I went over to BookMooch, to try and find a calligraphy book, but there's not many around. Almost had one but then the person decided she didn't have the money to ship it. The only thing available was a book on writing Japanese characters. I'm mooching that! Thanks Lee! And if you don't know about BookMooch, and enjoy reading and libraries in general, it's worth your while to go and check it out.

This post is in response to Daisy Yellow's Creative Experiments #15: August! a personal challenge "to practice hand printing the alphabet using fonts as source material..."