I like the playfulness and direction of these. It's nice to see your progress and journey. When I was in art school, one of our core classes freshman year was calligraphy. I still have my pens!
Oh wow! That’s super cool. I don’t think Berkeley’s art program (not super big) had anything like that. But I did come out of the school with a deep appreciation for the hand work. Thanks for following along!
Your calligraphy opens wide the doors on this handcraft. Not just lineal, but also spacial going in all direction. Curves and pyramids. That first one looked like flowers. Be careful what letters you cross. Gaslit looked more like gastit. Had me going there for a minute. And you're right, no skill lasts without constant practice. Your posts are always so much fun. Oh, and thanks for the vacuum description.
Yes I’m doing copy paste. I use wordpress on my own site and I have all my drafts there. When it’s ready I select all and paste onto substack.
I then do one last pass through the piece fixing formatting and invariably catching tweaks.
It’s a little annoying to edit two pages at the same time but it’s a small cost to pay for one last final polish—which I suspect happens because I’m seeing the work in a slightly different format.
As such I’m a huge proponent of writing ones pieces in another program, even a word document, and cutting and pasting for the final “test print” right before publishing.
I like the playfulness and direction of these. It's nice to see your progress and journey. When I was in art school, one of our core classes freshman year was calligraphy. I still have my pens!
Oh wow! That’s super cool. I don’t think Berkeley’s art program (not super big) had anything like that. But I did come out of the school with a deep appreciation for the hand work. Thanks for following along!
Your calligraphy opens wide the doors on this handcraft. Not just lineal, but also spacial going in all direction. Curves and pyramids. That first one looked like flowers. Be careful what letters you cross. Gaslit looked more like gastit. Had me going there for a minute. And you're right, no skill lasts without constant practice. Your posts are always so much fun. Oh, and thanks for the vacuum description.
hahahah I do have a habit of crossing my L's by accident! I'll need to fix that tonight. Cheers!
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I loved everything about this post. It's what I needed today. Thanks GPJ.
Thanks! Happy you enjoyed it!
Also, a technical question -- I see you are posting your pieces on your own site. Are you automating this or is it copy paste?
Yes I’m doing copy paste. I use wordpress on my own site and I have all my drafts there. When it’s ready I select all and paste onto substack.
I then do one last pass through the piece fixing formatting and invariably catching tweaks.
It’s a little annoying to edit two pages at the same time but it’s a small cost to pay for one last final polish—which I suspect happens because I’m seeing the work in a slightly different format.
As such I’m a huge proponent of writing ones pieces in another program, even a word document, and cutting and pasting for the final “test print” right before publishing.